MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. – Over four decades, William Hyde has seen big changes in his Stuart neighborhood, not all of them good. “We’ve had trouble with them for years.” By “them” he means drug dealers. He was glad to hear this week that two men were arrested on drug charges at a home near his. […]
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – Tara Burke was 31-years-old the evening she was found face down in her bathroom. “She was an incredible writer. She could sing. She was an amazing artist,” recalls her mom, Carol Howard. “There were so many things that she could have done and they’re all gone,” she said wiping away
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Lots of people hit Ybor City on the weekends. We asked many of them this question: “You guys consider yourselves pretty street savvy?” Everyone said they thought they were pretty street smart. “If I tried to sell you heroin, would you know what it looks like?” “Yes, I would.” But could they? People were surprised
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Not too long after the Soviet flag was hauled down from the Kremlin, a startling number of Russian men started dying. Young and middle-age men began to drown, get run over and suffer asphyxiation and heart attacks in shocking numbers. There were all manner of suspicious, gruesome deaths, the details of which suggested alcohol abuse
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by John Shiffman Editor’s Note: This is part two of a three-part series from our partners at Reuters. CHARLESTON, West Virginia — This story has a chance of ending happily. But it begins last fall in a mangy downtown apartment as Katy Yeager, seven months pregnant, stares at a syringe and the crumpled foil that
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by Colin Campbell A viral video of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) railing against how society treats drug addiction has generated newfound interest in how presidential candidates have dealt with the issue. In Christie’s case, he described a very successful law-school friend who became addicted to pain-killers and having to go to his funeral.
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Cicero TJ, et al. N Engl J Med. 2015;doi:10.1056/NEJMc1505541. From 2008 to 2014, prescription opioid use decreased while concurrent heroin use increased, with significant regional differences in the U.S., according to recent findings. “From 2010 through 2013, there was a notable downturn in abuse of prescription opioids and a coincident increase in abuse of heroin
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By Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — A record number of Ohioans died from heroin-related overdoses in 2012, the state Department of Health said as it released the newest available figures for a problem that’s been called an epidemic and a public health crisis. The state says 680 people died of heroin overdoses in 2012, up
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