Law Enforcement Sees Rise of Pills-to-Heroin Trend

Law enforcement sees rise of pills-to-heroin trend
My career, my home, my children — you name it, it's gone.” She faces serious legal troubles and a lifetime of addiction treatment. When Prince William police decided this summer to target dealers of prescription pills, the stereotypical suburban drug …
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Babies Born Addicted & Governor LePage's Quest for Solutions
Your recent radio address seems to indicate that new, innovative, and exciting solutions can be found to a social epidemic of babies born of drug addicted mothers. … Systemic responses under your administration have been to consistently erode the …
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That Other Big Afghan Crisis, the Growing Army of Addicts
In a country troubled by adversity, from its long-running war to rampant corruption, drug addiction ranks low among national priorities. Government funding for treatment and outreach is less than $ 4 million a year. There are just under 28,000 formal …
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Former Kirkland nurse charged with drug tampering
“The defendant claimed to have developed a narcotic addiction following the legitimate prescriptions of hydromorphone and oxycodone in February 2013 by the doctor at [a Bellevue plastic surgery clinic],” the probable cause documents state. “The …
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