18 Investigates: Heroin in the Heartland, Part 2 – WLFI.com
18 Investigates: Heroin in the Heartland, Part 2 – WLFI.com
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18 Investigates: Heroin in the Heartland, Part 2
WLFI.com "Just the whole stigma with drugs and people who use drugs, I guess looking back on it, I considered myself better than that." Twenty-nine-year-old Shawn Ruppert grew up in a … She died of a methadone overdose." As Ruppert and Oertel grew up their … |
Bitter Pills series: Prescription oversight lax as overdoses tick up – Fayetteville Observer
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Bitter Pills series: Prescription oversight lax as overdoses tick up
Fayetteville Observer Landers said he walked out of Gootman's clinic once a month for about five months with a prescription for 90 Percocet pills and 90 methadone, a narcotic used to treat pain or to wean people off other opiates. Landers would keep the Percocet, sell the … |
Police, physicians point fingers in painkiller epidemic – WRAL.com
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Police, physicians point fingers in painkiller epidemic
WRAL.com Landers said he walked out of Gootman's clinic once a month for about five months with a prescription for 90 Percocet pills and 90 methadone, a narcotic used to treat pain or to wean people off other opiates. Landers would keep the Percocet, sell the … |
Puerto Rico’s ignored public health crisis: ‘I’ve lost a lot of friends to drugs’ – The Guardian
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Puerto Rico's ignored public health crisis: 'I've lost a lot of friends to drugs'
The Guardian The government's own survey estimates a treatment gap of 92%, with only a small portion of the drug using population receiving detoxification services like methadone treatment. Univision video: Puerto Rico – intravenous drug use and HIV There isn't … |
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