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Heroin - Information
Links to articles and facts related to heroin.
Facts / Resources
Facts and other resources from drugstory.org
Andy's Foundation - Shaker Heights, Ohio
Andy's Foundation is dedicated to our son, Andrew Parr Psarras, who tragically died at age nineteen of an acute drug intoxication on January 16, 2004. It is our hope that this website will provide ongoing information to help combat the use of illegal drugs and their potential consequence of needless deaths
Treatment Information
Treatment Center in Cleveland - New Directions
Heroin Treatment - An interview with Dr. Karen Miotto
Karen Miotto, M. D> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the UCLA School of Medicine.
"Heroin addicts die at a rate of about 5% per year. That's the highest death rate among any other addiction."
Articles
Cheese: mixture of heroin and cold medication.
"One Saturday night in June that year, Nick, 16, came home from a party in an apparent altered state...The next day, when Nick failed to emerge from his room, Dave (his father) went in. "It was not pretty, " he recalls. "He was already gone." Read more.
Kids being sold dangerous drugs mixed with candy, PD, May 9, 2007
Heroin in the suburbs (Includes Warning Signs)
Philadelphia Inquirer - February 2007
What's happened in Westlake, Ohio since the heroin arrests?
Westlife, April 30, 2008
Heroin in America
NPR Series Examines Growing Drug Abuse Problem, Morning Edition, February 23, 2004 (includes many useful links as well)
Heroin Hits Home
A & E Series:
A look at how parents in some Boston suburbs are coping with a heroin addiction epidemic that is threatening their kids' lives.
