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OxyContin a gateway to heroin for upper-income addicts

Publication: 
USA Today
Publication Date: 

April 25, 2013

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Tags: addiction, heroin, news articles, Oxycontin

Heroin is back. Is your neighborhood next?

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USA Today
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April 15, 2013

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Tags: addiction, heroin, hydrocodone, news articles, opioids, oxycodone

White suburbanites going from pain pills to heroin

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Chicago Tribune
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September 26, 2011

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Tags: demographic characteristics, heroin, Illinois, news articles

Initiation into prescription opioid misuse amongst young injection drug users

Author: 

Stephen E. Lankenau; Michelle Teti; Karol Silva; Jennifer Jackson Bloom; Alex Harocopos; Meghan Treese

Publication: 
International Journal of Drug Policy
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Tags: heroin, injection drug use, journal articles, opioid abuse

Ohio makes progress in kicking pill habit

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The Columbus Dispatch
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July 24, 2011

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Tags: heroin, injection drug use, interstate data sharing, news articles, Ohio, PDMP impact, pill mills, substance abuse

RCMP trying to stem tide of prescription drug abuse in N.B.

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Prescription World
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January 26, 2011

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Tags: Canada, heroin, news story, Oxycontin, PMP startup

Number of soldiers seeking opiate abuse treatment skyrockets

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5/6/10

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Tags: heroin, news articles, opioid abuse, opioid treatment

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