Heroin Addiction

Heroin Addiction

Inside Teen Mom’s Rx Drug Addiction: Heroin, ‘Illegal Activities’ & More

SOBRIETY TAKES OVER – Aug. 14, 2023 - Leah opened up about her struggles with drug dependency during a November 2018 episode of her podcast “Life Reboot” and revealed the issue was sparked during her labor wit... Read More...

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Mother and Son Write Memoir on Addiction Journey

VIDEO – FAMILY 4TH STEP – Aug. 9, 2023 - Before There Was An After is a powerful and emotional memoir by a mother and son that recounts their seven-year journey through his heroin addiction and multiple attempts at... Read More...

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Former Heroin Addict Dives Into How He Overcame Deadly Habit

VIDEO – WORTH WATCHING – Aug. 10, 2023 - A former heroin addict has opened up about his struggles with addiction and how he got his life back on track. “What people don’t understand about the physical nature of ... Read More...

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Horrifying Amount of Americans Won’t Make it to Old Age

VERY SAD STORY – July 31, 2023 - On a white board at the end of the room, across from the sofas, the names of former clients who have died of overdoses in the past few years are listed. Though the town has a populati... Read More...

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Flesh-Rotting Tranq Infects Cocaine Supply

VIDEO – SCARY TIMES – July 31, 2023 - “We’ve seen an increase in street-level distribution of cocaine-xylazine mixture,” Frank Tarentino, the special agent in charge of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s... Read More...

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How Bachelorette Zac Clark Got Addicted to Heroin

PRESCRIPTIONS RUN OUT – July 21, 2023 - As so often happens, Zac’s surgery to remove the tumor introduced him to strong painkillers (opiates), prescribed by his medical team. Tayshia Adams’ ex-fianacé said the... Read More...

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Khalil Rafati’s Journey from Homeless Heroin Addict to Millionaire

HE DID IT GOD’S WAY – July 13, 2023 - For his purpose in life, he chose to inspire others, and it’s like he says, “Most of my followers are not drug addicts. They’re just people who want a better life.” His re... Read More...

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The Age of Drug Normalization

IT’S ALL GOOD? – June 11, 2023 - In addition to crystal methamphetamine, Blanchard said she also used heroin and “lots of different things under the sun.” A trans woman, she said she began using drugs while engaging ... Read More...

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‘I yelled, “I’m putting this up your nose”’: what it’s like to use Narcan

JUST SAY YES – May 30, 2023 - Naloxone, better known by the brand name Narcan, reverses overdoses by binding to the opioid receptors in the brain, blocking the effects of drugs such as fentanyl or heroin. Harm reduct... Read More...

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Perspectives in a City Plagued with Overdose Deaths

THERE IS A SOLUTION? – May 30, 2023 - Joining MORI took Molinski out of the office, where she most often worked with patients, and into their lives. “My experience with patients in the past had been in an offi... Read More...

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Guns N’ Roses’ Steven Adler Was Kidnapped To Break Heroin Habit

BROTHERLY LOVE– May 25, 2023 - On March 22, 2007, Jamie orchestrated a kidnapping. He had his brother picked up, drugged to sleep and transported across state lines to Los Angeles, where Jamie imprisoned him against ... Read More...

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1-Year-Old Eats Heroin from Mommy’s Purse

ACCIDENTAL CHILD ABUSE? – May 9, 2023 - A mother is awaiting sentencing after authorities say her 1-year-old daughter ate heroin found in the Macomb County woman’s purse. Anita Vasquez, 32, pleaded no contes... Read More...

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Canadian Opens Shop Selling Coke, MDMA and Heroin

A WORTHY RADICAL IDEA! – May 10, 2023 - BC is a province with a population of around five million people, which, for context, is significantly less than London’s roughly nine million people. In BC, an average o... Read More...

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Fentanyl Strikes Again: Dead Kennedys Drummer D.H. Peligro Died From OD

PRINCE, TOM PETTY, MAC MILLER – MAY 2, 2023 - His bandmates first said they thought he died after accidentally falling and hitting his head, although, at the time, our law enforcement sources told us it was more myst... Read More...

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Poison Center Warns of ‘gas station heroin’

VIDEO – DON’T BUY FOOD AT A GAS STATION – April 20, 2023 - While it’s legal to buy and sell in Virginia, according to the CDC, the drug is used as an antidepressant and marketed to help with anxiety, among other thi... Read More...

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New Film’s Intimate Exploration of the Loneliness of Drug Addiction

VIDEO – HEROIN STARS AS THE VILLAIN – April 10, 2023 - The loneliness of addiction – and the toll it can take on an individual’s psyche and their relationships – is intimately explored in Paloma Sermon-Daï’s unassu... Read More...

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Remarkable Film of Life with Heroin-Addicted Mum

VIDEO – YOU ONLY HAVE ONE MUMMY – April 8, 2023 - This impressionistic British documentary collage, collectively made by Selby, co-director Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Alex Fry, Josie Cole and producer Natasha Dack Ojumu, e... Read More...

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When Steven Tyler Tried to Help Kurt Cobain Kick Heroin?

DENIAL CAN KILL – March 30, 2023 - As he watched Nirvana’s meteoric rise in the early ‘90s, Steven Tyler says he recognised the “pain” in Kurt Cobain’s eyes and later discovered that Nirvana’s frontman was usin... Read More...

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How Perry Farrell Helped John Frusciante Get Off Heroin

VIDEO – LIFE SAVING ROCK HISTORY – March 12, 2023 - ‘Okay, let’s get you to the hospital right now.’ I had this bag of about an ounce of Persian heroin and about an ounce of cocaine, and I was just doing as much as ... Read More...

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Drug Combinations Known to Cause More Overdose Deaths

IT’S NOT COMPLICATED – Feb. 20, 2023 - “It presents sort of a problem because in an overdose situation, the Narcan isn’t going to work. It’s not an opiate, so Narcan is not going to reverse it,” Kalfas said. ... Read More...

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New Street Drug Threatening to Make California’s Overdose Crisis Worse

WORSE THAN WORSE – Feb. 18, 2023 - In San Francisco, four people who died between December and January were found to have low levels of xylazine in their systems, prompting the city’s Department of Public Healt... Read More...

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Heroin Nasal Spray Increases Harm Reduction Options

LENNY BRUCE WOULD HAVE APPROVED – Jan. 17, 2023 - “You don’t have the same feeling—no rush, the same high as you get from injecting,” Dr. Vogel told Filter. And some people who don’t want to inject nonetheless... Read More...

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How Robert Downey Jr. Saved Wes Bentley’s Life During Heroin Run

MORE THAN ZERO – Nov. 5, 2022 - In 2008, Bentley was arrested and pleaded guilty to heroin possession. He was mandated to 12-step programs but relapsed. Finally, in 2009, he met a guy who would help him kick hi... Read More...

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Becoming a Mom Helped Me Quit My Life Long Addiction to Heroin.

PREGNANT WITH POSSIBILITIES – Oct. 25, 2022 - I came from an upper-middle-class family. I excelled in school as a popular, straight-A student. I was a cheerleader, an equestrian, and a volleyball player. To the... Read More...

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One Man’s Journey Through Opioid Addiction

IT’S THE HERO’S JOURNEY! – Oct. 14, 2022 - “I overdosed on drugs. I took heroin laced with fentanyl,” the 38-year-old Idaho Falls man says. “I was dead.” Exactly how long he was dead is unclear. To th... Read More...

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Dr. Explains what happens when a person uses cocaine or heroin for the first time

THEY GAMBLE BIG – Oct. 9, 2022 - Around 100 million people consume illicit drugs such as cocaine or heroin in India – this revelation was made by the Narcotics Control Bureau DDG (Operations) Sanja... Read More...

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6 Drugs That Are A Challenge To Overcome

NOT TO MENTION DENIAL – Oct. 2022 - Prescription drugs can be very challenging to overcome. This is because they are legal and easy to obtain. They are also socially acceptable. This can make it difficult for p... Read More...

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A Story of Addiction and Recovery

NPR AUDIO – INTELLIGENT CONVERSATIONS ARE RARE – Oct. 6, 2022 - Southern Illinois native Shane Hassler battled addiction to heroin for more than 20 years before seeking treatment. Now he helps others as ... Read More...

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‘I have escaped death so many times’

HAVEN’T MOST OF US? – Sept. 28, 2022 - There was the time, a few years later, when her boyfriend died of a heroin overdose during one of their binges. “I moved back in with my mom and didn’t use heroi... Read More...

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Heroin Overdoses Down in D.C. The Sad Reason? Fentanyl.

THE CAPITAL OF DEATH – Sept. 8, 2022 - Now heroin, synonymous with illicit drug use in Mid-Atlantic cities since the 1960s, is close to vanishing from the streets of the nation’s capital. D.C.’s lates... Read More...

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