Few opioid-addicted youth get standard treatment medication
By CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP MEDICAL WRITER CHICAGO — Jun 19, 2017, 1:48 PM ET Only 1 in 4 teens and young adults with opioid addiction receive recommended treatment medication despite having good health insurance, according to a study that suggests doctors are not keeping up with the needs of youth caught up in the worst […]
Here, Heroin Spares No One, Not Even the Sheriff’s Wife
(CNN)Robert Leahy was sitting on his couch, watching TV, when his wife, Gretchen, walked through the front door. It was about 10 p.m. She’d left for the grocery store hours earlier. Now, she “bumbled” about the room, Leahy says, incoherent and vacant. He’d seen her like this before. “What the f**k are you doing?” he […]
Heroin Addiction Costs Us More Than $50 Billion Per Year
The heroin problem in the United States continues to worsen, with the number of reported users doubling from 2000 to 2013, and climbing since. Heroin overdose deaths have more than tripled in the last 15 years. But how much does the heroin epidemic cost the United States? A lot. Researchers seeking to put a number […]
Her heroin party guests paid a cover to get in. Some had to be resuscitated to leave, cops say
BY HANNAH MORSE [email protected] A Florida woman is accused of running a heroin party house — and collecting a cover charge before customers could go inside to get high. The 37-year-old Sarasota woman, Danielle Baggett, was arrested April 11 on a charge of a nuisance dwelling, where deputies responded to seven overdoses, including her own. […]
‘I was addicted to heroin- and it could happen to anyone’
By Charlotte Hilton Andersen Published June 20, 2017 Liz Cohen remembers the exact moment she gave in to heroin. Sitting in a rundown motel room with her boyfriend and starting to feel the intense pains of withdrawal, she says she begged him to get her more drugs. But when he told her that all he […]
It May Soon Be Possible To Immunize People Against Opioid Addiction
The opioid epidemic is spreading like a disease, so it’s fitting that the next major development in fighting it could be a vaccine. Researchers reporting at the 254th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) say they’ve made significant progress toward developing a vaccine against the effects of the synthetic opioid fentanyl […]
Man and his mother found dead after apparent heroin overdoses in St. Louis home
By Christine Byers St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jun 5, 2017 ST. LOUIS • A woman called police Sunday after she could not wake her daughter and grandson, and police believe both fatally overdosed on heroin. The victims — a woman in her 50s and her son, about 30 — were pronounced dead by EMS workers at […]
Opioid addiction crisis spurs brutal candor in obituaries
Andrew Oswald kept a secret. Friends and neighbors in his hometown of Hamilton, N.J., knew Oswald as a gifted writer, a music buff and the kind of guy parents wanted their sons to hang around and their daughters to date. On Jan. 27, Andrew died at the age of 23. His parents unsparingly shared his […]
Privileged teenagers at high-achieving schools are up to three times MORE likely to battle a drug addiction in their mid-20s
Some 40 percent of men from affluent areas face addiction by the age of 26 High-pressure schools with impressive grades are thought to be to blame Universities continue to offer limited places and require demanding applications Well-off families increases a student’s disposable income, prompting fake IDs Peer pressure and parental ignorance to the problem may […]
The Opioid Epidemic’s Biggest Culprit Isn’t Heroine Anymore – It’s Something Deadlier
Andrew*, an HVAC engineer, looks better than your average 37-year-old, college-educated man from Canton, OH. Clean-shaven, wearing a fitted maroon polo shirt and black dress pants. Athletic. Energetic. Flirtatious. He sits on the patio of a local restaurant, sipping his cocktail, skimming the menu at the kind of place you take your kids to after […]
