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Woman Shares Before-and-After Photos of Heroin Addiction — and Looks Amazing
The young woman, who posts as DisregardThisOrDont, wrote of her journey through addiction to recovery, "I realized the only way to get help is to ask."
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Mother Shares Before and After Photos of Meth Addiction, Inspires Many
Dejah Hall’s post about before and after drug addiction has gone viral. One mom’s shocking before-and-after photos — showing how her “disgusting” life had been ravaged by meth, cocaine, and heroin addiction — are going viral for their combo of shock and hope this week. “I was a monster,” Dejah Hall, 26, of Glendale, Ariz., told ABC 15 on Monday (video below).
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Why a drug that can reverse fentanyl overdoses should be available over the counter in Canada
Fentanyl deaths have become an epidemic in Canada, with police and health experts from all across the country warning the public of the drug’s devastating and potentially fatal effects. In Canada, the so-called overdose antidote is available by prescription only in a liquid form that’s administered via an intramuscular injection. Narcan works by quickly reversing the respiratory depression caused by opiates in an overdose.
