Fatal Addiction: Britain’s 6200 State-Sponsored Drug Addicts Hooked on Heroin … – Daily Mail

Fatal addiction: Britain’s 6200 state-sponsored drug addicts hooked on heroin … – Daily Mail


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Fatal addiction: Britain's 6200 state-sponsored drug addicts hooked on heroin
Daily Mail
Thousands of drug addicts have spent more than a decade hooked on a heroin substitute prescribed by the NHS at a cost of £200 million, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Doctors prescribe the opiate drug methadone hydrochloride to help hard-drug users 

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More states focusing on prescription drug problem – USA TODAY

More states focusing on prescription drug problem
USA TODAY
BUFFALO — Michael Israel's death of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2011 was a tragedy. The Buffalo 20-year-old had become despondent about his addiction to the powerful painkillers prescribed him for his Crohn's disease. "But the ultimate Greek 

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Drug-addicted babies on rise in Tennessee – Johnson City Press (subscription)


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Drugaddicted babies on rise in Tennessee
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So far this year, there have been more drugaddicted babies born in Tennessee than in all of 2011, according to statistics released last week by the state Department of Health. “They've been keeping very accurate tabs on the infants suffering from
Tennessee Department of Health reports more Drug Dependent Newborns in Clarksville Online

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