The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction
The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction
Caption from LIFE. "The tears that rolled down Chad Harris's cheeks were partly a symptom of withdrawal: he hadn't had a fix in 14 hours. But he was also crying out of fear that he wouldn't be accepted into the drug treatment program at California's …
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Staying clean
Patients seeking to recover are sometimes prescribed methadone, a synthetic narcotic taken once a day “to stop withdrawal symptoms and reduce opiate cravings”. Some patients are put on suboxone to help their recovery. CHC is treating more than 400 …
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