Articles filed under Heroin
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Buffalo Grove police team with anti-heroin group to offer treatment, preventionFeb 04, 2015 12:00 am - Buffalo Grove police are teaming with Live4Lali, Inc., a social service nonprofit agency, to build awareness about the abuse of heroin and other opioids in the community...
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Hanover Park man gets 8 years for heroin deathJan 30, 2015 12:01 am - A Hanover Park man has been sentenced to eight years in prison on his guilty plea to a charge of drug-induced homicide in the death of a 15-year-old Bartlett boy on July...
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Naperville police use heroin antidote to save 17-year-oldJan 29, 2015 12:01 am - Newly trained Naperville police officers saved a 17-year-old girl's life last weekend when they used a drug that reverses the effects of a heroin overdose for the first ...
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Woman guilty in South Elgin heroin overdose deathJan 29, 2015 12:00 am - A South Elgin woman faces six to 30 years in prison after being convicted of supplying heroin to a woman in 2013 who died from an overdose. A jury took 40 minutes Wednes...
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Naperville forum examines 'what's behind' heroin epidemicJan 28, 2015 12:00 am - Heroin is the buzzword that brought more than 100 people to a forum Tuesday night at Linden Oaks at Edward behavioral health center in Naperville to learn about the drug...
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Robert Crown hosting open house this SaturdayJan 27, 2015 10:00 pm - When it comes to drug prevention, experts say parents often don't know how to discuss the topic with their kids. The Robert Crown Center for Health Education is offering...
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Treatment centers, insurance work to agree on heroin careJan 25, 2015 6:30 am - When someone wants treatment to end a heroin addiction, insurance shouldn't hold him back. That's the perspective of addiction treatment professionals who say the bigge...
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Teen drug treatment addresses motivation, relationshipsJan 25, 2015 6:00 am - The younger the heroin user, the less likely he or she is to be in treatment by choice. When teens are in detox, rehab or counseling, it's likely they were forced to jo...
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Heroin recovery treatment 'a partnership, a collaboration,' counselors sayJan 25, 2015 6:00 am - Treatment isn't magic. When it comes to heroin, there's no wand to wave and no spell to recite. There's no potion to loosen the hold of the drug on those who've tried i...
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Schaumburg heroin addict's daughters hold out hope for momJan 09, 2015 4:00 am - Jaida and Mikayla see two possible futures for their mother. In the good one, Tracy Perry-Belz breaks free from her heroin addiction, gets a job, buys a house and become...