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I Lived and Died for Heroin
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“Before coming to Narconon Suncoast , I lived and died for heroin. It was who I had become. I had been using for 8 years and I truly got to the point where I just threw …
Over 600 Dead This Year in Massachusetts
…e has completely deteriorated to the point where finding elephant tranquilizers in batches of heroin and huge fentanyl busts has become the norm. Not only has this year brought opiate addicts to…
What Is an Intervention?
…ntage of addicts nowadays are using high-powered heroin after being addicted to the more expensive painkillers like Oxycontin and Dilaudid. The heroin that exists especially on the east coast of the U…
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic and the Three Waves of Opiate Related Overdoses
… has been heavily attributed to the opioid epidemic, but how did we get here? How did drugs like heroin make such a big comeback and later evolve into even more dangerous street drugs such as fentanyl…
It’s a Fentanyl Crisis: Pills are Yesterday’s News
…g. While it all started with painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin , it quickly shifted to heroin and then to fentanyl . The issue with fentanyl seemed to grow slowly then exploded. While addi…
Move Over Heroin, Here Comes Meth
…currently the motto of the United States. Drug use is off the charts and heroin isn’t the only problem. Of course, heroin and Fentanyl make all the news because of how deadly they are and a numb…
Methadone: Signs and Symptoms of Abuse…#3 in a 3 Part Series on Methadone
…ying to get high. Methadone has been used for many years as a “detox” drug to get addicts off of heroin and other opiates. Unfortunately, the old adage “A drug is a drug is a drug” certainly applies. …
Grey Death… A New, Deadly Drug With Its Sights on Florida
…ars, Florida has been one of the epicenters of the heroin and opiate epidemic and this year has seen enough of its share of deadly drugs. With heroin related deaths on the rise, Florida is not without…
DEA Considers Fentanyl to Have ‘No Medical Use’
…anted to get their fix. When you’re a heroin user, you never quite know what you’re getting, and you honestly don’t really care. Sometimes, you might get heroin . Other times, you get a bunch of cru…
Unused Medications… One of the Real Causes of the Opiate Epidemic
… heroin use completely out of control in this country, many of us have lost track of where it came from in the first place. It seems like our country has rolled over and accepted that the heroin pr…
