Prescription Drug Abuse Summit- Treatment and Prevention Perspective- 01

Published August 12, 2013

Prescription Drug Abuse Summit- Treatment and Prevention Perspective- 01 –

Programs bulging with heroin addicts

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

Drug-treatment services in the Mahoning Valley are feeling the crunch of a rise in the use of opiate-based drugs and heroin. Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court says that not only has his drug court seen more people struggling with …
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Pill crackdown drives addicts to heroin

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

“Furthermore, opiate heroin addicts are stating that they can still receive a state of euphoria by taking the heroin rather than taking the prescription medication, which at some point only maintains their addiction and keeps them from going into …
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