Addictions Awareness Week Kicks Off

Addictions Awareness week kicks off
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The awareness week helps reduce stigma around the discourse of addiction to drugs, gambling and alcohol, which can have disastrous effects if used in excess. “Some of my family members have lost everything to the point where they are as low as they … Read more on Alberta Daily Herald Tribune

At Clinics, Tumultuous Lives and Turbulent Care
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He considered opioid addiction “a hopeless disease,” with patients leaving rehab and then relapsing and sometimes dying, until he started prescribing Suboxone, the brand-name drug whose main ingredient is buprenorphine, as a maintenance therapy in 2004 … Read more on New York Times

Ohio AG Calls Heroin a Statewide Epidemic; Offers Help to Communities
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Heidi Riggs and her family know the effects of heroin. Riggs' daughter Marin, 20, died from a heroin overdose in January 2012. “Our son found her on the bathroom floor. … The Attorney General's Heroin Unit, which will include investigators, lawyers … Read more on WSAZ-TV