Tag: Marvin’s Corner
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Think you’re isolated during the pandemic? Just ask an addict
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org As healthy Americans struggle with social isolation in a pandemic, the Rev. Nathaniel Wilcox reminds them that for drug addicts, isolation is a way of life.
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As heroin, fentanyl deaths mount, Miami-Dade leaders “research the topic”
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org Three months after presenting a plan to Miami-Dade commissioners to tackle an alarming rise in overdose deaths, drug-addiction experts say the county has not moved quickly enough to curb the local opiate epidemic.
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Too many heroin addicts, too few treatment beds; The runaround in Miami-Dade
By Francisco Alvarado BrowardBulldog.org As a heroin epidemic builds in South Florida, one drug interventionist is finding it difficult to get Miami-Dade County’s assistance to open a long-term treatment facility.