Heroin Fast Becoming Ulster County's 'Most Prevalent' Drug (VIDEO)

Published March 30, 2014

Heroin fast becoming Ulster County's 'most prevalent' drug (VIDEO)
Between 2002 and 2010, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said the number of persons who reported using heroin over the past year grew by 50% from 400,000 to 600,000 (nationwide), according to Harvard's Shorenstein …
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More women battling addiction
The report said that 42 women die of a drug overdose in the United States each day. More than 940,000 were seen in emergency rooms nationwide for drug misuse or abuse in 2010. About 200,000 of those visits were for opiates, including heroin and …
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Effort launched for new drug rehab unit
West Virginia has been at the center of the substance abuse debate for years. According to a 2013 study, the state has the highest overdose death rate in the nation – a rate that increased sixfold between 1999 and 2010. According to Foster, the …
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Marijuana legalization opponent Heidi Heilman says today's marijuana is three …
Critics of legalization argue that the street drug now available for sale is not the marijuana that a lot of baby boomers and Generation Xers have used. One of them, Heidi Heilman, director of … "Such dangerous levels of THC heighten mental illness …
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