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Far from being a glamorous addiction, heroin is a volatile and dangerous drug which causes countless problems in the lives of many. With the increase in the numbers reported by drug treatment centers, heroin addiction is becoming an epidemic and happens to anyone, regardless of age, gender, faith or socioeconomic status. The addiction has the propensity to ruin lives and is one of the most difficult forms of substance abuse to beat.

Heroin is a drug responsible for one out of every ten suicides, either by someone having an addiction or because of the drug being used indirectly. With the many statistics available it can be surprising that the drug is still one of the most common of all new addictions and people continue abusing and using at record rates. People use drugs for a variety of different reasons, but the first time someone uses heroin, an addiction takes hold and more of the drug must be used to avoid withdrawal symptoms from happening.    Read more...

Trial Date Set in Case of Tosa Teenager's Heroin Death
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Alex, a heroin addict who had been clean for six months, had been expected at her first day on the job at Outpost Natural Foods that morning. When she did not arrive, Outpost managers called her mother, Christa Lewis. Lewis was out of town and in turn …
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Prescription drug abuse, deaths target of new Washington law
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He's one of thousands of Washington citizens who have gotten addicted to narcotic pain medications over the last decade. One doctor called the pain meds, which go by names such as Vicodin, Percoset and OxyContin, just a “fancy form of heroin. …
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The cure for oxycodone addiction can be deadly
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Meridian says it keeps a tight rein on the methadone it dispenses to its patients to treat oxycodone addiction. And studies have shown that methadone deaths are rarely traced to treatment programs, said Sara Mihlfeld, director of Meridian's opioid …
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Motley Crue Discuss Heroin Addiction, Jack Daniels With 'Piers Morgan'
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Video clips from Friday's Motley Crue appearance on CNN's 'Piers Morgan Tonight' have surfaced online, showing the band in fine form as they discuss a wide variety of topics, from heroin addiction and an incident that somehow involved IVing Jack …
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Authorities: Heroin making deadly comeback in Iowa
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Dave Barloon, a nurse practitioner with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Chemical Dependency unit in Iowa City, said heroin addiction is difficult to treat because there's no real treatment for the physical symptoms and there's a lack of …
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Drug Rehab Texas: Botulism turning up in King County heroin, health department says
Texas has reported four similar cases among injection drug users since Aug. 26. No link between the King County and Texas cases has been identified. “There is no way for a person on the street to tell if black tar heroin is contaminated, nor any way to …
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Drug Rehab Texas: Why Drug Legalization Just Won't Happen
Consider that $ 48.7 billion in 2008 was the cost of drug prohibition; $ 6.5 billion spent from 2000-2005 to disrupt international drug trafficking; $ 6.2 billion in 2007 to imprison drug offenders; $ 3.4 billion in 2009 spent on drug treatment and …
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Addiction To Opiates: Progress seen in fight on heroin
(Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff/File) By Kay Lazar Deaths from heroin and opiate abuse plunged in Boston after the city launched a controversial program in 2006 that supplies addicts with medicine to reverse their overdose, according to a report to be …
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Addiction To Opiates: Methadone – My opiate addiction history.wmv

This video I talk about my own personal addiction to opiates (painkillers and heroin) and what led up to my enrolling in the methadone treatment program. I tried to be as breif as I could, but it’s hard to list an entire history of opiate use in a ten minute video. I apologize if I left out any important stuff.

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