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What's more, help for heroin users is becoming increasingly patchy. Like all public services, drug treatment has been seriously squeezed during austerity. As a result, scores of drug services around the country have been either downsized or shut down. The number of outreach workers – those trained to go into the streets to look after drug users – has fallen dramatically. This means there's less care for people with addictions (even for those officially in drug treatment), a factor that heightens the chance of people dying of overdoses.READ ON MOTHERBOARD: Meet the 'Fake Heroin' Behind the Next Overdose Epidemic
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