when addiction to opiates — which include illegal drugs such as heroin, as well as prescription painkillers such as morphine and OxyContin — has been called an epidemic. The death rate...
physical addiction remains. A heroin addiction is expensive to... Heroin illegally available on the street has been diluted to a purity of only 2 to 5 percent, being mixed with baking soda...
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5-Minute Listen ; A man in Mount Airy, Md., shakes Suboxone pills from a bottle in late March. ; David Lidz runs the organization Ladders to Leaders in Hagerstown, Md., where he offers both beds and jobs for men transitioning out of drug treatment. ; Lidz runs a group home in Hagerstown, Md., for men who are moving from drug treatment back into daily life. ; Charles Testerman (left) learns from David Gibney how to restore an early 19th century barn in Waynesboro, Pa.
Developments ; A tenured Ivy League professor and addiction researcher says he believes that using drugs like heroin and crack can be no more harmful than drinking alcohol. ; Carl Hart, a psychologist at Columbia and author of the book High Price, argues that destigmatizing and decriminalizing "hard" drugs is key to harm reduction, according to The New Yorker. ; He argues that using drugs like heroin recreationally can be completely safe. In fact, he believes it can be a part of a healthy lifestyle. ; "As we now know from experience with alcohol, drinking itself isn’t a problem for most people who do it," Hart wrote in his book. "The same is true of illegal drugs, even those we have learned to fear, like heroin and crack cocaine."
4-Minute Listen ; Lindsay Bunker woke up from a nightmare. The 32-year-old lives with her sixth-month-old daughter on the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation in northern Wisconsin. She's struggled with addiction for over 10 years, mostly to heroin. Then came the nightmare: She dreamt two men were attacking her baby while she could think only about drugs. "In my mind I was thinking, 'If I can just get one hit, if I can get one line, I can save her,'" she recalls, pausing before continuing, "I woke up and I was panicking. How can a mother thin ...
it with heroin. Jay checked into a £10,000-a-week rehab... one addiction for another”) so he booked a flight to Durban... For centuries it has been used to induce visions in participants...
VANCOUVER -- Addiction to heroin and other opioids is a long-term, chronic disease that can't simply be fixed with a few... The result has been a consistent decline in new HIV cases in B.C....
have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by... relationship with a heroin addict. I guess addiction felt... It has nothing to do but take the drugs. What would happen, he...
heroin overdoses, and I’ve had two near fatal ones. With... my addiction. It’s hard to understand why without being an addict. Even when rock bottom has been hit, a hole in the earth...