FBI announces 61 arrests of online opioid traffickers in coordinated Dark Web effort

BREAKING NEWS / VIDEO – MARCH 26, 2019 - “Law enforcement is most effective when we work together, and J-CODE…

6 years ago

Harvard say soda and sports drinks increase risk of dying

Are You Drinking Death Every Day? – MAR. 18 2019 - Drinking soda, sports drinks and other sugary beverages increases…

6 years ago

Landmark ruling for parity coverage of mental health and addiction treatment

Progress! – MARCH 18, 2019 - The ruling came in the case of Wit v. United Behavioral Health (UBH). A…

6 years ago

There’s nothing cute about Crack Pie

Tastes Good, in Bad Taste – MARCH 19, 2019 - Milk Bar debuted in 2008, a spinoff of David Chang’s…

6 years ago

Health chief backs needle exchanges in anti-HIV strategy

The Message Matters – March 19, 2019 - “Syringe services programs aren’t necessarily the first thing that comes to mind…

6 years ago

Guggenheim Museum “Does Not Plan to Accept Any Gifts” from the Sackler Family

No Drug Money for Art – March 22, 2019 – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York confirmed that…

6 years ago

Executive Corner with Sabrina Acatrinei

Stick with the Winners! – Sabrina Acatrinei has 13 years experience in case management and medical insurance. She holds a…

6 years ago

Tate Galleries Will Refuse Sackler Money Because of Opioid Links

Even the English Reject Drug Money – March 21, 2019 -  “The Sackler family has given generously to Tate in…

6 years ago

Dax Shepard’s Sobriety Is Everything to Kristen Bell

Love AA Style – March 23, 2019 - Every year on Shepard’s sober birthday, Bell “spoils the hell out of…

6 years ago

Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless

Ignorance Is Bliss – March 11, 2019 - The diseases have flared as the nation’s homeless population has grown in…

6 years ago

Organic Food, Sustainable Fashion And Cocaine

Why Are The Woke Doing So Much Coke? – March 23, 2019 - Many may feel like a big cooked…

6 years ago

Fentanyl deaths skyrocketed more than 1,000% over six years in the US

Here’s Who It’s Killing – March 21, 2019 - Researchers also found that while whites had the highest overall rates…

6 years ago

Addiction: The New Retirement Threat

Taking ‘bout My Generation – March 22, 2019  - It’s been a tortuous journey. At one point, the 55-year-old drove…

6 years ago

PGA Tour suspends Garrigus after positive pot test

Weed Sends Golfer into the Rough – Mar, 22, 2019 - The tour announced Friday that Garrigus, whose only PGA…

6 years ago

Health Experts Push To Decriminalize Addiction Treatment Drug

INSANITY – MAR. 22, 2019 -  It’s been six years since Scott Pavek stopped using opioids. But he wanted out…

6 years ago

Compassion Not Contempt: Interview with Maia Szalavitz

LEGALIZE ALL DRUGS! – Mar. 18, 2019 - The number one cause of addiction stigma is the fact that drugs…

6 years ago

Scientists Have Cured Alcoholic Rats by Shooting Lasers at Their Brains

Too Bad for Rat Taverns – March 22, 2019 - “What is so exciting about these findings is that we…

6 years ago

Overdose Death Doctor Loses Latest Appeal

Make Him the Prison Proctologist – Mar. 20, 2019 - Hsiu-Ying “Lisa’’ Tseng was convicted in October 2015 of three…

6 years ago

TEN DRUGS: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW – March 22, 2019 - as Thomas Hager, a historian of medicine and science, explains in…

6 years ago

Trigger Warnings May Not Do Much

Don’t Look Now – March 22, 2019 - “Although people were distressed by the negative materials we showed them, they…

6 years ago

Former DEA official now working for OxyContin maker

Double Agent – March 20, 2019 - Purdue Pharma, the maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, is one of the…

6 years ago

Elton John Biopic Expected to Get R-Rating for Sex, Drug Scenes

Move Over Bohemian Rhapsody – March 22, 2019 - Rocketman, Paramount’s Elton John musical, is expected to be rated R…

6 years ago

War on Opioid Abuse Is Striking the Wrong Target

War = Murder – March 21, 2019 - Patients in pain have become collateral damage in the war on opioids.…

6 years ago

Drug Companies Are Making the Opioid Crisis Worse

Risky Business – March 14, 2019 - Marketing to physicians is only one of the strategies employed by opioid manufacturers.…

6 years ago

Wendy Williams’ Husband Speaks Out About Her Sobriety: ‘It’s Family Process’

House is Not a Home – March 22, 2019 - After Williams, 54, revealed on-air Tuesday that she’s been living…

6 years ago

Drug rehab made millions off patients’ relapses, PA. attorney general charges

An Industry With No Defense  – March 25, 2019 - The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office charged Jason Gerner, the cofounder…

6 years ago

Wendy Williams’ Heroic Televised Disclosure

Rigorous Honesty – March 19, 2019 - Williams said the only other people who knew that she was staying at…

6 years ago

A real link between opioid use and people not working

Duh? – March 12, 2019 - States that prescribe more opioids per 100 people tend to have fewer people in…

6 years ago

New recovery program shows users are more likely to stay sober if they help others

“It is better to give than to receive” -JC – March 3, 2019 - The National Institute on Drug Abuse…

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Opioid use in the family may influence adolescents’ opioid risk after surgery

It’s a Family Affair – February 27, 2019 - The presence of one or more family members using long-term opioids…

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