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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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    Supporters of safe injection sites in Philadelphia rallied outside this week's federal hearing. The judge's ultimate ruling will determine if the proposed "Safehouse" facility to prevent deaths from opioid overdose would violate the federal Controlled Su
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    Trump Administration Is In Court To Block Nation's First Supervised Injection Site

    Sep 06, 2019
    Efforts to combat Philadelphia's opioid crisis with a supervised injection site could be stymied by a portion of federal law meant to protect neighborhoods during the crack epidemic of the 1980s.
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    Shots - Health News
    Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, picked up in a 2016 New York City drug bust. "Basically, [fentanyl] is so cheap to produce and it's so powerful, that drug dealers began realizing it was a way to increase their profits," <em>Fentanyl, Inc. </em>
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    Fentanyl As A Dark Web Profit Center, From Chinese Labs To U.S. Streets

    Sep 04, 2019
    Fentanyl, Inc. author Ben Westhoff says the opioid, while useful in hospitals, is killing more Americans as a street drug than any other in U.S. history. Here's how it moves from China to your corner.
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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that most new heroin addicts first became hooked on prescription painkillers, such as oxycodone, before graduating to heroin, which is cheaper.
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    Tales Of Corporate Painkiller Pushing: 'The Death Rates Just Soared'

    Aug 22, 2019
    Washington Post journalist Scott Higham says recently released evidence shows the drug industry purposely shipped big quantities of opioids to communities without regard for how they were being used.
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    A rock of crystal methamphetamine lifted from a suspect in Orange County, Calif. This fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects to begin collecting more local information about the rising use of meth, cocaine and other stimulants.
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    Seizures Of Methamphetamine Are Surging In The U.S.

    Jul 29, 2019
    The amount of meth seized in the U.S. more than doubled from 2017 to 2018. That translates to lots more meth, along with cocaine and other stimulants, on the streets — and likely more deaths.
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    The Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center in Plymouth houses men for court-mandated addiction treatment.
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    Prison For Forced Addiction Treatment? A Parent's 'Last Resort' Has Consequences

    Apr 20, 2019
    Thousands of Massachusetts residents have been committed to treatment for addiction against their will. Some families say locking up addicts in prison isn't treatment. Others say it saves lives.
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    U.S. Attorney William McSwain and colleagues announced a civil lawsuit Wednesday in Philadelphia against the nonprofit Safehouse. "We have a responsibility to step in," McSwain says, though he adds, "We're not bringing a criminal case right now."
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    U.S. Prosecutors Sue To Stop Nation's First Supervised Injection Site For Opioids

    Feb 06, 2019

    The U.S. government is intervening to stop the creation of a medical facility in Philadelphia where people could inject heroin without risk of overdose. Canada and Europe already have such sites.

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    The initial test for hepatitis C is an inexpensive blood test to check for antibodies that indicate the person's been exposed to the virus. If that antibody test is positive, a second test is done to see if the virus is circulating in the bloodstream —
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    Why Aren't More Users Of Opioids Or Meth Screened For Hepatitis C?

    Dec 19, 2018
    As the number of people who inject drugs and share needles has soared, the rate of infection with hep C has climbed, too. Yet many drug treatment patients aren't tested for the liver-damaging virus.
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    The 2016 viral photo of a couple passed out in a car while a child sits in the back seat triggered a painful moment of self-reflection in East Liverpool, Ohio. The community took steps to address its addiction problem, but progress has been spotty.
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    'Nowhere To Go But Up ' — A Small Town Confronts Its Addiction Crisis

    Dec 15, 2018
    Two years after East Liverpool, Ohio, gained notoriety from a viral photo of an overdosed couple, the community is coming to terms with its addiction problem — and taking tentative steps forward.
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    Shots - Health News
    A highly potent synthetic opioid, fentanyl is often mixed in to other drugs sold on the street, including pills, heroin and even cocaine.
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    Fentanyl Surpasses Heroin As Drug Most Often Involved In Deadly Overdoses

    Dec 12, 2018
    When fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, infiltrated the drug supply in the U.S. it had an immediate, dramatic effect on the overdose rate.
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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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    Anthony Dooley, 32, successfully graduated from an addiction recovery program recently. He credits Cox's team with visiting him in the hospital and walking him through his options.
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    Knocking On Doors To Get Opioid Overdose Survivors Into Treatment

    Oct 24, 2018
    Within days of an OD from opioids or other drugs, users in Huntington, W.Va., are visited by a quick-response team at home, the hospital or in jail. Reversing an OD is just recovery's first step.
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    Suboxone, a medicine to treat opioid addiction, helps people struggling with substance abuse by blocking their cravings and physical withdrawal symptoms.
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    Addiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Market For Suboxone

    Oct 05, 2018
    This medicine to treat opioid addiction is hard to come by — only a fraction of doctors can prescribe it. So some people trying to quit a heroin habit are turning to the black market for help.
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    A visitor to the Harvard School of Public Health's mock safe injection site checks out the items on the demonstration table set up underneath a tent on the quad near the medical school in Boston on April 30, 2018.
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    Justice Department Promises Crackdown On Supervised Injection Sites

    Aug 30, 2018
    A standoff is heating up between the Trump administration and local leaders who are trying to open facilities where people can use opioids under the eye of medical staff.
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    Dispatches From A 'Dopesick' America

    Aug 21, 2018
    Author Beth Macy details opioids' odyssey from medicine to scourge, in her book about young heroin users, their long-suffering parents, doctors, drug company executives, cops, judges and drug dealers.
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    Elko Drug Probe Nets Arrests, One-Quarter Pound Of Heroin

    Aug 15, 2018

    ELKO, Nev. (AP) — A month-long investigation into illegal drug trafficking in northeast Nevada has netted a quarter-pound (110 grams) of heroin and at least four arrests in Elko.

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    At safe injection sites like Insite, in Vancouver, Canada, drug users can inject drugs under the watch of trained medical staff who will help in case of overdose.
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    Cities Planning Supervised Drug Injection Sites Fear Justice Department Reaction

    Jul 12, 2018
    More than a dozen cities from San Francisco to New York are trying to open safe injection sites for heroin users. But worries about a crackdown from the Justice Department have local leaders on edge.
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    Kelly Zimmerman says she'd like to find a home for herself and her toddler — so she doesn't have to depend on her parents so much — but that may not happen soon. She still has financial debt from her years of addiction.
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    Beyond Opioids: How A Family Came Together To Stay Together

    Jun 19, 2018
    Infants do better with their parents, studies find, as long as parents have support to get and stay sober. This program starts during pregnancy, to rally and train a strong family support network.
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    Arlington, Mass., Police Chief Fred Ryan (right) and Inspector Gina Bassett review toxicology reports on cocaine evidence looking for the possibility of fentanyl.
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    Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Becoming A Deadly Problem Among Drug Users

    Mar 29, 2018
    The powerful opioid fentanyl is showing up in batches of cocaine, threatening a new wave of opioid overdoses. Some doctors, drug users and law enforcement wonder if the contamination is deliberate.
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    A young man uses heroin under a bridge in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, a neighborhood that has become a hub for heroin use. The economic costs of the epidemic are mounting, researchers say, as the U.S. loses more and more workers in their prim
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    Cost Of U.S. Opioid Epidemic Since 2001 Is $1 Trillion And Climbing

    Feb 13, 2018

    Economists tracking federal mortality data say the opioid crisis is undercutting the productivity of people in their prime working years — 30s and 40s.

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    Parallels
    Isai Bello grew up in the U.S. states of Nevada and California and later lived in South Carolina. When he moved back to his family's home state of Guerrero, Mexico, joining the military was the best way to make a clean living, he says. He earns about $30
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    On The Hunt For Poppies In Mexico — America's Biggest Heroin Supplier

    Jan 14, 2018

    The Mexican army gave NPR a firsthand look at its efforts to eradicate the flowering crop that's made into heroin.

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    The mix of people in rows of tents under a bridge in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood includes homeless adults and some visitors from the suburbs who come here to inject opioids in secret.
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    Desperate Cities Consider 'Safe Injection' Sites For Opioid Users

    Jan 10, 2018
    Opioids were a main driver in roughly 1,200 drug overdose deaths in Philadelphia last year. That's four times the city's murder rate. It's time, some officials say, to supervise, not criminalize.
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    The rising number of opioid-linked deaths led Arizona to declare a public health emergency in 2017. Needle exchange programs are not explicitly permitted in Arizona, but one such service operates underground, giving out clean needles and naloxone, a medi
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    Fight The Opioid Epidemic, All Agree. But Strategies Vary Widely

    Dec 19, 2017
    Officials across Arizona agree that the state must solve its growing opioid problem. But some people fear that several strategies under consideration encourage drug use.
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    The shelter at Houston's Convention Center, seen here Aug. 29, isn't equipped to provide medication-assisted treatment for opioid abuse.
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    Houston Methadone Clinics Reopen After Harvey's Flooding

    Sep 06, 2017
    Hurricane Harvey disrupted treatment for people addicted to opioids. Many need to get connected to a specialty clinic that can provide medication-assisted treatment.
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    A vaccine against heroin wouldn't be like the measles vaccine that you receive once for a lifetime of immunity, say scientists working on it. Multiple shots per year would likely be required, and it would be specific to just heroin and morphine.
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    A 'Vaccine For Addiction' Is No Simple Fix

    Aug 10, 2017
    Scientists are trying to develop a vaccine to block the euphoria of heroin without interfering with other pain relief. The Trump administration hopes the approach might help with the opioid epidemic.

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