NHS Adviser Calls for Needle Exchanges for Steroid Users
NHS adviser calls for needle exchanges for steroid users Needle exchange centres should be set up all over England to help protect the growing numbers of young people injecting steroids and other performance drugs, say NHS advisers. Heroin addicts are… Continue reading
Drugs, Security, and Latin America: The New Normal?
Drugs, Security, and Latin America: The New Normal? They did it by what I would call single-issue approach to the drug abuse problem. First it was … Now this approach actually made some degree of sense, and I would suggest… Continue reading
US Marijuana Decriminalisation Leads to Surge in Opium Farming in Mexico
... marijuana decriminalisation leads to surge in opium farming in Mexico Once mainly a city phenomenon, the drug has spread – gripping postcard villages in Vermont, middle-class enclaves outside Chicago and other places. Cocaine …. Fresh out of treatment, this… Continue reading
At 21, Recovering Heroin Addict Starts Over
... 21, recovering heroin addict starts over Lewis completed rehab and started taking methadone. But after six months, he says, he realized he'd replaced one addiction with another, so he entered a detox program. He has been sober since Oct.… Continue reading
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment Associated Press. NEW YORK (AP) – As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it – because there are no beds in… Continue reading
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers to Treatment
Heroin Addicts Face Barriers To Treatment In this Monday, March 17, 2014 photograph, Patty DiRenzo looks online at her home in Blackwood, N.J., for people seeking help for drug addiction. DiRenzo, whose son, Salvatore Marchese, overdosed on heroin in 2010,… Continue reading