The New Face of Heroin Addiction

Published December 15, 2012

The New Face of Heroin Addiction – Ashley, a suburban heroin junkie, smokes up to 100 hits of heroin a day.

OxyContin use down in Vt. but heroin use increases

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WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — Efforts to make OxyContin harder to abuse have succeeded in Vermont, the top state police drug investigator says, but one notable result has been addicts switching to an older scourge: heroin. Lt. Matt Birmingham, head of the …
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Will County Experts: Heroin Has Become a Public Health Crisis

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Now Will County is on track to have 48 deaths from heroin overdoses in 2012. It's a heroin epidemic, Will County officials said. A public health crisis. Heroin is in your community. It's readily available. It's very powerful, very addictive and …
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Heroin getting a fix on Cape Flats

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A heroin addict who came to a police and Sance anti drug exhibition, to seek help, shows her bruises an needle tracks from injecting heroin. Picture. Etienne Creux. Cape Town – Intravenous heroin use is becoming more and more popular on the Cape Flats, …
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