Sentences with phrase «heroin addiction»

Having come from a background of heroin addiction with little schooling and no qualifications, I had significant concerns as to whether or not I would be able to complete a degree in theology.

He's been sober from heroin addiction for about a year.

The governor says he wants to work on fighting heroin addiction, and has set up a task force which includes several of his agency heads and addiction specialists and treatment centers.

Congressional lawmakers are touting a bill that would fight heroin addiction by addressing the prescription of pain medication.

The measures deal with a variety of issues within heroin addiction, including treatment coverage from insurance, prevention as well as strengthening penalties for dealers.

She only began taking cocaine to rid herself of a lengthy heroin addiction.

Knowing this, the significance to the useless habit depicted in the film, namely heroin addiction, is evident.

«I went through 11 years of heroin addiction,» she says.

I first read this in the months following my recovery from heroin addiction and its calming and uplifting effects are still with me today.

The agreements were the capstone on the end of the legislative session, which included previously agreed to legislation on allowing restaurants to serve alcohol before noon on Sundays, combat heroin addiction in the state and expand treatment for and prevention of breast cancer.

I hope this is not hopeless hash, but since the mind makes connections, I had Locke and Lawler on the mind when I began thinking about the problem of heroin addiction in the US.

The Assembly Minority Task Force on Heroin Addiction presented their report Monday in the assembly chamber.

Dr. Matyas is working to develop an effective, safe and easily manufactured combination vaccine that could treat heroin addiction while at the same time prevent HIV infection in those receiving the vaccine.

The measures come in the final days of the legislative session and after lawmakers in both chambers spent months with task forces and roundtables around the state hearing concerns and stories of a growing heroin addiction problem in New York.

The film shows his battle with heroin addiction, his tendency for womanizing, and his pride, although that last one is understandable and makes him as smooth a businessman as a pianist.

Responding to a Sunday Newsday story about Suffolk's 337 fatal overdoses related to heroin in a five - year period — more than any other county in the state — officials said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo should make beds available for inpatient heroin addiction treatment at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood and Sagamore Children's Psychiatric Center in Melville.

Boyle himself has no direct law enforcement experience, but the county Republicans touted his work on combating heroin addiction while in the Senate.

Making things worse, abundant prescription opioids have been diverted for recreational use, which has driven up rates of heroin addiction as users have sought cheaper or more accessible alternatives.

And Indy Politics this week spoke with Congressman Dr. Larry Bucshon about dealing with drug abuse and heroin addiction at the federal level.

The ongoing heroin addiction crisis, which has been particularly acute in Dutchess County, has simple origins, but complex solutions to solve it.

This melancholy indie drama features two lovers who are battling heroin addiction without a hint of desirable outcome in sight.

ALBANY — New York will require insurance companies to provide improved coverage for heroin addiction recovery while stiffening some criminal penalties for sale of the drug under a wide - ranging effort agreed to by state leaders Wednesday.

These events are being held at a time when Erie County is dealing with a severe heroin addiction problem and all residents with medications or needles are encouraged to remove them from their home and drop them off at this event.

Jaclyn Cangro has more on his effort to help, and a look at the county's heroin addiction recovery program.

A Republican - led Senate task force has released a package of bills aimed at combating the growing heroin addiction in New York.

Later on in the class, after a long and serious go at another duo's cold read about heroin addiction, one of the students begins to cry as the director is giving her notes.

A May poll by Siena College found that 92 percent of voters said combating heroin addiction before session ended was «important,» with 70 percent of that group saying that the issue was «very important.»

Hein «personally commended» the legislature for its initiatives in addressing heroin addiction, and said his administration would follow suit.

Heroin addicts who become pregnant should immediately seek heroin addiction treatment before anything untoward happens to her or the baby.

The state's top legislative leaders on Monday insisted the swirling corruption investigations would not derail the remainder of the legislative session, listing a package of top priorities they would like to tackle in the remaining scheduled days in Albany, including tackling heroin addiction.

State legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agree on the concept of passing a package of measure designed to curb heroin addiction in New York and are working out the details, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Wednesday said.

With the battle against heroin addiction ramping up nationwide, Governor Andrew Cuomo last week proclaimed that independent pharmacies across New York may provide the antidote without a prescription.

A protein known as FosB in the reward centre of the brain alters in chronically ill people suffering from an addictive disorder (e.g. heroin addiction): it is genetically modified, split off and shortened.

Meet Real People Who Have Conquered Heroin Addiction and Learn About the Treatments That Really Work

Mr. Cave's onetime heroin addiction is mentioned but only in the context of Christianity, with which Mr. Cave, when asked about religion, says he flirted with during that period.

Nearby in Dayton, Richard runs a recovery clinic while struggling to help his daughter Brittany deal with her own heroin addiction.

Madeleine is kidnapped, forced into heroin addiction and prostitution and blinded in one eye by her captor.

Benny's downward spiral seems almost destined, considering her mother's (Canelle Hoppé) own problems with drugs, particularly a continuing heroin addiction, and Benny handles everything through her creative impulses, either in her filmmaking or in her uses of different wigs and makeup to change her look (and hide the fact that she hasn't been able to wash her hair in a long time).

Dark States saw Louis travel back to the USA (source of so much material for him over the years) and investigate heroin addiction in small - town America, prostitution in Houston, and Milwaukee's high homicide rates.

The regions of the United States with the highest rates of opioid and heroin addiction also happen to be those hardest - hit by economic recession and disruption.

The young artist's heroin addiction eventually led to his death, extinguishing a great talent in the process.

Years of alcoholism and heroin addiction finally blessed me with a gift; a well planned family intervention.

Heroin addiction counseling for the abuser who has stopped using heroin, opiates, or other drugs through detox and drug treatment is a vital part of recovery.

Deals are at hand in Albany to combat heroin addiction and serve alcohol at Sunday brunch, but good - government advocates are blasting the lack of any agreement on ethics or campaign finance reform after years of scandal.

The current approach to treating heroin addiction in Norway is pharmacotherapy — using methadone, subutex or subuxone.

It should be noted, however, that while methadone is effective in dealing with heroin addiction, it does not work with cocaine or crack.

I don't know any young person who would like to lead her kind of life, yet I suspect that teens may be willing to start off on the road to heroin addiction as a dare, as though to say, «Don't worry: I can control the habit.

One big headline item: the new CDC report finding that the opioid and heroin addiction crisis is fueling a massive surge in hepatitis C cases.

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