Heroin-Addicted Asylum Seeker Avoids Transfer

Heroin-addicted asylum seeker avoids transfer
Mr Lenihan said once RIA was made aware of the man's methadone dependency they agreed to place a stay on his transfer until suitable medical treatment can be organised and his medical files transferred, and that when he is eventually transferred it …
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Heroin addicts who want help face insurance denials
"A lot of these heroin users now have families, and the insurers aren't looking at them the same way as someone who's homeless or living in a drug house," said Robert Lebman, president of Huther Doyle, an addiction treatment center in Rochester, N.Y …
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“I Felt Like an Old Fool”:
I spent a lot of time on the phone dealing with opioid withdrawal symptoms that developed over the next month. I was otherwise … Several had been forced to go to the local methadone clinic and lie about being addicted, just to get pain medication …
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