Region Sees Rise in Heroin Use

Published March 3, 2014

Region sees rise in heroin use
Law enforcement, substance abuse treatment centers, even coroners, are seeing a trend already set in other parts of the country: heroin use is on the rise. “If any community … “From what I'm hearing from other coroners, it is happening in some of the …
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Jasper Juvenile Center Closing
Pollock is the Program Director for the Jasper Youth Treatment Center. He says the Hamilton County School Board and the Hamilton County Development Authority aren't willing to work with him to keep the center open. "The Superintendent of Hamilton …
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Heroin overdose antidote: Who gets to carry it?
Registered Nurse Babette Richter, with the South Jersey AIDS Alliance, holds up a container of the heroin overdose antidote, naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, in Camden, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. … In Ocean County, N.J., police …
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Pleasantville officials: Drug-recovery clinic not our kind of business
A smaller presence would remain in Atlantic City for the estimated 300 residents who take part in the center's methadone program, while its inpatient component may move to Hamilton Township. Methadone is used to treat addiction by weaning users off …
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