11.   But for healing the medical symptoms of heroin addiction, Salsitz equates methadone with what insulin is for diabetics and other medicines are for high blood pressure.

12.   But methadone also creates a physical dependence that can be as strong as heroin addiction.

13.   Decades of experience have shown that methadone treatment is the most effective way to control heroin addiction.

14.   Drug detox specialists said that withdrawal from heroin addiction can be particularly stressful to patients with heart problems or diabetes, although death is rare.

15.   Few movies have ever depicted the consequences of heroin addiction in such graphic detail, but there is one overt plug for the drug.

16.   Garcia had checked in to deal with his heroin addiction, an addiction he apparently had kept from his wife.

17.   He is enrolled in a methadone program for his heroin addiction, he said, but injects cocaine.

18.   He never had any treatment for his heroin addiction.

19.   Frank tells of his heroin addiction among his pals at the Geronimo and of his rehabilitation.

20.   He explained that the war had left him with a heroin addiction, and that it was only to support that addiction that he turned to robbery.