Gov. Peter Shumlin declared in January that what began as a problem with addiction to opioid painkillers such as Oxycontin and Vicodin has grown into "a full-blown heroin crisis." The number of people seeking treatment for heroin addiction has shot up 250 per cent since 2000. Last year there were 4,000 people. ."
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