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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...
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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...“Fix rooms” for heroin addicts to inject themselves are being considered in the West Midlands under controversial plans intended to steer drug users away from tLast edited by Joann Miller; 02-13-2018, 11:49 AM.
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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...Christopher Hallen of Leicester has chronic lower back pain from being rear-ended by a tractor-trailer seven years ago. Aware of opiates' potentially addictive pull, Mr. Hallen said he got off of his prescribed painkillers immediately. He said he didn't want to become an addict and enjoys being able to look his three young children in the eye. Mr. Hallen subsequently tried cortisone injections and various other options, but his most recent minimally invasive procedure resulted in
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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...
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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.
...Jerod Harris 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. A new Senate investigation into the fentanyl trade reveals that the powerful opioid painkiller implicated in the deaths of celebrities including Prince and Tom Petty is making its way to the US from China through the US Postal Service. Here's how. Fentanyl can take many forms. Available legally with a prescription, the drug is often prescribed in patches or injected through an IV. On the street, it typically shows up in pills and may be disguised as another opioid painkiller like oxycodone.
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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...City officials described the sites as a "harm-reduction measure," one part of a larger plan to address a crisis that has now claimed lives at a faster rate than at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The concept is simple: save lives first, then help people in addiction into get into drug treatment and safe housing. - Aubrey Whelan, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 -
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...
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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...
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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...Officials say they're amazed at the scope of the drug crisis and the toll it has taken.
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