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Perspectives in a City Plagued with Overdose Deaths

THERE IS A SOLUTION? – May 30, 2023 - Joining MORI took Molinski out of the office, where she most often worked with patients, and into their lives. “My experience with patients in the past had been in an offi... Read More...

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JUST IN! Super Wealthy Sackler Family Shielded from Opioid Lawsuits, Court Rules

HE WHO HAS THE GOLD MAKES THE LAW – May 30, 2023 - The second US circuit court of appeals in New York determined the company can shield its owners from legal claims in exchange for a $6bn contribution to the company’... Read More...

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NEW Nasal Spray Reverses Fentanyl Overdoses

LIFESAVER – May 22, 2023 - The Food and Drug Administration endorsed Opvee, a nasal spray update of the drug nalmefene, which was first approved as an injection in the mid-1990s but later removed from the market due ... Read More...

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Antidepressants Have Destroyed My Sexual Function and Range of Emotions

GOT TO GET IT UP – May 23, 2023 - This made me lethargic, tired all the time and unmotivated to do my job. I figured this was my ‘underlying depression’ and not the SSRIs. After a few more months I wen... Read More...

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Can Ozempic Help People Beat Addiction?

VIDEO – BULLSHIT? – May 23, 2023 - Many have turned to diabetes drug Ozempic to lose weight, but some are reporting it has helped them curb their addictions as well. Neurologist Dr. Thomas Pitts explains tha... Read More...

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Mom’s Glamorous Life Rocked by Ambien Addiction

VIDEO – GOOD STASH – May 12, 2023 - Four years in, I was taking two pills to get to sleep and a whole one in the middle of the night. The sixth year, which was 2008, I was taking 10 pills — nine at night and then br... Read More...

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Is Being ‘Pre-Addicted’ a Real Thing?

MAYBE – May 12, 2023 - The word “addiction” is probably over-used in our culture. Clinically, it means compulsive use of drugs; colloquially, we stretch its use to refer to addiction to things that probably don’t fit... Read More...

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DEA’s Fentanyl Investigations

VIDEO – NEVER ENDING – May 15, 2023 - “The days of needing to go in some dark alley to get drugs, now you can just … Young people especially are going online,” Forget said. “Knowing who your children hang out with in... Read More...

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Antidepressants Used for Chronic Pain Lack Efficacy

BIG PHARMA STRIKES AGAIN – May 11, 2023 - “This is a global public health concern,” said Tamar Pincus, lead author on the study and a professor at the University of Southampton. “Chronic pain is a problem for million... Read More...

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Behind the Documentary| Fighting Addiction

VIDEO – MUST WATCH – May 16, 2023 - 1. Addiction is such a cunning enemy of everyone, starting from the addict who is totally destroyed to become servant of this malicious desease ... 2. My first husband died of alco... Read More...

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Overdoses Slightly Increased Again, But Experts Hopeful

HOPE NOT DOPE – May 17, 2023 - An estimated 109,680 overdose deaths occurred last year, according to numbers posted Wednesday by the CDC. That’s about 2% more than the 107,622 U.S. overdose deaths in 2021, but ... Read More...

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Naloxone has been hailed as life-saving. Why isn’t it given to those who need it?

I WONDER – May 19, 2023 - Chakravarthy, whose hospital is in northern Orange county, has in recent years, like many other medical providers across the country, seen an increase in fentanyl use, which is as much as 50... Read More...

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Regulating Sober Living Homes

NO SO FAST THERE – May 17, 2023 - The Buena Park City Council voted 4-0 at its May 9 meeting to impose stricter regulations on group homes. This proposal came after resident complaints of construction during early... Read More...

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A Searing Analysis of Racial Capitalism and Opioids

IT IS BLACK & WHITE – May 11, 2023 - Whiteout is written by three uniquely qualified individuals whose research and writing overlap. As a result, the book includes an astonishing amount of material backing ... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 23 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin

Walgreens Pays San Francisco $230M for Role in Opioid Epidemic

HOW MUCH DID THEY PROFIT? – May 17, 2023 - Walgreens has agreed to pay San Francisco nearly $230 million to settle a lawsuit over its role in the city’s opioid crisis, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sai... Read More...

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Inside the Emerging Xylazine Addiction Crisis

TIME TO LEGALIZE HEROIN? – May 18, 2023 - Xylazine has taken a stronghold in Philadelphia, a city at the forefront of addiction crisis and care. A 2021 study conducted by the city’s public health department fou... Read More...

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‘Stimulants Are Back’

FAST AND FURIOUS X – May 14, 2023 - Nearly 2 percent of the U.S. population reported cocaine use in 2020, and the highly addictive substance was involved in nearly one in five overdose deaths, according to the Center... Read More...

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New Bill to Use Mobile Pharmacies in Treating Opioid Addiction

VIDEO – TAKING IT TO THE STREETS – May 5, 2023 - A new bill aims to address the deadly fentanyl crisis by making it easier to get treatment to those who need it. The bill allows local jurisdictions to use mobile p... Read More...

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Canadian Opens Shop Selling Coke, MDMA and Heroin

A WORTHY RADICAL IDEA! – May 10, 2023 - BC is a province with a population of around five million people, which, for context, is significantly less than London’s roughly nine million people. In BC, an average o... Read More...

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Flesh-Eating Drug Chewing Up Los Angeles

NO AGENTS CALLING NOW – May 10, 2023 - In early March, county health officials initially said they weren’t sure whether the deadly adulterant had begun appearing on the streets of Los Angeles. Weeks later, the Times ... Read More...

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How Fentanyl Became So Deadly

VIDEO – MONEY – May 5, 2023 - Fentanyl was not created to be used recreationally or bought and sold on the street. In the early 1960s the synthetic opioid was manufactured and approved by the FDA a few years... Read More...

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Netflix Tackles Opioid Crisis with Painkiller

THANK YOU NETFLIX – May 8, 2023 - Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s New Yorker article “The Family That Build an Empire of Pain,” and Barry Meier’s book, Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America... Read More...

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St. Louis DEA Seizes 1,300,000 Fentanyl Pills

VIDEO – PEOPLE MUST REALLY LOVE THIS DRUG – May 9, 2023 - ST. LOUIS — A year-long operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) put thousands of accused drug dealers behind bars. The DEA St. Louis Divisio... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMay 16 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma

DEA May Limit Access to Buprenorphine

REALLY? – May 2, 2023 - Since 2020, the federal government allowed telehealth providers to prescribe the medication without a medical visit to ensure people could still get it during lockdowns and reduce exposu... Read More...

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‘Yellowstone’ Star was in Debt Amid Drug Addiction: ‘I had no clothes, I had no money’

$400,000 in DEBT – May 7, 2023 - “I lost everything in the fire. I had no car, I had no clothes, I had no money — I was $400,000 in debt,” Bentley recalled. After moving to Hollywood, The Hunger Games star s... Read More...

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Fentanyl Strikes Again: Dead Kennedys Drummer D.H. Peligro Died From OD

PRINCE, TOM PETTY, MAC MILLER – MAY 2, 2023 - His bandmates first said they thought he died after accidentally falling and hitting his head, although, at the time, our law enforcement sources told us it was more myst... Read More...

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Recovering Addicts Turn To Science to Map the Effects of Meth

CAN BRAINS BOUNCE BACK? – May 5, 2023 - New Zealanders are some of the world’s biggest meth takers: wastewater testing has placed it in the top four consumers worldwide. The country’s physical isolation – 4,000... Read More...

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Hooked on Fentanyl: Man Shares Journey to Sobriety

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE – May 3, 2023 - From the couch of his addiction treatment center, 49-year-old Michael Padrta is hopeful to finally be on a new path after almost 40 years of drug use and two stints in pri... Read More...

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How the FDA Helped Fuel the Opioid Epidemic

WALL STRET JOURNAL: OPINION – May 2, 2023 - At an April Senate subcommittee hearing, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf blamed the pharmaceutical industry for a lack of nonaddictive nonopioid pai... Read More...

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‘El Chapo’ Sons Smuggling Cheap Fentanyl Into US

IT’S A LIVING ... FROM DYING – May 2, 2023 - Synthetic opioids ‒ mostly fentanyl ‒ now kill more Americans every year than the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined, feeding an argument among some politic... Read More...

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