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Life Is Hell After Narcan, Heroin’s Miracle Cure

REALITY CHECK

The media is hooked on stories of overdoses being magically reversed by wonder drug naloxone, but what often follows is arrests, pain, and more addiction.

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PHILADELPHIA — Michael Charles Meeney turned 26 in jail on March 2, a week after his arrest for misdemeanor heroin possession. But his entire life may as well boil down to an inglorious 30 seconds of tightly edited video, played on local news channels, that shows him nearly dying.

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