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    Experts Say Attack On Hunter Biden's Addiction Deepens Stigma For Millions

    Oct 16, 2020
    President Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. called Biden "a crackhead." Researchers say that kind of humiliation puts many Americans with addiction at risk. Most people never get help because of shame.
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    Emily Ligawiec (right) and Officer Jon Cacela take weekly pottery classes together in Ware, Mass. Rather than arrest Ligawiec last winter when she took heroin and stole her mom's car, he offered her help.
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    Police Offering Drug Recovery Help: 'We Can't Arrest Our Way Out Of This Problem'

    Feb 08, 2020
    Police departments are toning down the law enforcement, and offering drug users recovery help instead. But convincing drug users to accept the help is not easy.
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    Their faces covered, addicted women are photographed at a drug treatment center in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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    Women And Children Are The Emerging Face Of Drug Addiction In Afghanistan

    Oct 29, 2019
    A growing number of women and children are becoming entangled in drugs as the country's number of addicts aggressively grows.
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    Washoe County Anti-Overdose Program Focuses On Jail Inmates

    Feb 06, 2019

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's Washoe County says it's trying to boost the state's efforts to reduce deaths from opioid overdoes by providing jail inmates with overdose education and anti-overdose drugs as they are released.

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    Keri Blakinger spent nearly two years incarcerated on narcotics charges before becoming a criminal justice reporter for the <em>Houston Chronicle. </em>
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    From Convict To Criminal Justice Reporter: 'I Was So Lucky To Come Out Of This'

    Dec 12, 2018
    Keri Blakinger spent nearly two years locked up on narcotics charges before becoming a journalist. "I've been so privileged in so many ways to end up with hope and second chances," she says.
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    Ed Rendell, former governor of Pennsylvania, has taken a strong stand on supervised injection sites.
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    'Come And Arrest Me': Former Pa. Governor Defies Justice Department On Safe Injection

    Oct 10, 2018
    A nonprofit in Philadelphia is making plans to open a supervised drug injection site — which is against the law. Their response to justice department threats of a crackdown? "Bring it on."
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    Insite's clinic coordinator, Tim Gauthier, demonstrates how staff respond to an overdose in the main injection room. No one has ever died in here or any other injection site.
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    What's The Evidence That Supervised Drug Injection Sites Save Lives?

    Sep 07, 2018
    Proposals in several cities to offer drug users access to a safe space to consume drugs have caused a political stir, but what do we really know about the effectiveness of safe injection sites?
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    Victoria gave birth to her daughter Lili while in treatment for opioid dependency.
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    Babies Born Dependent On Opioids Need Touch, Not Tech

    Aug 16, 2018
    A pediatrician is working to make sure every hospital in Kansas can give babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome the soft start they need, ideally right next to their mothers.
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    A New Hope To Defeat Opioid Addiction

    Jul 24, 2018

    Legally prescribed painkillers such as oxycodone, or street drugs like heroin, are a major cause of death in Nevada.

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    Report: Nevada's Death Rate From Meth, Stimulants Leads US

    Apr 09, 2018

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new report indicates Nevada's amphetamine death rate is highest in the nation and soon will eclipse the state's prescription opioid death rate if current trends continue.

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    Eldred, at home with her dog, Bubbles, says she's committed to her recovery from opioid addiction. "But," she adds, "I can't say that I won't ever relapse again. Right now I feel strong, but this is a lifelong journey."
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    Court To Rule On Whether Relapse By An Addicted Opioid User Should Be A Crime

    Oct 26, 2017
    The high court in Massachusetts is weighing legal and scientific evidence to decide whether a woman convicted of larceny violated the terms of her probation by relapsing into drug use.
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    The meth lunches

    Jul 01, 2017

    The care and feeding of a drug addict

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    Will School For Addicted Students Work In CCSD?

    Jun 16, 2017

    It’s no surprise to Nevada residents, that drug addiction is a big problem in this state.

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    Opana ER, a potent extended-release opioid, was approved by the FDA for pain management in 2006. But the agency says Endo's attempts to reformulate the pills to make them harder to crush, dissolve and inject have not been successful.
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    FDA Calls On Drugmaker To Pull A Powerful Opioid Off The Market

    Jun 08, 2017
    The Food and Drug Administration says abuse of the painkiller Opana ER has fueled an outbreak of HIV, hepatitis C and a serious blood disorder, though it was reformulated to try to reduce abuse.
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    CCSD Considers High School For Recovering Addicts

    May 24, 2017

    Officials with the Clark County School District are proposing to open a school for students overcoming drug addiction.

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    Michael Botticelli, former director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on attacking America's epidemic of heroin and prescription drug abuse.
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    Former Drug Czar Says GOP Health Bill Would Cut Access To Addiction Treatment

    Mar 15, 2017
    The director of National Drug Control Policy under President Obama, Michael Botticelli, says the proposed GOP health bill would decrease access to treatment in the middle of an opioid crisis.
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    A Peer Recovery Coach Walks The Front Lines Of America's Opioid Epidemic

    Dec 27, 2016
    Charlie Oen was addicted to heroin as a teenager. At 25, he's now clean and a peer counselor in Lima, Ohio, where he tries to help people who started using drugs before he was born.
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    Jill and Glenn Martin's son Joey died of an opioid overdose while living in a group home. He was 22.
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    A Small Town Struggles With A Boom In Sober Living Homes

    Aug 22, 2016
    Prescott, Ariz., has become a destination of choice for people trying to get sober, with growing numbers of group homes for recovering addicts. Some residents are calling for regulation of the homes.
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    Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who has been covering addiction and drug related issues for nearly 30 years. She writes a column for <em>Vice</em> and has been a health reporter and columnist for <em>Time </em>magazine<em>.</em>
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    'Unbroken Brain' Explains Why 'Tough' Treatment Doesn't Help Drug Addicts

    Jul 07, 2016
    "We have this idea that if we are just cruel enough and mean enough ... to people with addiction, that they will suddenly wake up and stop, and that is not the case," journalist Maia Szalavitz says.
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    Dr. Craig Smith works with counselor Catherine Bell to provide medication-assisted treatment at North Bridgton Family Practice.
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    A Small Town Bands Together To Provide Opioid Addiction Treatment

    Jun 22, 2016
    After four or five of his patients died from opioid overdoses in one month, Craig Smith, a family doctor in Bridgton, Maine, realized he couldn't wait for someone else to offer addiction treatment.
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    The FDA is is expected to decide by May 27 whether a long-acting, implantable version of this anti-addiction drug, buprinorphine, will be available in the United States. The implant is more convenient, proponents say, and less likely to be abused.
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    FDA Considering Pricey Implant As Treatment For Opioid Addiction

    May 20, 2016
    The FDA could soon approve an implantable form of a drug used to treat opioid addiction. While the approach helped patients avoid relapse in tests, its price may be prohibitive for some, doctors say.
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    Carolyn Rossi, a registered nurse at the Hospital of Central Connecticut, says the opioid epidemic has required nurses who used to specialize in care for infants gain insights into caring for addicted mothers, as well.
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    To Help Newborns Dependent On Opioids, Hospitals Rethink Mom's Role

    Mar 26, 2016
    When a woman addicted to opioids gives birth, she is too often dismissed as an obstacle to her infant's health. A Connecticut hospital is challenging that attitude — and the culture of care.
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    New Painkiller Rules Postponed: CDC Mystery Or Politics?

    Jan 12, 2016

    Addiction to painkillers, the kind that are prescribed such as oxycontin, or illegal, such as heroin, is on the rise in the United States.

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