'The Biggest Epidemic'
'The biggest epidemic'
In 2012, nine people died from a drug overdose in the county. For comparison, county … have to talk about it.” While experts know how to handle alcohol and cocaine addictions, the heroin epidemic is something that has taxed the substance abuse system …
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Physician: Drug abuse common in ER setting
Heroin by far is the most dangerous illegal drug being abused, Wilkerson said, and emergency physicians see “clusters” of overdoses. Because the strength of any given ingestion of heroin can't be determined, it is difficult to treat, he said …
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