One snapshot in a tragic national picture: Long Island sees exploding heroin use
Five things you didn't know about heroin. Chris, now 17, is in treatment at Outreach House, a long-term substance abuse program on Long Island, New York, for youths ages 12 to 17. His road to recovery hasn't been a smooth ride, however. After three …
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Long a nexus of Rx drug abuse, Staten Island now faces heroin's scourge
Except as risky as painkillers are to abuse, heroin's an even trickier roll of the dice. "They don't know what they're doing," says Fusco, who runs the Dynamite Youth Center in Brooklyn and its residential treatment center in update Fallsburg New York …
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Does Calling Heroin Addiction A Brain Disease Help Avoid Tragedies Like Philip …
You might surmise that there is a connection between viewing addiction as a brain disease and coming up with an effective treatment for it. But you would be wrong. The dominant model for addiction treatment in the United States is the 12-step approach …
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8 questions about heroin and the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hoffman had said he stayed clean for two decades, but then had a relapse in 2012, and entered a drug-treatment program. 3.) So how prevalent is heroin use, nationwide? It's still lower than the use of other illegal drugs, which is good news. But the …
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