Girlfriend's Fentanyl OD a Wake-Up Call for Ottawa Man
Girlfriend's fentanyl OD a wake-up call for Ottawa man
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Beyond the normal problems associated with consuming or injecting opiates — including the serious addiction and the painful withdrawal — fentanyl had another issue that has been a wake-up call for police, health officials and treatment groups in …
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Children's hospital staff, volunteers combat rise in babies addicted to …
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Seven of the babies are also suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), the withdrawal process for an infant born addicted to drugs. Comforting the child could take minutes — or hours. The number of infants born hooked on opiates has grown by …
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Russia nets major drug haul in 2012
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Moscow is continuing efforts to halt heroin shipments from Afghanistan, where US-led forces are preparing for withdrawal. "We seized 106 tons of drugs last year, which was 70% more than the year before,” the service head Viktor Ivanov told reporters on …
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Keeping the Internet free
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Liquid methadone, used for decades to help addicts abate withdrawal symptoms as they quit heroin or other opiates, is leaking into illegal street sales via take-home doses, according to law-enforcement officials in Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and West …
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