Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Calls Attention to Rise in Heroin Use

Philip Seymour Hoffman's death calls attention to rise in heroin use
More than 660,000 Americans used heroin in 2012, health officials say — nearly double the number from five years earlier — and users tend to be more affluent than before, living in the suburbs and rural areas rather than the inner city. "It's reached …
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Demi Lovato slams Hollywood's glamorous portrayal of drug use as 'harmless
She famously – and publicly – battled her own drug addiction to cocaine that saw her seek treatment in rehab at the ripe old age of 18. And in the wake of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's death from an apparent heroin overdose on Sunday, Demi Lovato took …
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Portrait of Froma Harrop
Peter Shumlin wants to use the moment of arrest as an opportunity to steer drug users into treatment instead of prison. He wants to treat addiction … Note the reasoning of Trey Radel, the Florida tea party Republican recently convicted for cocaine …
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