What Sandy Wrought, Part 1: Health-Care Crises Remain a Year After the Storm

Published October 2, 2013

What Sandy Wrought, Part 1: Health-Care Crises Remain a Year After the Storm

Filed under: drug treatment program statistics

They met with a representative from the mayor's office, who, Sheridan-Gonzalez said, “started rattling off these statistics: the number of people that have been helped, the number of bottles of water they've distributed, the number of generators, the …
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Judge tries medical treatment for teen heroin addict

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Statistics from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services show that 36 percent of people treated with naltrexone stayed opiate-free, compared to 20 percent to 50 percent who used the replacement narcotic suboxone and 60 percent for …
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Doctors in British Columbia Are Now Allowed To Prescribe Heroin

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Statistics are hard to come by, but in 2008, a former user described use of the drug in the province as an "epidemic," and a 2010 BBC story called Vancouver, the province's largest city, the "Drug Central of North America. … The results, published in …
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