Heroin and Painkiller Deaths Require Public Health Policies

Published February 17, 2014

Heroin and Painkiller Deaths Require Public Health Policies
Prescription opioids are the most common cause of overdose deaths in the U.S. And now, according to data published in the New England Journal of Medicine, opioid pill users are transitioning to heroin following the manufacturers' replacement of …
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Prison manager 'had a two-year affair with Curtis Warren, Britain's biggest …
After finally conquering her addiction at a clinic in England, she became a drugs counsellor and worked in Somerset before managing a rehabilitation unit in Jersey. She gave that up in 2002 to work full time at La Moye, a mixed prison housing around …
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Satel: What Philip Seymour Hoffman can teach us about breaking the cycle of …
"The problem of doctors prescribing addictive analgesics to patients with known or suspected addiction will be solved," Lembke wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine, when addiction treatment is "financially compensated on a par with care for …
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Hoffman Overdose Highlights the Dangers of Heroin
Ostermann says Emily started abusing prescription drugs in June of 2013 and by December she was dead. But Ostermann believed Emily was getting better, having successfully finished a stint in rehab. "I had no idea that she was slumped behind her door …
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