I am a heroin addict. What can I do to get help?

I am a heroin addict. What can I do to get help? – Mike and Greg share ways they fight to stay sober.

from Anonymous's PR to federal target

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Complicating matters further, as a recovering heroin addict, Brown was taking Suboxone, a prescription drug used to treat opiate withdrawal. This was having an impact on his health, perhaps amplified by the cyclone of drama engulfing him. One day in …
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Hospital conducts disaster drill

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They ranged from head and leg injuries to a heroin addict going through withdrawal. “It will help the community because we will be that much more prepared to handle a situation like this,” said Schlifke. Nurse Manager Jeanette Hughes said, “It …
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Gimme Shelter: De Quincey on Drugs

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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, opium has been better known in the form of one of its chief derivatives: heroin. A toothache in the autumn of 1804, De Quincey claimed, induced him to try the drug. Its effects were astonishing … In the …
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A closer look at jail deaths

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A federal lawsuit was filed after Andrea Armstead, 21, died Nov. 8, 2011, while going through heroin withdrawal in the Kalamazoo County (Mich.) jail. Armstead, who told officers she was withdrawing from heroin, convulsed, collapsed and lost consciousness.
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