Promising heroin treatment unavailable in many states
Clip: 1/28/2015 | 7m 28s
Why a promising heroin addiction treatment is unavailable in many states
More than 90 percent of heroin users who detox cold turkey will relapse, but there’s a dispute over prescribing drugs to help addicts get clean and keep them from deadly overdoses. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post about the recent rise of heroin and the debate over addiction treatment.
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Promising heroin treatment unavailable in many states
Clip: 1/28/2015 | 7m 28s
More than 90 percent of heroin users who detox cold turkey will relapse, but there’s a dispute over prescribing drugs to help addicts get clean and keep them from deadly overdoses. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post about the recent rise of heroin and the debate over addiction treatment.
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