DEA agents say ‘We feel like our system was hijacked’

Too BIG to Prosecute for MURDER –  DEC. 17, 2017 - Pharmacist Jeffrey Clawson was selling as many as 2,000…

7 years ago

Suicide Rates Projected To Rise In New Hampshire, Linked To Substance Misuse

Final Exit –  DEC. 11, 2017 - A new, national study has alarming predictions for New Hampshire. The report draws…

7 years ago

Stripped Clean, “Television with Higher Purpose” provides hope and healing in community

Woman with a Mission –  Dec. 17, 2017 - To spread awareness on life’s modern moral issues, Elyria resident Amanda…

7 years ago

Detox can end in death at some ‘non-medical’ SoCal rehabs

Below it All –  Dec. 17, 2017 - “This is the beginning of your beautiful new life!” So began a…

7 years ago

Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Devastation of Addiction

  The Final Eulogy – Mimi O’Donnell Reflects on our Loss Dec. 13, 2017 - His mantra was: We have…

7 years ago

Affleck is Continuing to Receive Treatment for Alcohol Addiction

Ben's Struggle is Epic, Like so Many of Us –  Dec. 15, 2017 - The 45-year-old actor who was photographed…

7 years ago

Inside judge’s rehab: Unpaid work at a local Coca-Cola plant

What 13th Amendment –  Dec. 4, 2017 - But Landrith also is involved in a more sinister byproduct of criminal…

7 years ago

Rehab is lonely place for a gay man like me

The Normal Heart –  Dec. 11, 2017 - After an excruciating eight-year battle with alcohol, I went to rehab. My…

7 years ago

Examining Concerns Of Patient Brokering And Addiction Treatment Fraud

Real Live Testimony –  December 12, 2017 – The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on Tuesday,…

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Opioids on the Quad

Education for Body and Mind –  Oct. 30, 2017 –  Seven students from colleges in the Philadelphia area — including…

7 years ago

He Wanted to Stay Sober. So He Surrounded Himself With Drinkers.

Temptations Strengthen Resolve –  Dec. 8, 2017 – Each night, after closing time at the Manhattan restaurant where Michael McGarry…

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Inmates die, others sickened. Smuggled drugs the suspect.

Jail House Overdose –  Dec. 7, 2017 – Miami-Dade homicide bureau will investigate, as they do with all deaths at…

7 years ago

Medical Pot Is Our Best Hope to Fight the Opioid Epidemic

SAYS WHO? –  Dec. 8, 2017 – Last year, a pharmaceutical company called Insys Therapeutics gave half a million dollars…

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March 6, 2017 – Opioid Advocacy Group Secretly Funded by Pharmaceutical Company

Follow the Money –  March 6, 2017 – the Boston Globe has revealed that Advocates for Opioid Recovery, a new…

7 years ago

FDA Approves Injectable Opioid for America’s Drug Crisis

Perfect 7% Solution? –  Dec. 2, 2017 - Individor, a London-based pharmaceuticals group, are the creators of the newly approved…

7 years ago

What is AYAHUASCA?

Medicine or Mistake? –  Nov. 29, 2017 – ...it has come into vogue as a treatment or psychological tool by…

7 years ago

Lil Peep Od’d on Fentanyl, Xanax & Many Other Drugs

21 and Done –  Dec. 8, 2917 – As we reported, the 21-year-old rapper was found dead on his tour…

7 years ago

Owner faces drug-treatment charges

Stayed Too Long at the Fair –  Dec. 8, 201 – John Michael Skeffington was worried this year as he…

7 years ago

DEA Raided Doctor’s Office for Prescribing High Doses of Painkillers

Chronic Situation –  Dec. 7, 2017 – Tennant’s record is not spotless, however: in 1997 he was fined $625,000 by…

7 years ago

Video series to show path to recovery for opioid users

We Are Everywhere –  December 9, 2017 – One way to reduce the stigma of drug abuse and send a…

7 years ago

Supplements Claiming to Ease Opioid Addiction Come Under Scrutiny

Detox Dangers – Dec. 8, 2017 – Because dietary supplements are regulated differently than food and drugs, these products do…

7 years ago

State enlists recovering addicts to help fight drug crisis

Where One or More are Gathered... –  December 4, 2017 – Experts say recovering addicts can connect with people battling…

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Nov. 7, 2017 – In the Matter of TONMOY SHARMA

Legal Matters –  Nov. 7, 2017  – WHEREFORE, Complainant requests the Respondent Tonmoy Sharma be prohibited for the remainder of…

7 years ago

Recovering addict gives hundreds of coats, hot meals to those in need

Truly Being of Service –  Dec. 8, 2017 – Wanda Lopez grew tired of seeing children shivering at the bus…

7 years ago

Wisconsin moving ahead with plan to drug test food stamp users

Good Deal for Labs –  Dec. 5, 2017 – Florida had a drug test requirement for food stamp recipients that…

7 years ago

‘I orgasmed 50 times day’: Secret world of sex addiction

There is Help Available –  Dec. 10, 2017 – “I engage in high-risk and detrimental sexual behaviours that I have…

7 years ago

Hey, ‘Budtender’: Los Angeles’s Power Brokers of Pot Crank Up the Kook

Haze Hangs over LA Again –  Dec. 9, 2017 – Carli Jo Bidlingmaier was talking to a group of 20-somethings…

7 years ago

‘Opiophobia’ Has Left Africa in Agony

When Pain is Not Just in Your Head –  Dec. 4, 2017 – KAMPALA, Uganda — Pain is only the…

7 years ago

Addiction stories on screen and stage are at an all-time high

Art Imitates Life ... and Death –  Dec. 7, 2017 – The opioid crisis is fueling a rise in Hollywood…

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