Ready Access, Low Cost, Pill-Like High: Heroin's Rise and Fatal Draw

Ready access, low cost, pill-like high: Heroin's rise and fatal draw
"I've been here over six years and literally this is the first year that I can remember seeing this many people coming in here with an addiction to heroin," says Robert Parkinson, director of the Beachcomber Rehabilitation Center in Delray Beach, Florida.
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Turning a positive into a negative
To cope with his lifelong struggle to repress his sexual identity, Jeff Allen, now a board member at the National AIDS Housing Coalition, turned to heroin as an escape. In 1985, 20-year-old Allen began his first stint in a Florida rehabilitation center …
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Candy Flavors Put E-Cigarettes On Kids' Menu
Dr. Cathy McDonald runs a center for tobacco dependence, treatment and cessation for Alameda County, Calif. She admits that, "right now we don't have as much information as we would like." What scientists do know, she says, is that "10 minutes of …
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FDA grants accelerated approval to NORTHERATM (droxidopa) for patients with …
Chelsea Therapeutics International, Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHTP) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval of NORTHERATM (droxidopa) for the treatment of symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (NOH …
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