Heroin's Cost Doesn't End at Street Level
Heroin's Cost Doesn't End at Street Level
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A Lower Township mother told the Herald she found her adult son using heroin, and in stoic fashion, began planning his funeral, since she knows that is where it will end. … In the 2012 “Substance Abuse Overview 2011 Cape May County” issued by the …
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man accused of stabbing after Facebook argument to seek treatment
Filed under: drug abuse treatment plans
SYCAMORE — The 24-year-old Sycamore man accused of stabbing another man after a political argument over Facebook plans to seek treatment after a judge lowered his bond Tuesday. Judge Robbin Stuckert agreed to reduce Robert A. Church's $ 50,000 bond to …
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The Suicide Epidemic
Filed under: drug abuse treatment plans
And none of this includes the pestilence of suicidal behavior, the thoughts and plans that slowly eat away at people, the corrosive social cost of 25 attempts for every one official death. …. Neither did the lists of more than 100 known “risk factors …
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Painkiller abuse an epidemic
Filed under: drug abuse treatment plans
Painkiller prescriptions are intended to provide relief as a short-term plan, and they should start with a low dose. The long-term solution should be treating the cause of the pain and not medicating it. "The addiction potential really comes in over a …
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