The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction

The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction
[rewrite]Caption from LIFE. "The tears that rolled down Chad Harris's cheeks were partly a symptom of withdrawal: he hadn't had a fix in 14 hours. But he was also crying out of fear that he wouldn't be accepted into the drug treatment program at California's …[/rewrite]
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The class war on drug users
[rewrite]Peter Shumlin wants to use the moment of arrest as an opportunity to steer drug users into treatment instead of prison. He wants to treat addiction as the medical problem it is. That approach costs far less. Jailing someone in Vermont for a week costs …[/rewrite]
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Overdosing on heroin: This drug can bring them back
[rewrite]"Interestingly, we have received several calls for auto accidents," an Ohio emergency medical technician, or EMT, noted in a state addiction treatment survey published in November. "Apparently, some users are stopping in the parking lot, putting their …[/rewrite]
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