Choking to Death: Should We Stop Sending Women to Prison?
Choking to death: should we stop sending women to prison?
By her second jail sentence, at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey in early 2013, she'd been taught how to “load up” with drug-filled condoms before her court date and how to avoid being “decrotched”: “when someone watches the cell door and they use a spoon to …
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The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction
… were partly a symptom of withdrawal: he hadn't had a fix in 14 hours. But he was also crying out of fear that he wouldn't be accepted into the drug treatment program at California's Palo Alto VA Hospital." … There, doctors and nurses used the …
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Opiate replacement therapy is bunk, methadone is heroin anyway. — Methadone is a synthetic heroin and used as a maintenance drug for heroin addicts in treatment. I’m here to tell you that does not work and never will but I …