Stop drug use
Stronger, truly addictive drugs are health issues and drug addiction should be treated as an illness – not as a crime. Other countries provide addicts with drugs as medicines (we do,too, with Methadone which is basically heroin) undercutting the … Read more on The Virginian-Pilot
Potent form of heroin spurs spike in local overdoses
Since the first of the year, patients with opiate withdrawal have increased 50 percent at The Recovery Center, a Virginia Beach-run facility that offers help with drug abuse. … "They were being recognized as heroin overdoses and being treated." Gary … Read more on The Virginian-Pilot
Dog makes difference in second career at Denver Health
Pauletta is a regular at the Substance Abuse Treatment Education Program (STEP) at Denver Health. "Kids come here to either overcome their trauma so they can get sober, or just figure out how to get sober because they've been experimenting," says … Read more on 9NEWS.com