Heroin abuse at 'epidemic' level in South Florida –drug report
MIAMI (Reuters) – A high-profile law enforcement crackdown on prescription painkiller abuse in Florida has addicts turning increasingly to heroin, resulting in the highest number of overdose deaths and hospitalizations in recent years, a report on drug …
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Long a nexus of Rx drug abuse, Staten Island now faces heroin's scourge
Except as risky as painkillers are to abuse, heroin's an even trickier roll of the dice. "They don't know what they're doing," says Fusco, who runs the Dynamite Youth Center in Brooklyn and its residential treatment center in update Fallsburg New York …
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