Heroin a Killer That Crosses All Lines
Heroin a killer that crosses all lines
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“The statistics aren't getting better,” he said. With an estimate of roughly 40,000 instances of heroin use by those age 12 and older in the past year, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ranks Pennsylvania as having …
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Tracking overdose 'epidemic' is difficult
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WALLINGFORD — Four years after a Brown University researcher found a spike in the number of deaths caused by drug overdoses in Wallingford, some advocates have referred to substance abuse as an “epidemic” plaguing local teens and young adults. But …
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Sentencing for drug offences
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?ubomír Okruhlica, the Health Ministry's chief expert on medicine and drug addiction, who is also head of the Bratislava-based Centre for Treatment of Drug Dependencies, says current Slovak laws are too strict for those whose activities do not threaten …
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Kentucky babies victims of alarming health statistics
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Corbin, Ky. Independence House: Corbin, Ky. Independence House residents and director Mary Burnette discuss treatment for substance abuse among mothers, the rewards and difficulties. Corbin, Ky. Independence House. Grace House resident Heaven …
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