Jim Cagey and Anne Roberts with a photo of their son Patrick at their Lexington, Kentucky home.

Heroin Use Is On the Rise, But New Treatments Are Being Ignored

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 2, 2015

Jason Cherkis and Ryan Grim discuss their one year investigation, published in The Huffington Post, of how heroin addiction programs are failing addicts in Kentucky. Suboxone is an alternative to the controversial methadone detox method used to treat heroin addiction, but very few doctors are using it. Instead, standard treatment for heroin addicts has remained unchanged for decades, and things are getting much worse. 

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