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He Told Police His Wife Overdosed. The Shallow Grave Told A Darker Story.
It took a search dog only five minutes to discover the body 250 yards down a trail twisting through the woods in Fairfield, Maine. Valerie Tieman - officially missing for 11 days - was found wrapped in an orange, black and white blanket, the Central Maine Morning Sentinel would later report.
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Indiana Releases Picture Of Mom Overdosed As An 'Educational Tool'
Authorities in the US state of Indiana has released shocking pictures of a mother found overdosed behind the wheel and her 10-month-old son crying in the back seat to raise awareness about the growing heroin epidemic.
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'Mommy Died Last Night': Father Videotapes Moment He Tells 8-Year-Old Of Mother's Heroin Overdose
Brenden Clark sat across from his 8-year-old son at a picnic table in northeastern Ohio, preparing to deliver devastating news.
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A New Threat In fight Against Overdoses: Elephant Sedative
A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals, 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country's heroin troubles, is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states, where authorities say they've found it mixed with or passed off as heroin.
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Overdose Deaths In US Hit Record High
More people died of drug overdoses last year in the United States than ever before, largely due to disturbing increases in prescription painkillers and heroin use, health authorities said Friday.
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Drug Overdose Epidemic Top Cause of US Injury Deaths
Drug overdoses have reached epidemic levels in the United States where they are the leading cause of injury deaths, surpassing car accidents and gunshots, the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Wednesday.
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This Father's Painfully Honest Obituary for Daughter Will Break Your Heart
There is perhaps no tragedy more heartrending than a parent losing a child.
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Heroin Overdose Killed Peaches Geldof: Coroner
A British coroner has concluded that model and TV personality Peaches Geldof died from a heroin overdose.
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Woman in Google Exec Case Linked to Second Death
Two months before police say a woman calmly left a Google executive dying from a heroin overdose on his yacht, she panicked on the phone with a police dispatcher as her boyfriend lay on the floor of their home in the throes of a fatal overdose.
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Deaths by Prescription Painkillers on the Rise in US, Canada
More people in the United States and Canada are dying from common prescription painkillers than from overdoses of heroin and cocaine combined, a study reveals.
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Peaches Geldof 'Died of Heroin Overdose': Report
Live Aid founder Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches died of a heroin overdose, the same cause of death as her mother Paul Yates in 2000, Britain's Times newspaper reported on Thursday.
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US: Heroin an 'urgent public health crisis'
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is calling the increase in heroin-related deaths an "urgent public health crisis" and says first responders should carry with them drugs to reverse the effects of an overdose.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death spotlights heroin epidemic in US
The shocking death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a suspected drugs overdose has spotlighted a growing epidemic of heroin use across the United States, officials warn.
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Cory Monteith died of drug overdose: Coroner
Glee actor Cory Monteith, who had struggled for years with substance abuse and once said he was lucky to be alive, died of an overdose of heroin and alcohol, said the British Columbia coroner's office.
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Bon Jovi's daughter ODs on heroin, claim cops
Jon Bon Jovi's daughter Stephanie Bongiovi was hospitalised and facing drug charges on Wednesday after overdosing on heroin in a dorm at her college in upstate New York.
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He Told Police His Wife Overdosed. The Shallow Grave Told A Darker Story.
It took a search dog only five minutes to discover the body 250 yards down a trail twisting through the woods in Fairfield, Maine. Valerie Tieman - officially missing for 11 days - was found wrapped in an orange, black and white blanket, the Central Maine Morning Sentinel would later report.
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Indiana Releases Picture Of Mom Overdosed As An 'Educational Tool'
Authorities in the US state of Indiana has released shocking pictures of a mother found overdosed behind the wheel and her 10-month-old son crying in the back seat to raise awareness about the growing heroin epidemic.
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'Mommy Died Last Night': Father Videotapes Moment He Tells 8-Year-Old Of Mother's Heroin Overdose
Brenden Clark sat across from his 8-year-old son at a picnic table in northeastern Ohio, preparing to deliver devastating news.
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A New Threat In fight Against Overdoses: Elephant Sedative
A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals, 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country's heroin troubles, is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states, where authorities say they've found it mixed with or passed off as heroin.
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Overdose Deaths In US Hit Record High
More people died of drug overdoses last year in the United States than ever before, largely due to disturbing increases in prescription painkillers and heroin use, health authorities said Friday.
-
Drug Overdose Epidemic Top Cause of US Injury Deaths
Drug overdoses have reached epidemic levels in the United States where they are the leading cause of injury deaths, surpassing car accidents and gunshots, the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Wednesday.
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This Father's Painfully Honest Obituary for Daughter Will Break Your Heart
There is perhaps no tragedy more heartrending than a parent losing a child.
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Heroin Overdose Killed Peaches Geldof: Coroner
A British coroner has concluded that model and TV personality Peaches Geldof died from a heroin overdose.
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Woman in Google Exec Case Linked to Second Death
Two months before police say a woman calmly left a Google executive dying from a heroin overdose on his yacht, she panicked on the phone with a police dispatcher as her boyfriend lay on the floor of their home in the throes of a fatal overdose.
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Deaths by Prescription Painkillers on the Rise in US, Canada
More people in the United States and Canada are dying from common prescription painkillers than from overdoses of heroin and cocaine combined, a study reveals.
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Peaches Geldof 'Died of Heroin Overdose': Report
Live Aid founder Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches died of a heroin overdose, the same cause of death as her mother Paul Yates in 2000, Britain's Times newspaper reported on Thursday.
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US: Heroin an 'urgent public health crisis'
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is calling the increase in heroin-related deaths an "urgent public health crisis" and says first responders should carry with them drugs to reverse the effects of an overdose.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death spotlights heroin epidemic in US
The shocking death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from a suspected drugs overdose has spotlighted a growing epidemic of heroin use across the United States, officials warn.
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Cory Monteith died of drug overdose: Coroner
Glee actor Cory Monteith, who had struggled for years with substance abuse and once said he was lucky to be alive, died of an overdose of heroin and alcohol, said the British Columbia coroner's office.
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Bon Jovi's daughter ODs on heroin, claim cops
Jon Bon Jovi's daughter Stephanie Bongiovi was hospitalised and facing drug charges on Wednesday after overdosing on heroin in a dorm at her college in upstate New York.
