Haven for recovering addicts profits from relapses
Florida
IN Florida, heroin overdoses long ago elbowed out car crashes and routine health issues as the most common medical emergencies. Last year, Delray Beach Fire-Rescue paramedics responded to 748 overdose calls, 65 ended in deaths. Palm Beach County dealt with 5,000 overdose calls.
Unlike other places in the US that have been clobbered by the opioid crisis, most of the young people who overdose in Delray Beach are not from Florida. They are visitors, mostly from the Northeast and Midwest, and they come for opioid addiction treatment and recovery help to a town that has long been hailed as a lifeline for substance abusers.
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