‘Plagued With a Scourge’: Opioid Abuse Worries Neighboring Middlesex … – Wicked Local Stoneham

‘Plagued with a scourge’: Opioid abuse worries neighboring Middlesex … – Wicked Local Stoneham

'Plagued with a scourge': Opioid abuse worries neighboring Middlesex
Wicked Local Stoneham
Funaoile described opioids as "drugs made from opium, either natural or manufactured." This includes heroin, morphine, codeine, methadone, oxycodone (OxyCotin, Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin), and Fentanyl. "People feel relaxed, feelings of euphoria, …

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Heroin ‘filled the hole’: For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to … – Omaha World-Herald

Heroin 'filled the hole': For kid from suburbs, pot was first stop on road to
Omaha World-Herald
Lewis completed rehab and started taking methadone. But after six months, he said, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been sober since Oct. 12. Lewis attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings and …
New state regulations make heroin treatment challengingTaunton Daily Gazette

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Protesters call for more services for addicted Islanders – The Guardian Charlottetown

Protesters call for more services for addicted Islanders
The Guardian Charlottetown
'Save our kids on P.E.I.,' one sign read. 'Recovery, not rhetoric,' said another. People with tragic stories … “I'm so proud of him, and he's even off the methadone now,” she said to cheers from the crowd. “Please help our children.” Greg MacKinnon

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Disease of the mind – Ledger Independent

Disease of the mind
Ledger Independent
Learning not to enable her daughter, by cutting off money and materials the girl had been converting into drugs, was part of the recovery process for both of them. “I could not believe … On March 15, 2012, she died of a methadone overdose, Whitehead

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HIV/AIDS explodes in Russia as Putin eschews “western” science – AMERICAblog (blog)

HIV/AIDS explodes in Russia as Putin eschews “western” science
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[Methadone user Sergei] Kislov, who voted for his region to join Russia, accused Moscow of “abandoning” Crimea's recovering addicts and “forcing them to fend for themselves, even if that means we'll end up stealing again and going to jail.” To avoid …

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