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Veterinary Sedative Involved in Opioid Overdose Deaths

WHEN KETAMINE ISN’T STRONG ENOUGH – May 24, 2022 - A study published last month in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence found xylazine to be increasingly implicated in overdose mortality, rising from ... Read More...

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One Billion Pills! Ominous # of Drugs Seized in Asia

Unlimited Supply – May 30, 2022 - The number of methamphetamine tablets seized in East and Southeast Asia exceeded a billion last year for the first time... more@NPR ... Read More...

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108,000 Drug Deaths in 2021 Bear Out Prediction From Five Years Ago

DIDN’T TAKE A GENIUS – May 25, 2022 - The special section—based around the Pitt team’s landmark research article in Science that analyzed nearly four decades of U.S. drug overdose data—contains commentary by fo... Read More...

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New Meth Addiction Treatment

VIDEO – BULLY or BULLSHIT? – May 26, 2022 - Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare now has eight billboards around the city advertising a “new effective addiction treatment for meth, opioids, alcohol.” What is unusual here... Read More...

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Can Psychedelics Rewire a Depressed or Anxious Brain?

AUDIO – FINDING A NEW WAY TO HEAL – May 27, 2022 - In the latest episode of our In Conversation podcast, we discuss the newest research into the neuroscience of anxiety and depression and how this may change th... Read More...

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Addicted America Series: Aid For College Students

VIDEO – ONE DOSE AT A TIME – May 16, 2922 - “Colleges have their programs that offer therapy. Rutgers has a recovery house and students can stay in the recovery houses,” Gokarakonda said. “It’s like housing an... Read More...

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Meth Use Speeds Up

DON’T METH WITH METH – May 20, 2022 - When 50-year-old meth addict Brian Groh was sentenced to jail last month, he went through a severe withdrawal. “When I first got here, I was really bad,” he... Read More...

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The New York Times Finally Discovers Fentanyl and Death

WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? – May 20, 2022 - Last year, fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — caused more overdose deaths than any other drug has in a single year. The second-deadliest drug was meth, which is also produ... Read More...

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Dopamine Discovery Could Lead to Addiction Drugs

GAME CHANGER? – May 22, 2022 - A team of researchers headed by Claus Juul Loland has just published a study in the esteemed journal Nature Communications. The study sheds new light on the mechanism transporting... Read More...

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Medicating Back Pain Prolongs…Back Pain

PHARMA PROLONGS SUFFERING – March 12, 2022 - “People overuse the term ‘paradigm shift’, but this is absolutely a paradigm shift,” Buchheit said. “There is this unspoken rule: If it hurts, take an anti-inflamma... Read More...

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LA Skid Row – Overdose ‘Epicenter’ with Methadone Miles Away

BRING THE MOUNTAIN TO MOHAMED – May 11, 2022 - “The hardest part is to get there,” Elias said. “Soma — she has so much to do and she goes out of her way to help so many people. But she is only one person.” S... Read More...

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Mother Knows Pain of Losing

VIDEO – MOURN THE MOURNING – May 11, 2022 - She remembered the night she received the worst news of her life. “It’s a doorbell ring you never want to get,” Miniard said. “Two Jacksonville detectives were st... Read More...

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What’s the Best Way to Treat Addiction?

THORNY FEEDBACK – May 12, 2022 - To the Editor: Maia Szalavitz claims that forced treatment for addiction doesn’t work. In our family’s tragic experience, neither does the friendly persuasion that she ad... Read More...

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Inside Deadly Sales Juggernaut of the ‘Kingpin’ of Opioid Makers

SELLING, BUYING AND DYING – May 10, 2022 - These doctors were among 239 medical professionals ranked by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals as its top prescribers of opioids during the height of the pain pill ep... Read More...

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Family Grieving After 15-year-old girl Dies

VIDEO – HER FUTURE IS OVER – May 12, 2022 - A small-town South Carolina family found their daughter dead in her bedroom after she took a $3 pill that turned out to be fentanyl. Lana Hooker-Hashem was an honor s... Read More...

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The Must-Have Gear for Going Out This Summer!

SAVE AN ADDICT – May 5, 2022 - Godvin sprang into action. With the help of a network of volunteers, she gave away naloxone (often referred to by its brand name, Narcan) at Atmosphere’s shows across the country... Read More...

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‘They Were All Lawyered Up with Rudy Giuliani On Top’

THE CONSULTANT – A LOOK BACK @AUGUST 5, 2018 - Two months after the news conference announcing the terms of the settlement, the Purdue executives flew to Abingdon for their sentencing hearing. The RAPP parents ... Read More...

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Can Psychedelic Startups Solve Mental Health Crisis?

VIDEO – THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS – May 11, 2022 - But recent studies showing great promise in psychedelics are prompting startups to develop new health drugs in the space. Venture capitalists are also taki... Read More...

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Indigenous Americans See Five-Fold Increase in Fatal Overdoses in 20 Years

THE AMERICAN WAY? – May 3, 2022 - The data showed deaths in which opioids were involved increased from 5.2 to 33.9 per 100,000 Indigenous Americans in total. “These findings highlight existing inequities in ... Read More...

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Can a Monthly Injection Be the Key to Curbing Addiction?

IS IT COVERED BY INSURANCE? – May 6, 2022 - Yet despite its promise, the use of injectable buprenorphine remains fairly limited, especially compared with other forms of addiction medication. Researchers have ye... Read More...

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As Overdoses Soar, More States Decriminalize Fentanyl Testing Strips

THE TEST YOU WANT TO TAKE – May 6, 2022 - “We hope all the states would come to realize the dangers of contamination are so high and that fentanyl test strips empower a person taking drugs to know whether they... Read More...

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Big Rise of Cocaine Processing in Europe

CROSSING THE LINE – May 6, 2022 - While most cocaine manufacturing still occurs in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, EU experts are worried by the processing now taking place inside the 27-nation bloc, particularly ... Read More...

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12 Medical Professionals Charged with Fueling Opioid Epidemic In Appalachia

VIDEO – GREED: AMERICAN STYLE – May 5, 2022 - Over a dozen defendants across eight federal districts have been charged in connection with the illegal prescription and distribution of 5.1 million opioid pills, ... Read More...

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Then Mommy Became Addicted To Oxycontin

REVERSE GENERATIONS – May 7, 2022 - A week earlier, my phone buzzed as my husband and I waited on the tarmac at Denver International Airport, bound for a much-anticipated island vacation. “Ignore it,” Andy s... Read More...

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Beloved Police Officer, Football Star Dead From Fentanyl

WHY? HOW? WHY? – April 30, 2022 - “This behavior is not something we condone, and we will continue to assist Milpitas PD with their investigation,” Mata said. “We need to be mindful of the fact that we are ... Read More...

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Fake Adderall Kills Two On Campus

REAL DEATH – May 6, 2022 - Ohio State University officials sounded the alarm Thursday over the circulation of “fake Adderall” pills laced with fentanyl following the death of a student and the hospitalization o... Read More...

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Walgreens Accused Of Fueling Opioid Addiction To Get More Customers

MONEY MONEY MONEY – April 25, 2022 - The companies have denied the allegations, saying that they sold opioid medications that were prescribed by doctors. The defendants will make their opening statements in th... Read More...

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California Considering Safe Injection Centers

AUDIO – LIFE SAVING SITES – April 28, 2022 - MCCLURG: At the time, he was grappling with his sexuality in a conservative town in Virginia. MCCOY: I wasn’t quite in the closet, but I wasn’t really open ab... Read More...

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U.S. Army Sued Over Discharging Soldiers with Drug Addiction

AUDIO – GET LOST ADDICTS – April 28, 2022 - Army veteran Mark Stevenson, with help from students at Yale Law School, is suing Army Secretary Christine Wormuth in federal court in Connecticut, seeking to force ... Read More...

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