Nurses Help Addicts Inject Heroin at Controversial Clinic Battling H.I.V.

Nurses help addicts inject heroin at controversial clinic battling H.I.V.
… reach populations: intravenous drug addicts. Correspondent William Brangham examines the ways that medical professionals are taking on the spread of H.I.V, including a look inside a controversial facility where nurses help drug addicts inject …
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Heroin at the ER: Medical professionals try to save people from overdoses
The last two bills would create regional treatment centers and require the Department of Corrections to establish a system of quick sanctions for offenders who violate parole or probation in hopes of getting addicts treatment faster. The Assembly …
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To Stop an Overdose: Heroin, Narcan and the New Public Policies That Are
A person who takes a fatal dose of heroin or other opiate-based drug and stops breathing can often quickly be brought back if a friend, family member or medical professional has naloxone on hand and knows how to use it. …. noncoercive drug treatment …
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