Heroin at Home: A Community Discussion
Heroin at Home: A Community Discussion — Heroin and opiate use in Minnesota has recently hit some all-time highs. As heroin and opiates dealt throughout the state become more pure there is an alarmi…
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There was a 28 per cent increase in the number of overdose deaths as a result of polydrug use, from 168 in 2010 to 215 in 2011. The drugs most implicated in polydrug use were alcohol, methadone, antidepressants and benzodiazepines, which are sedatives …
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Fighting addiction with a pill has potential for abuse, officials say
In 2000, Congress relaxed rules governing the prescribing of opioids to treat addictions to heroin or prescription painkillers, creating a key distinction between methadone, which has been used to treat heroin addiction since the 1960s, and buprenorphine.
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