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Help With Heroin Addiction in the News

Mother's Day only adds to this mom's burdens
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… her old heroin addiction. “When I would use heroin, it would take the pain away,” says Katherine, adding that she started using heroin in her 30s and quit several years ago after jail stints and treatment. She says she regrets the choices she made.
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I-Team: You're paying to keep addicts medicated
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That coverage is helping an Eastgate-area addict named Elaine with her recovery. "With Suboxone, I don't get high at all," she said. "My life is gradually getting better and better, and I'm doing all the things I couldn't do before." Elaine's heroin …
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ABC-Channel 7: Oprah Donates 0000 to Newark’s Integrity House

Global media icon Oprah Winfrey donated 0000 to Newark substance abuse rehab center, Integrity House.

Focus on the NH drug task force
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Addiction rehab patients find keeping up with cost of treatment is a struggle
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Does the program tailor treatment to the needs of each patient? 3. Does the program adapt treatment as the patient's needs change? 5. How do 12-step or similar recovery programs fit into drug addiction treatment? More information about state addiction …
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Heroin Detox Drugs in the News

Special patrol offers help as Denver weighs homeless camping ban
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Randy Sorrell, a 50-year-old recovering heroin addict, has been on the streets since September after detox and failing to find a job. He chooses to live in a camp near the South Platte River instead of at a shelter. "This law has got us wondering what …
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Small Teen Turns Eighteen
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The documentary also follows the teenager on a trip to America as her father begins a methadone detox programme. Having learned that he had slipped back into taking heroin while filming the series Small Teen, Bigger World, Jazz vowed to cease contact …
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Whole Recovery
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Prescription Drug Addiction 'Could Happen to Anyone'
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That all changed when their son, Kevin, started showing the telltale signs of painkiller addiction, which led to what Connie Tighe described as “a rollercoaster of treatment and relapse,” eventually ending in Kevin's untimely death a little more than …
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Ryan O'Neal blames himself for kids' problems
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… the influence (DUI), while daughter Tatum recently left rehab after suffering a "cocaine relapse". The pair's half-brother Redmond – whose mother was late actress Farrah Fawcett – is currently seeking court-ordered treatment for heroin addiction.
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White Matter Abnormalities Correlating with Memory and Depression in Heroin Users under Methadone Maintenance Treatment.
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[Effects of methadone maintenance treatment on working memory in male heroin dependent patients].
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Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2012 Feb 21; 92(7): 464-7
Yin LS, Li ZA, Pang LJ, Zhu CY, Wang SM, Zhang L, Tang WC, Dai J

To explore the differences of working memory task performance between male patients with heroin dependence in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and healthy controls (HC).A total of 42 heroin-dependent patients at Huainan City Psychiatric Hospital from May 2011 to October 2011 were compared with 31 gender- and age-matched HCs on such working memory tests as visual-space, visual-verbal and visual-face. Then the accurate rate and reaction time of the above tasks were between two groups.The participants with anxiety or depression were excluded. All MMT subjects were required to have negative urine toxicology screening tests. The accurate rate of verbal working memory of the patients was worse than that of HCs (83% ± 9% vs 89% ± 10%). And the difference was significant between two groups (t(71) = -2.631, P = 0.010). The accurate rate of visual-object and visual-spatial working memory showed no significant differences between two groups (P > 0.05). The differences in reaction time on these tasks showed no statistical significance between two groups (P > 0.05). In addition, the dose of methadone and the duration of MMT revealed no significant effects on the performance of working memory and executive functions.The disproportion impairment of patients on space, verbal and face working memory is probably due to the differential heroin-mediated injuries of encephalic regions. Methadone has no effect on working memory and executive functions in the patients with a history of heroin use during maintenance treatment intervention.
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