How Did Idyllic Vermont Become America's Heroin Capital

Published February 7, 2014

How did idyllic Vermont become America's heroin capital
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Biden can't think of reason not to run … The highways running into Vermont from cities like Boston, New York, Holyoke and Springfield have become heroin pipelines. As Shumlin noted, heroin-related deaths nearly doubled in the last year alone, and the … Read more on Politico

Friday night topic: Addictions and quitting
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I have to say, I'm not entirely sure I can relate to that struggle, but perhaps I'm wrong. My only real addiction is to … For instance, the modern, fashionable thing is to portray drug use as destructively and irresistibly addictive, which it surely … Read more on The Tech Report, LLC

Philip Seymour Hoffman's death points to broader opioid drug epidemic
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These are, in effect, tandem epidemics — an addiction crisis driven by the powerful effects on the human brain of drugs derived from morphine. (Patterson Clark / The Washington Post/Source: CDC). More stories on heroin … The stigma and lethality of … Read more on Washington Post