Heroin Threatens Vermont's Rural Paradise

Heroin Threatens Vermont's Rural Paradise
But after Governor Peter Shumlin's State of the State address last month, one he took the unusual step of devoting entirely to the local surge in heroin addiction, there was little left to anyone's imagination. Heroin addiction in Vermont is up 770 …
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How A Big Drug Company Inadvertently Got Americans Hooked On Heroin
It took about a year before Arielle moved from prescription painkillers into the illegal drug that killed her best friend: heroin. She snorted it for the first time after tagging along with a friend who was going to buy some. "I was like, 'I love it …
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'Killer Heroin' Causing Fatal Overdoses in East
As the number of people who use, and fatally overdose on, heroin has skyrocketed in recent years, authorities are seeing the return of an alarming development: heroin that, often unbeknownst to the user, is spiked with fentanyl. Fentanyl is a narcotic …
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Kentucky: Heroin overdoses rise as painkiller overdoses drop
Heroin contributed to 129 Kentucky resident drug overdose deaths in 2012, a 207 percent increase from the 42 heroin-involved deaths recorded in 2011. There was a 174 percent increase in inpatient hospitalization and a 197 percent increase in hospital …
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