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Category: Heroin and Opiate Addiction

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America’s Opioid Crisis

By the end of 2019, fatal opioid misuse was already rising in Colorado. In 2018, there were 543 reported opioid deaths involving either prescription or illicit narcotics….

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Speedballs: What is It?

Comedians Chris Farley and John Belushi died from them, as did musician Chris Kelly and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. A speedball is regarded as one…

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Legendary rock musician Tom Petty passed away at the age of 66 from an accidental overdose on October 2, 2017.

What Happened to Tom Petty?

Tom Petty understood addiction all too well. “You start losing your soul,” he told his friend Warren Zanes, who wrote “Petty: The Biography.” “Using heroin…

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Is Suboxone a Narcotic?

Suboxone contains two chemicals; buprenorphine and naloxone. By most definitions, buprenorphine is a narcotic (including tablet or sublingual buprenorphine used for opioid dependence ). However,…

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