Making Noise in the Heroin Battle
Making noise in the heroin battle
On March 15, 2012, after an ongoing struggle with drugs her daughter and son-in-law had been having, since getting addicted to diet drugs and a later pain pills and cocaine, Whitehead learned her daughter died of a methadone overdose. While traveling …
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Banbury death was drug related
Mr Quartermaine had been heroin dependent since 2004 and had a methadone prescription since 2007. The court heard how … Assistant coroner Nicholas Graham said: “My formal conclusion is that the death was drug related following an opiate overdose.”.
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Canada Blocking UN Support for Harm Reduction: Observers
Ottawa's efforts to block UN support for harm reduction — a suite of health interventions including needle exchanges, methadone therapy and overdose prevention — flies in the face of health policies widely adopted in Canada, MacPherson said in an …
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Heroin deaths on the rise in region
On average, one person dies every day in Connecticut from an overdose involving some sort of opioid, such as oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, tramadol, morphine, and methadone. The use of heroin in Connecticut has grown as availability of opioid …
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