Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
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NEW YORK — As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it — because there are no beds in packed facilities, treatment is hugely expensive and insurance companies won't pay for …
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Photos: Brazilian police evict 5000 squatters
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More than 20 percent of the city's 6.3 million residents live in these slums, occupying abandoned land and buildings, often answering to armed drug gangs that operate under their own set of economic and organizational structures. On Friday, police got …
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US Sentencing Commission Votes To Cut Drug Trafficking Sentences
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In the past decade, in many states, the harsh Reagan-era war on drugs approach to drug use and trafficking has given way to smarter approaches geared toward diversion and treatment of drug offenders, but when it comes to reforms, the federal system has …
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Heroin abuse on the rise on High Desert
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Reports from the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration show the number of heroin users in the U.S. has more than doubled in the last decade. … It's a trend reflected both in Oregon and in Central Oregon. Officials at Bend …
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