In interviews in recent years, Dr. Newton had acknowledged drinking two quarts of cognac a day and abusing cocaine, heroin and Valium.

Failed attempts at reconciliation with Linda and with her mother, Kathleen (Mercedes Ruehl), drive Gia to begin abusing heroin.

In 1969 at age 22, Christman went through a difficult period abusing heroin in San Francisco, California.

Another application that has been trialled in the Netherlands is prescription of oral dextromoramide as a way to try to reduce injecting drug use in recidivist opioid addicts who continued to abuse heroin despite being maintained on methadone.

"If we can find the gene and learn what the gene's products are, we may be able to prevent people from abusing heroin."

Before the age of 18 he was abusing alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.

In 2004, American hospital emergency rooms treated 400,000 patients between the ages 35 and 64 for abusing heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, hallucinogens and "club drugs" like ecstasy.

A methadone clinic is a clinic which has been established for the dispensing of methadone (Dolophine), a schedule II narcotic analgesic, to those who abuse heroin and other opiates.

The man had spent large chunks of his life abusing heroin and wandering the streets of New York City before he contracted the virus that causes AIDS.

Mr. Howard explained the coupon rules: "You have to be actively abusing heroin."