Historic Utah Heroin Bust May Have Impacted Many Lives

Historic Utah heroin bust may have impacted many lives

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At the height of his addiction, Leland was smoking a gram of heroin per day. Local narcotics officers say that is probably a little more than the average addict, but they have encountered users who were consuming as much as two or three grams a day.
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Could blood test one day predict suicide risk?

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Miltefosine, a potentially life-saving experimental drug to treat people infected with a rare but deadly brain-eating amoeba, is now available to U.S. doctors directly from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Miltefosine, a potentially life-saving …
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Krauthammer: If starting society from scratch 'I would outlaw alcohol and I'd …

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And we — it's interesting that we should study what happens in Washington and Colorado because we will see, as the social science comes in, has this had an effect on addiction to harder drugs, has this had an effect on auto accidents?” “And, you know …
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