On AlterNet: heroin

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "heroin"

Cameron Douglas Case Brings Calls for Treatment, Not Prison

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. May 22, 2012.

Doctors and organizers say it is unfair to give Douglas, who already did five years on a drug charge, additional time instead of a chance at treatment.

Meet the Group That Gives Addicts Drug Money to Get Sterilized -- and the Right-Wingers That Fund Them

Jed Bickman, The Fix. May 3, 2012.

For years, Project Prevention has been paying poor, addicted women not to procreate -- now, with money from the far right, it's going global.

Former Heroin Addict: Methadone Lets Me Live a "Normal Life," and Prohibiting It Would Be a Public Health Disaster

James Legge, The Guardian. April 27, 2012.

A heroin user of 6 years has been using methadone for some 10 years, and sees forced-abstinence as "a recipe for disaster."

Pavlovian Conditioning for Heroin Addicts: How Manipulating Memory Can Treat Addiction

Mo Costandi, The Guardian. April 16, 2012.

A new study shows that a behavioural procedure that alters memory effectively prevents the cravings of heroin addicts.

New Report Shows Incredible Overdose-Reversing Medication Saved 10,000 Lives

Meghan Ralston, AlterNet. February 16, 2012.

Over the past 15 years, an estimated 10,000 opiate overdoses have been successfully reversed with naloxone by people present at the scene of an overdose.

Drug Company Profiteering, Pill Mills and Thousands of Addicts: How Oxycontin Has Spread Through America

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. June 30, 2011.

Corruption down the line, from Big Pharma to doctors and the war on drugs, builds a growing epidemic and an addiction-fueled empire.

The Living Dead: Why Thousands of Russian Addicts Are Rotting to Death

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. June 24, 2011.

There is a new drug in Russia, and addicts are using it until their skin falls off.

Is the Military Ignoring Its Heroin Problem in the Ranks?

Megan Carpentier, Air America. October 22, 2009.

Occupy the world's largest heroin producer in Afghanistan and it's no wonder the methadone clinics are overpacked -- but the military is mum on the subject.

Drug Eradication in Afghanistan a Complete Failure: Top US Military Officer

Agence France PresseMay 21, 2009.

NATO has failed to stem the vast opium trade in Afghanistan that helps finance Taliban insurgents despite an eight-year effort.

Sugar Is the New Heroin

Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. December 12, 2008.

New research shows sugar addiction is real. Lab rats coming off it exhibit some of the same behavior as junkies in need of a fix.