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TPC Series-Seven

Welfare Reform Will Force Addicts Into Treatment and Directed Care (Last in a series of reports from the front line of the battle against heroin.) Yesterday, I suggested how much money could be saved by managing, or “directing,” all the...

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TPC Series-Six

“Street Smart Medicine” (Sixth in a series of reports from the front line of the battle against heroin.) Yesterday, I focused on how methadone clinics such as Turning Point benefit the community, in spite of the unfortunate and somewhat...

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TPC Series-Five

Methadone Clinics Are A Vast Benefit To The Community (Fifth in a series of reports from the front line of the battle against heroin.) Yesterday, I discussed why so few heroin addicts have any interest in sustained treatment.  Getting them into...

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TPC Series-Four

The Calculus Of Substance Abuse Recovery (Fourth in a series of reports from the front line of the battle against heroin.) Yesterday, I introduced the concept that any inner-city methadone clinic, like Turning Point, is really two clinics:  A...

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TPC Series-Three

Substance Abuse Treatment Is The Art Of The Possible (Third in a series of reports from the front line of the battle against heroin.) Yesterday, I developed a reasonable estimate of the MINIMUM number of heroin addicts in Baltimore City,...

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TPC Series-Two

Baltimore Really Does Have AT LEAST 60,000 Heroin Addicts (Second in a series of reports from the front line of the battle against heroin.) In yesterday’s Report, I said we need a Substance Abuse Treatment Reformation if we are to...

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TPC Series-One

IT’S HIGH TIME WE RETHINK THE ROLE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE CLINICS AS BALTIMORE AND AMERICA FIGHT TO ESCAPE THE HELL OF HEROIN ADDICTION (This is the first in a series of seven reports from the front line in the on-going battle against heroin...

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Hogan to declare state of emergency on heroin addiction 12/14

https://www.abc2news.com/news/state/hogan-to-declare-state-of-emergency-on-heroin-addiction WMAR-Channel 2, Baltimore’s ABC affiliate, in a report on Gov.-elect Larry Hogan’s plans to declare a heroin “state of emergency” once he takes...

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CBS Baltimore – Hogan Declare State Of Emergency

Md. pharmacies to stock heroin antidote 12/14

https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-naloxone-20141209-story.html The Baltimore Sun, in an article about the rise in heroin use in the State of Maryland, quotes Rev. Williams, “The governor-elect is going to bring a whole new strategy,...

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