Detox or Die Pt. 1 of 5

Detox or Die Pt. 1 of 5 – BBC Documentary on a heroin addict going threw detox with the African Psychedelic Ibogaine. Part 1 of 5.

Heroin's grip, a struggle for recovery

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At Gosnold on Cape Cod, the only inpatient detoxification and rehabilitation facility on the Cape, the share of detox patients with opiate addiction (prescription pills and heroin) has gone from 24 percent in 2002 to 48 percent in 2012. In 2011, 544 …
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Eastham mother's journey to help opiate-addicted baby

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The woman's doctor, Dr. William Agel at Cape Cod Hospital, was aware that she used heroin and Subutex during pregnancy. The baby was classified as “high risk” because she could go into opiate withdrawal at birth. They had no good options of places to …
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Insurance companies pushed to cover addiction treatment

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Three years after Corey's first detox treatment, when he was 21, he overdosed while living with his grandmother in Connecticut in September 2008. “It was an absolute heartbreak to our family, but … She contacted Massachusetts Attorney General Martha …
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