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America’s Heroin Relapse
The misconceptions, changes, and causes of the Rx drug & heroin crisis are complex. Following in the wake of over-prescribed opiates by doctors, a new wave of addiction is spreading across the U.S....
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Wes Bentley Lost 10 Years to Heroin & Cocaine
Bradley Cooper isn’t the only recovering addict in the news this week. Wes Bentley also opened up about his life and career-altering addiction to heroin. His story is another example of how much time a...
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There’s A Treatment For Heroin Addiction That Actually Works. So Why Aren’t...
This weekend marks a year since Philip Seymour Hoffman died, with a needle in his arm, in his apartment in New York City. And today there’s a treatment for heroin addiction that actually works. But...
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My Addiction: a Self-Portrait by Graham MacIndoe
Most documentary projects about addiction expose someone else’s self-destructive behavior, but Graham MacIndoe took a very different approach: He photographed himself during the years he was addicted...
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Too Many People are Dying from Heroin
While the media was consumed last week with the debate over childhood vaccinations, the Obama administration, spurred on by a stunning investigation by the Huffington Post, quietly took an important...
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Sadly, Police Target Heroin Addiction Clinics
With heroin addiction skyrocketing, methadone remains the gold standard for narcotics dependence treatment. Yet cops nationwide target heavily regulated methadone clinics to turn vulnerable addicts...
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The Challenging Cycle of Painkiller Abuse
Opioids now cause more deaths than any other drug, more than 16,000 in 2010. That year, the combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen became the most prescribed medication in the United States....
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As Vermont Tackles Heroin Addiction, Progress Is Measured in Baby Steps
It was a long way down for Michael Kenney. As he neared the depths of heroin addiction, he stole prescription painkillers from his dying father, replacing them with Tylenol and leaving his father...
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A Brief History Of Heroin
The seductive allure of heroin — the drug that has vanquished so many creative minds — is back. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the rate of heroin-related...
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This Video Humanizes Our Heroin Epidemic
Summer Myers died in January at the age of 26. She was a heroin addict. Now, Jackie Smallwood, Myers’ mother, wants you to hear her daughter’s story, the Alaska Dispatch News reports. In a graphic...
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A Heartbreaking Obituary for a Daughter & Heroin Addict
After losing his daughter to a heroin overdose, a grieving dad penned an honest obituary for his child—and it’s going viral. Tom Parks says he wanted to highlight the dangers of drug addiction, “Even...
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Police in Mass. Are Ending Their War on Drugs
This entire time, our local police departments have quietly held the power to end the war on drugs — and now some are doing just that. Sick of the opioid overdose crisis that has killed four people in...
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The Future is Unwritten
In the late 1970s, The Clash was the most exciting rock’n’roll band in the world. There was years of non-stop playing, partying and drug-taking. In 1982, The Clash had a huge international success with...
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Young, Educated and Addicted
Hollywood and much of the Western world was shocked by the sudden passing of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in February of 2014. Reports rapidly circulated that Hoffman, 46, was found dead from an...
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Addiction Is Preventable
It’s a subject we find hard to talk about, even though it kills more people in America than guns or cars and claims more lives than murder or suicide. I’m talking about drug overdoses, taking close to...
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James Taylor’s Recovery from Heroin Addiction
At 67, James Taylor is amazed to be alive. He was a train wreck even before he was famous. He was a heroin addict and a psychiatric patient in his teens, and his narcotic dependency fueled the...
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Facing the Pain, Blame & Addiction of Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse, the hard-living retro soul star turned tabloid obsession died in 2011 after a very public battle with addiction. The British musician memorably sang about her refusal to go to rehab, but...
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3 Charts Showing How Bad Our Heroin Problem Has Become
Heroin use is on the rise in the United States. Deaths involving heroin have quadrupled since 2000. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that heroin use is “increasing...
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Hype, Heroin & Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s bristling, ugly-elegant, stream-of-consciousness art still looks damn good. The body of work, produced during a truncated but astoundingly prolific career, has the almost too...
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Transcending Addiction with Billie Holiday
You can’t have a complete conversation about Billie Holiday’s life without discussing her relationship with drugs. Her struggle with addiction and the impact it had on her life is a big part of her...
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