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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...

“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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...