Jury Convicts Tenants Harbor Man of Murder in Drug Dispute With Friend

Jury convicts Tenants Harbor man of murder in drug dispute with friend
He said Kierstead was too intoxicated and suffering from years of opiate addiction and — on the day of the shooting — from opiate withdrawal to have formed the intent to kill the man who had been providing him drugs for more than a decade. Peterson …
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Infant drug dependency is a troubling epidemic
Another issue raised by Publicker is the two-year cap on methadone and buprenorphine treatment for Medicaid patients. Methadone and buprenorphine are used to treat opiate addiction, and they can be given to pregnant women to help them cope with their …
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New Drug That's As Addictive As Heroin And Perfectly Legal
According to Peter Gannon, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who helped treat Carrie, detoxing from kratom is in fact similar to kicking heroin. “You'll go through an opiate type of withdrawal, where you'll have nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, chills, and …
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