Drug enforcement agencies, health pros see increased use of heroin

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… a certified drug counselor. Now a substance abuse treatment professional, he cited a trend concerning public health officials for years: Increased heroin use. … Prescription narcotics act on the opiate receptors, or pleasure receptors,” he said …
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Doctors in Canada Can No Longer Prescribe Heroin

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Health Minister Rona Ambrose is not OK with controlled doses of heroin, even in rare cases of severe long-term addiction where treatments like methadone and Suboxone have failed. On October 3, Ambrose changed the rules that normally allow doctors to …
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Solving Opioid Addiction Crisis: No Silver Bullet

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"Prescription opioids are effective as pain medications. If you get lower back pain or you get some kind of pancreatitis you are going to pray to God for some kind of opioid. And they will work. The problem is they also have an abuse liability," says …
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