Remembering those who died from heroin addiction

Remembering those who died from heroin addiction.

H o m e is a gilded bronze flame made of highly polished bronze and housed in a frame made from Irish limestone.The flame will stand in the inner part of the frame in a space that is exactly the size of an ordinary hall door. Leo Higgi n s d e s c ribes his work as evoking “ m e m ories of home where those who are gone are never forgotten and always remembered proudly, in a quiet and dignified ...

Heroin addiction and pregnancy.

Pregnant heroin addicts tend to be younger than nonaddicted pregnant patients, unmarried or separated from spouses, and a disproportionately large number are members of minority ethnic groups. Heroin addiction during pregnancy is associated with several significant medical and obstetrical complications and may result in both acute and chronic abnormalities in neonates. Malnutrition, venereal di...

Health care restructuring and family physician care for those who died of cancer

BACKGROUND During the 1990s, health care restructuring in Nova Scotia resulted in downsized hospitals, reduced inpatient length of stay, capped physician incomes and restricted practice locations. Concurrently, the provincial homecare program was redeveloped and out-of-hospital cancer deaths increased from 20% (1992) to 30% (1998). These factors all pointed to a transfer of end-of-life inpatien...

‘The children of those who died of kuru are today still alive’

I was approximately 12 years old living in Agakamatasa village when Dr Carleton Gajdusek came and stayed with us in the village. I was selected by Carleton among other boys to help him take photographs of the village and the people. We toured other provinces and visited Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Hoskins, Chimbu and Mt Hagen in search of kuru disease but we found nothing. We settled down in South For...

Cutaneous clues to heroin addiction.