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Asbury Park heroin user survivor shares his story
ASBURY PARK - There have been plenty of stories about the nation's heroin epidemic, and too often the story ends with a funeral, but News 12’s Kurt... -
Police chief backs heroin ‘fix rooms’
“Fix rooms” for heroin addicts to inject themselves are being considered in the West Midlands under controversial plans intended to steer drug users...Last edited by Joann Miller; 02-13-2018, 11:49 AM. -
Central Mass. hospitals seek pain-fighting Rx, minus opioids
Christopher Hallen of Leicester has chronic lower back pain from being rear-ended by a tractor-trailer seven years ago.
Aware of opiates’ potentially... -
Joann Miller started a topic Eugene drug dealer who sold heroin to overdose victim sentenced to prisonin Heroin NewsEugene drug dealer who sold heroin to overdose victim sentenced to prison
A Eugene man who sold heroin to an acquaintance who died a short time later of a drug overdose was sentenced Tuesday to federal prison. Clint Cheyenne... -
US Postal Service Is Delivering Fentanyl From China
Fentanyl, a drug that is 30 times stronger than heroin and claimed the lives of more than 20,000 Americans last year, is showing up in the mail.
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Joann Miller started a topic Woman Warns Of ‘China White’ After Near-Death Experiencein Heroin NewsWoman Warns Of ‘China White’ After Near-Death Experience
DENVER (CBS4) – Family members of three heroin users believe their loved ones died recently from an overdose of a drug known as China White.
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Joann Miller started a topic Safe injection sites to fight opioid overdose deaths get green light from Philadelphia officialsin Heroin NewsSafe injection sites to fight opioid overdose deaths get green light from Philadelphia officials
After a year in which overdoses outstripped the murder rate by 4-1, librarians ran outside to save people from overdosing, and makeshift heroin camps... -
Man charged with heroin supply and manslaughter after man dies
The PSNI have charged a man in connection with the death of a person whose body was found in Newry. The 51-year-old dead man was found at an address in... -
Joann Miller started a topic Watertown man who supplied lethal dose of heroin will spend 20 years in prison, police sayin Heroin NewsWatertown man who supplied lethal dose of heroin will spend 20 years in prison, police say
JUNEAU, Wis. - Terance Jannke, 50, of Watertown, was sentenced in Dodge County Court Monday to 20 years in prison for supplying a lethal dose of heroin... -
Inside the Story of America’s 19th-Century Opiate Addiction
Doctors then, as now, overprescribed the painkiller to patients in need, and then, as now, government policy had a distinct The man was bleeding, wounded... -
Joann Miller started a topic "The price for him, his life‘: Father warns of fentanyl hazard after son discovered lifeless on Christmas Evein Heroin News"The price for him, his life‘: Father warns of fentanyl hazard after son discovered lifeless on Christmas Eve
It‘s every parent‘s worst nightmare. Larry Hobson‘s 21-year-old son, Jeremy, was found dead on Christmas Eve in what he suspects was an accidental... -
Eight ways doctors can address the opioid epidemic
With addiction to opioids and other pain-relieving medications reaching record levels in the United States, at 2 million in 2015—according to the American... -
Police: Man who died from opioid OD paid dealer's light bill for drugs
LAKE WORTH, Fla. Travis Tekel would fix computers, hack credit cards, pay bills — anything for some heroin caps and a stick of Xanax. The 28-year-old... -
In Berks County, 261 died of heroin or fentanyl overdoses since 2013
Five years ago Thursday, Tina Hoffert lost her only daughter to a heroin overdose, and she has found that time has softened her grief a bit. "I... -
Detoxing from fentanyl’s grip
Often no other drug will do after someone has tried fentanyl, says a Red Deer man undergoing detox.
The 37-year-old, who wanted to be known by...