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Index
Index
Note: Boldface page numbers
indicate illustrations.
Above the Influence, 35
abscesses, 35–36
Adams, Taite, 28, 49
addiction
health risks of, 18
to heroin vs. morphine, 29
likelihood of, from heroin use,
8, 11–12
overcoming, 9, 19–20
prevalence of, 41
signs of, 16, 18
See also
prevention/prevention
programs; treatment
Alvarez, Manny, 21, 71
Associated Press, 23, 24, 47, 59,
60, 62
Association for Addiction
Professionals (NAADAC), 54
Baler, Ruben, 19
black tar heroin, 12
brain
addiction and, 12, 44
effects of heroin on, 38–39, 44
mechanism by which heroin
affects, 15–16
Brownfield, William, 73
buprenorphine, 51,
60
Burke, Kathleen M., 67
Business Insider
(magazine), 53–54
Capretto, Neil, 21
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), 38, 45
Central City Concern, 54–55
Cicero, Theodore J., 22–23
Cimons, Ben, 10–11
Comey, James B., 15, 21
Condon, Timothy P., 10, 44, 58,
63
Confront the Elephant program,
67–68
deaths
from hepatitis C, 37
from heroin overdose
increase in, 22, 30, 32
in Maryland, 46
in Minnesota, 33
reasons for, 18–19
by state,
47
in Vermont, 26
from tainted heroin, 48
DeCaluwe, DeAnna, 68
Department of Health and
Human Services, US, 31, 37
Donnelly, Margaret T., 60
dopamine, 16
Douglas, Dan, 25
Drexler, Karen, 39–40
Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA), 15, 30,
34, 43
Drug Policy Alliance, 73, 74
Eisen, Lauren-Brooke, 64, 70
