When Robert King was a high school wrestler, he broke his foot and doctors prescribed him Percocet to help ease the pain. But he became addicted to the pain medication, and within a few years he moved on to a cheaper alternative: heroin. “Once I started taking pills I never really stopped,” King told CBS […]
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Pat Beall Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 12:00 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016 Southern Palm Beach County Gregory Gartside was first to fall. The year wasn’t an hour old in 2015 when the Florida Atlantic University student’s parents returned from a New Year’s Eve party to find their son had overdosed on heroin. Roughly once
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DELRAY BEACH — The surge in heroin overdoses throughout the city in October continued Halloween weekend with five overdoses, bringing the monthly total to 88. That number tops the previous record high by 22 overdoses. [su_button url=”http://spbc.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2016/11/02/five-more-heroin-overdoses-in-delray-brings-october-total-to-88/” target=”blank” background=”#3A6E93″]READ MORE[/su_button] For more information contact Vivitrol provider Dr. Steven Scanlan Palm Beach Outpatient Detox 7251 W.
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Sean Lyman has a standing appointment at his doctor’s office every 28 days. Like clockwork, the recovering heroin addict is injected with an emerging treatment drug that he says has turned his life around. “The shot is just… I don’t know how to describe it, besides it’s a miracle,” Lyman told CBS News. The 25-year-old
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It’s 2 a.m., you’ve written one sentence for the five-page paper due in a few hours and you haven’t even started looking at your notes for the big test; then you realize your coffee supply is running low. For students, this is the most dreaded week of the year—finals week. There are many kinds of
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It might not be surprising news that a night of heavy drinking impacts a person’s short-term memory, but University of Florida researchers have found that older adults’ mental abilities are more affected by heavy drinking than younger adults, and that heavy drinking in youth can have long-lasting effects on memory and learning in old age.
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Ohio police have posted shocking photos of two unconscious adults – who police believe had overdosed on heroin – in a car with a 4-year-old boy in the back seat. On its Facebook page, the city of East Liverpool, Ohio, shared the photos Thursday, along with a police report. Police say that they responded to
Delray Beach police continue to express alarm about heroin overdoses in the city. The department says officers answered 13 overdose calls from Friday to Monday and two resulted in deaths. One of the victims was a 35-year-old man and other was a 26-year-old man. In May officers responded to 17 heroin-related overdoses in which three
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The American heroin epidemic has become more dangerous, as reports of heroin laced with carfentanil are being reported throughout the country. Carfentanil is the most potent opioid used commercially, 10,000 times stronger than morphine. It is a version or analogue of fentanyl, the painkiller that most recently made headlines with its role in the death
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When prescription opioids started getting too difficult or too expensive to procure, people addicted to them started turning to heroin–a shift that’s created an “epidemic” of heroin use in whole new groups of people. Now, a new opioid is rising in use and overdose: Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is 50-100 times more potent than morphine,
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