New Hampshire Gets $40.5 Million From Opioid Moguls Johnson & Johnson VIDEO – NOT The Brothers Karamazov – Sept. 1, 2022 - “As part of our continued efforts to battle the opioid epidemic, New Hampshire is a leader in ensuring that the companies who played a role in perpetuating t... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 6 2022
“New Meth” Is Nothing to Fear. It Isn’t New. It’s Just Meth. MORE OF THE SAME SPEED RAP – Sept. 1, 2022 - If you’ve ever seen someone talk about “new meth” online, they were probably describing how it explained some aspect of society—encampments, mental illness—that they... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionmethRecoverySept 6 2022
Sam Quinones Is Wrong Says Zackary Siege WHO KNOWS? – Sept. 4, 2022 - The other day I got a concerned ping. Someone alerted me that Sam Quinones, bestselling author of Dreamland and more recently The Least of Us, two books abo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 6 2022
Out-of-Pocket Cost of Naloxone Soars for Uninsured Individuals PROFITS ON LIFE AND DEATH – Aug. 26. 2022 - While the cost of naloxone has declined for individuals with health insurance, the cost of the opioid overdose reversal medication has sharply risen for uninsured ind... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 6 2022Trauma
Traffickers Target Teens With ‘rainbow fentanyl’ Deaths VIDEO – CHILDHOOD IS DANGEROUS – Aug. 31, 2022 - “The men and women of the DEA are relentlessly working to stop the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl and defeat the Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOverdoseRecoverySept 6 2022Trauma
Doctor Traces Fentanyl’s Journey From Miracle Drug to Mass Killer AUDIO – FOLLOW THE GREED – Aug. 25, 2022 - Pharmaceutical fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, approved for treating severe pain. However, many recent cases of fentanyl-related harm, overdose and death in the U.S. a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyl
Fentanyl Deaths Leads Morgues to Run Out of Space VIDEO – NO END IN SIGHT – Aug. 24, 2022 - Chicago-area resident Karen Zander lost her 22-year-old son John Allen to fentanyl poisoning. Zander said in 2016, Allen made the choice to snort cocaine that his best ... Read More...Aug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Young Adults Using Weed and Hallucinogens At Highest Rates On Record GENERATION RAM DASS – Aug. 24, 2022 - Alcohol was the most popular substance in the study, though rates of daily drinking have decreased in the past 10 years. But binge drinking — which the orga... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionmarijuanapotPsychedelicssmokingweed
Are Physicians at Higher Risk for Substance Abuse? PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF – Aug. 25, 2022 - It incentivizes physicians hiding their addiction and avoiding unwanted attention that comes from seeking help. Most individuals will not ask for help if they rec... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehab
Why Governor Newsom Must Pass SB999 by Joan Borsten AND HOW YOU CAN HELP – Aug. 25, 2022 - Back in the day, when my husband Oleg Vidov and I owned Malibu Beach Recovery Center (“MBRC”)we, like others in the addiction community were “stalked” by Dr. Timothy J... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionRecoveryRehabTrauma
Rehab Riviera: New Law To Prevent Rehabs From Misleading Everyone ISN’T THAT THEIR JOB? – Aug. 24, 2022 - It’s easy to mistake mental health and addiction treatment centers for actual medical facilities in California. But they are not staffed 24/7 by doctors (and are not allo... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Major Victory in Fight Against Suboxone Makers ANOTHER WIN – Aug. 25, 2022 - “The intentional implementation of an illegal ‘product hopping’ scheme to block or delay generic versions of a medication used to help individuals recover from opioid addiction is despi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionintervention
Teen Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone. GENERATION OF GUINEA PIGS – Aug. 27, 2022 - A study published in 2020 in the journal Pediatrics found that 40.7 percent of people ages 2 to 24 who were prescribed a drug for attention deficit hyperactivity diso... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRehabteenagersTrauma
Coming Off Tranquilizing Meds For a More Fulfilling Life CONSULT YOUR LOCAL PHARMACY – Aug. 10, 2022 - ‘And I am sorry to have kept you waiting but we contacted your clinic in Ireland to double check things and your prescription checks out. So, here you a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecovery
Law Enforcement Officials Warn About Spread of “Rainbow Fentanyl” THE COLOR OF MONEY – Aug. 22, 2022 - Experts have differing theories as to why illicit drug manufacturers are producing brightly colored fentanyl. Some officials, including Michael W. Humphries, area dir... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
How to School Your Kids About Substance Abuse Prevention WHEN TALK ISN’T ENOUGH - THERE’S ALWAYS REHAB – Aug 25, 2022 - As your children get older, you should talk to them about the risks of using substances, in a concerned manner rather than as a scare tactic. Howev... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabteenagersTrauma
Overdose Prevention Should Be Part of Each College’s Core Curriculum BEFORE ALGEBRA – August 11, 2022 - I’m not being alarmist: During that same spring break, four students in Florida overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl; when two friends began to perform CPR, they were expo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylinterventionlife expectancyOverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabTrauma
Girlfriend Charged With Murder For Meth-Laced Kiss With Inmate GOING TO ANY LENGTH – Aug. 17, 2022 - Rachel Dollard, 33, allegedly hid a balloon containing a half-ounce of speed in her mouth and passed it orally to Joshua Brown at the Turney Center Industrial Complex in On... Read More...Aug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionmethTrauma
My Father’s Drug Addiction Put a Mask On Me. THERE IS A SOLUTION – Aug. 17, 2022 - I wear a mask. The labels that represent me — committed Christian, talented author, well-connected publicist — do not tell the whole or even partial story of my life. My pr... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMental HealthRecoveryTrauma
Every ER Doctor Will See An Overdose Every Shift AUDIO – HOW MANY GET TO GO HOME? – Aug. 9, 2022 - “This is an expected type of patient presentation. Just like a heart attack or stroke or patient with sepsis, this is something that every emergency doctor work... Read More...Aug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
My Adult ADHD Meds Felt Like a Lifeline. Then Came the Scary Side-Effects… PILLS CAN BACKFIRE – Aug. 2022 - I had been a restless child. The first night I slept in a bed rather than a cot, I rolled on to the floor nine times. Even before I could walk, I was constantly wriggling, fidge... Read More...Aug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryTrauma
CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Fined Only $650,000,000 For Ohio’s Opioids Horror Show ANOTHER DROP IN THE BUCKET – August 17, 2022 - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered three of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains — CVS, Walgreens and Walmart — to pay $650.5 million to two Ohio counties, rulin... Read More...Aug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Florida Leads Nation In Overdose Deaths From New Synthetic Drug: Eutylone VIDEO – EUTYLONE EUTYLONE EUTYLONE – Aug. 13, 2022 - Florida is leading the nation in overdose deaths with a new synthetic drug called eutylone. more@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFjyat... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOverdoseTrauma
How Photographers Help Fight Addiction in Philly VIDEO – STARING IN THE FACE OF HOPELESSNESS – Aug. 16, 2022 - “It just doesn’t feel comfortable for me to continue to drive through this area, walk through this area, catch the train, pass this are... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental Healthmethopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
With ‘Majority’ of Cases Linked to Addiction, Police Dept. Offers Path to Recovery VIDEO – THIS IS MY AMERICA – Aug. 18, 2022 - Officers have partnered with an embedded social worker to try to get people the addiction and mental health treatment they need. The mission of the Law Enforcemen... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
SF Walgreens Colluded with Opioid Manufacturers VIDEO – Walgreens Guilty as Sin – Aug. 10, 2022 - Amanda Starrantino reports on a judge ruling in San Francisco’s favor in opioid lawsuit against Walgreens. - Video Only more@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/w... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 16 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Tennessee Sues Walgreens For Leading Role in Opioid Crisis VIDEO – Walgreens Sucks – Aug. 10, 2022 - The Tennessee Attorney General is suing Walgreens for selling over a billion pills, saying the company contributed to the opioid crisis in Tennessee. more@Yaho... Read More...Aug 16 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediainterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
ADHD Meds Found Effective Against Drug Addiction CONCENTRATION MATTERS – Aug. 10, 2022 - In this study, researchers directed a Preferred ReportingItems for SystematicReviews and Meta-Analyses(PRISMA) systematic review of peer-reviewed literature. They ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 16 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthRecovery
Why So Few Opioid Addicts Don’t Get the Treatment that Could Save Them? UNFAIR AND UNBALANCED – Aug. 12, 2022 - After about six years, when she could no longer endure the misery, LeBlanc sought out treatment. She had heard that Suboxone, the brand name for a medication that combine... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAug 16 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehab
13-Year-Old Boy Dead from Accidental Fentanyl Overdose VIDEO – ARE YOU SOBBING OR SCREAMING? – Aug. 12, 2022 - AURORA, Colo. — Younger and younger kids are being impacted by the opiate epidemic. On Wednesday, 13-year-old Jose Hernandez was found dea... Read More...Aug 16 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinteenagersTrauma