Category: Addicted to Heroin

Heroin Use On the Rise from Pill Crackdown

In Lancaster, Ohio, Holly Yates started using painkillers in the ninth grade, at parties and hanging out with friends. The pills were everywhere, easy to get and cheap. By the time she was 18, she was abusing oxycodone, Percocet and…

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Amy Winehouse Dead at 27, Suspected Drug Overdose

Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive behaviors overshadowed a unique musical talent, was discovered dead Saturday in her London residence, authorities said. She was 27. “Everyone who had been associated with Amy is stunned and devastated. Our thoughts…

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Heroin Becomes The Backup To Painkillers

Just a few days before her graduation in 2008 from a Long Island high school, cheerleader and National Honor Society member Natalie Ciappa died. She overdosed on heroin. The sad fact is that Natalie’s death is not an isolated incident…

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Courtney Love wishes daughter happy birthday on Twitter after losing custody

I breaks my heart to hear this, I mean I guess I should be ok with Courtney Love wishing her daughter happy birthday, but on Twitter? and this because she lost custody of the little girl in 2003, after an…

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Methadone, Opiate and Heroin Detox

More people die every year from methadone than from heroin. I read an article today that happened to mention that one of the people involved in the situation being written about was a methadone counselor. I was curious to find…

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