Yahoo

I started using opioids when I was 8 and heroin by age 13. Becoming a mom helped me overcome my drug addiction.

I started using opioids when I was 8 and heroin by age 13. Becoming a mom helped me overcome my drug addiction. Erin Khar tried opioids when she was 8 years old and was doing heroin by age 13. She is ...
NBC Los Angeles

Teens Using Prescription Opiods More Likely to Use Heroin Later, USC Study Finds

Teens who use prescription opioids to get high are more likely to start using heroin by high school graduation, according to a USC study released Monday. "Prescription opioids and heroin activate the ...
Staten Island Advance

He thought he was using heroin, then he ‘just dropped.’ Man details the night he almost died and his fight to get clean on Staten Island.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One day in 2021, Christopher M. bought what he believed to be heroin from his regular drug dealer. He and a woman he used drugs with went back to their hotel room, a place they ...
WISH-TV

Number of women using heroin on the rise

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Heroin addiction is a problem with a changing face. Once, it hit only small pockets of the population. But today, it’s so widespread, those hooked on heroin say no one can ...
WPRI 12

Study: More women, higher-income people using heroin

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — New statistics from the Centers for Disease Control are showing the wide-ranging effects of the opiate epidemic. A new report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows ...
WTVD

What to do when you think a loved one is using heroin

If you are worried someone close to you is using heroin, here's a list of resources to help you and your family get the help needed. Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Little Caesars manager, boyfriend accused of using heroin, preparing food with open sores at work

(FOX News) -- A Little Caesars manager in Indiana and her boyfriend were arrested after they were allegedly high on heroin and preparing food with open sores on their body, police said. Sasha Fletcher ...
WFLA News Channel 8

Mother accused of using heroin while giving birth, killing newborn

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The woman accused of shooting heroin while giving birth, killing her newborn, was granted a bond during her first court appearance. Amanda Malpas, 34, was arrested on Thursday ...
Page Six

Demi Lovato was using meth, heroin, cocaine weeks before overdose

Demi Lovato spent the weeks before her near-fatal 2018 overdose experimenting with drugs she had never tried before — and even tempted fate by mixing methamphetamine with molly (MDMA), cocaine, ...
CNN

African-American teens in NYC stop using heroin

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health has found heroin use has all but disappeared among young African Americans in New York City, giving hope to researchers ...
Yahoo

Man admits using parents' credit to support heroin habit

Nov. 13—A man admitted to credit card fraud to support his nearly $140-a-day heroin habit he shares with his girlfriend. On Nov. 8, Tahlequah Police Lt. Dexter Scott met with a woman in regard to a ...