Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geoffrey Mutebi relapsed after as US funding freeze made it impossible to access the methadone needed to control his heroin ...

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A small Pennsylvania county will pay nearly $5 million to the family of a teenager who collapsed and died after four days of heroin withdrawal in jail. The family's lawyer said jail staff ignored her ...

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LEBANON, Pa. -- In the days following her 18-year-old daughter's arrest on heroin charges, Stephanie Moyer took solace in thinking she would be safe in jail until she got into a treatment program.

The settlement calls for a $600,000 payment to the estate of Brian Kimo O'Gorman after he suffered heart failure while withdrawing from methadone.