Heroin taking oxy's place for more addicts
Based on projections from the first half of 2012, Broward County addiction treatment centers saw an 87 percent spike in admissions among addicts using heroin as their drug of choice — to 316 from 169 the year before, according to state Department of …
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Heroin problem getting younger; average age of people seeking treatment at 26
An alarming number of teens and young adults in the Puget Sound area are going from prescription pain killers to heroin as their drug of choice. "If we don't get our hands and heads around how to stop this, we're going to be losing kids left and right …
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Heroin use skyrockets impacting families, community
Meanwhile, heroin users are overwhelming local treatment centers. At the Jefferson Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center downtown, director Diane Hague said 90 percent of calls are now heroin related. "Most of my calls are heroin users," Hague said. "It's rare …
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