SALOME Study: Treatment of Heroin Addiction (1/2) – The SALOME Study will test whether hydromorphone (Dilaudid®), a licensed medication, is as good as diacetylmorphine, the active ingredient of heroin, in bene…

 

Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief

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Few understand the way addiction mangles families, she said, and the rippling toll of the tens of thousands of fatal heroin and painkiller overdoses every year. Perhaps it took Mr. Hoffman's death, she said, to “wake up America to all the no-names who …
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As heroin problems surge, states expand access to overdose reversal drug (+ …

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Bills to expand access to a drug reversing heroin overdoses passed in two state Senates this week, in what appears to be a national rush to tackle a heroin addiction problem whose abysmal toll on communities, from sleepy New England villages to …
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Judge: Hoffman's 'heroin dealer' inconsistent about addiction

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A Manhattan judge blasted Philip Seymour Hoffman's suspected drug dealer for claiming he had a raging heroin addiction in court Friday just days after he told the Post he was nearly sober in an exclusive jailhouse interview. Manhattan Supreme Court …
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