The ongoing heroin epidemic in the U.S. has grown to the point where it is garnering coverage in other countries. A recent Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) feature profiled a suburban Maryland mom who was enjoying her first Mother’s Day in 10 years with her three children—the first in which she wasn’t high on heroin. Hooked […]
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In April 2014, a mother in South Carolina was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of homicide by child abuse, involuntary manslaughter and unlawful conduct toward a child. Her real crime was allegedly passing on morphine to her baby through breast milk. When the infant died in November 2010 at just six […]
Heroin is enough of a problem for those who knowingly use it. Now, a Washington state father has been charged with trying to kill his four-year-old son by injecting him with the drug. While the dad pleaded not guilty to attempted first-degree murder, the 37-year-old man is accused of overdosing his young son at home […]
The annual National Drug Threat Assessment report is out, and Mexico, club drugs and prescription abuse all top the list of concerns. The recently released National Drug Threat Assessment 2010 report is out and it’s pointing the finger at the expanding Mexican drug cartels, growing prescription abuse and Asian ecstasy coming in by way of […]
It’s highly addictive and still one of the most popular drugs around, but what is heroin, what are the dangers and what does it take to kick the habit? It’s an odd thing to realize, but just like hot diets and fashion fads, drugs go through cycles of popularity. When it comes to heroin, it […]