Heroin: 'There'S Nothing Not to Like About It Until It Grabs Your Soul'

Heroin: 'There's nothing not to like about it until it grabs your soul'

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Here's what people don't understand, he said: hydrocodone, oxycodone, oxycontin and heroin are all the same drug. And addiction doesn't discriminate, it affects people of all demographics and backgrounds: “It doesn't matter how smart you are, how rich …
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Doctors Say Abuse of Painkillers Likely to Grow Worse

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An epidemic of prescription drug abuse and overdoses is likely to grow worse until there are fundamental changes in the way physicians treat pain, according to a Viewpoint article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “There is …
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2 arrested in undercover heroin sting

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Kelli D. Kinder, 20, of 915 Beech St., Middletown, was arrested on charges of complicity to trafficking in drugs, permitting drug abuse, failure to comply with a police officer, resisting arrest and vandalism. “It appears heroin has become the drug of …
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