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Opioid Addiction Is Getting Worse

IS LOVE THE ONLY SOLUTION? – Dec. 9, 2021 - Maia Szalavitz writes for the New York Times about her experience being hooked on heroin. In her case, it wasn’t the happiness that sucked her in; it was the “relief from... Read More...

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Botox Manufacturer Settles $200 Million in Opioid Case

THEY SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH FACES – Dec. 8, 2021- “For more than two decades, opioids have wreaked havoc on New Yorkers and Americans across the nation — causing pain, addiction and death,” Letitia James, New ... Read More...

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CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Perpetuated Deadly Opioid Crisis

STOCKHOLDERS STILL HAPPY? – Nov. 23, 2021 - “The judgment today against Walmart, Walgreens and CVS represents the overdue reckoning for their complicity in creating a public nuisance,” the statement continued.... Read More...

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Should Doctors Be Embarrassed by TV’s ‘Dopesick’?

ONLY IF THEY HAVE FEELINGS – Nov. 26, 2021 - “I think doctors should watch this series because it carries important lessons for doctors about how pharmaceutical marketing can result in a public health catastro... Read More...

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‘It’s Scary’: Fentanyl Mixed With Other Drugs

WHAT’S NEXT? BABY FORMULA? – Nov. 27, 2021 - Behind that 100,000 figure, they said, is an ongoing surge in the number of cocaine, methamphetamine and other drug deaths that are connected to the simultaneous us... Read More...

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A Rabbi Helped Me Understand the Stigma Addiction Carries

CARRY THAT WEIGHT – Nov. 18, 2021 - Waves of agony repeatedly knocked the breath out of me, as pressure built behind my eyes, producing visual auras that blurred my sight and made me nauseous. The pain was so ... Read More...

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Most Americans Don’t Know They’re Being Prescribed Opioids

OR THAT BREAD IS FULL OF SALT – Nov. 18, 2021 - Nearly half the people interviewed didn’t recognize tramadol as an opioid, but even more common opioids such as morphine or methadone were misidentified by at le... Read More...

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Officials Warn of Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana

IS THIS A NEW HORROR MOVIE? – Nov. 18, 2021 - In at least one of the cases so far, the marijuana tested positive for fentanyl, a highly potent opioid that can be lethal in minuscule doses, the Connecticut Departmen... Read More...

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The Very First Time – Overdose Deaths Surpass 100,000

LISTEN – IT HAD TO BE 100,000 TO FINALLY GET INTO THE HEADLINES – Nov. 17, 2021 - This translates to an American perishing from a drug overdose death every five minutes. This is unacceptab... Read More...

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Tylenol Induces Risky Behavior In Millions

LIKE DRINKING A DIET COKE? – Nov. 18, 2021 - With nearly 25 percent of the population in the US taking acetaminophen each week, reduced risk perceptions and increased risk-taking could have important effects o... Read More...

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100,000 Americans Died From Drug Overdoses

WINTER IN AMERICA – Nov. 17, 2021 - The vast majority of these deaths, about 70 percent, were among men between the ages of 25 and 54. And while the opioid crisis has been characterized as one primarily impact... Read More...

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DEA Tries to Stop Pharmacies Dispensing Suboxone

DAMNED IF YOU DO... – Nov. 8, 2021 - The ramifications can be particularly acute in rural areas, where a dearth of addiction treatment providers, lack of transportation and stigma against these medications alr... Read More...

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How Fentanyl and Meth Took Over America

I WISH IT WAS FICTION – Nov. 2, 2021 - In the 12 months ending in September 2020, that number hit an all-time high of 87,000 deaths by overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fen... Read More...

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‘Russian Roulette’: Fentanyl Overdoses Double

WATCH – HEARTS BREAKING ON EVERY SPIN – Nov. 11, 2021 - Police and paramedics are alarmed by a recent surge in fentanyl overdoses, which have nearly doubled in Fort Worth over the past three months compared to last... Read More...

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Hulu’s Dopesick Puts a Lesbian Coal Miner at the Heart of Its Opioid Crisis Miniseries

WATCH AND WEEP – Nov. 10, 2021 - We have the government: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Randy Ramseyer (John Hoogenakker) and Rick Mountcastle (Peter Sarsgaard) and their new boss John Brownlee (Jake McDorman), all ... Read More...

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Revolutionary, ‘less harmful’ Pain Medication Therapy

WATCH – ADDICTION IS NOT MANDATORY – Nov. 12, 2021 - “I wanted no narcotics,” said Seminole County resident Andria Herr. She needed gallbladder surgery in March during the pandemic and she wanted non-narcot... Read More...

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Oklahoma Court Overturns $465 Million Opioid Judgment Against J&J

WE’RE INNOCENT – Nov. 10, 2021 - This is is a blow to the argument that companies that marketed, sold and distributed opioids created a public nuisance and should abate some of the damage drugs have caused in ... Read More...

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California Judge Delivers Drugmakers First Big Win in Opioid Litigation

EVERYONE ELSE LOSES – Nov. 2, 2021 - “Any adverse downstream consequences flowing from medically appropriate prescriptions cannot constitute an actionable public nuisance,” the ruling said. Los Angeles, Orange a... Read More...

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Nan Goldin Is No Longer Focused on the Sackler Family

MORE HARM REDUCTION – Oct. 19, 2021 - PAIN now calls attention to syringe service programs under siege, and legislation to decriminalize syringes. Rather than focus its energies on deplatforming wealthy art in... Read More...

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Dentists Still Giving Patients Addictive Painkillers

PAGING DR. SACKLER – Oct. 21, 2021 - In all, 84% of the 269 respondents said NSAID-acetaminophen combos are as effective as opioids or even more so, but 43% also said they regularly prescribe opioid medications. ... Read More...

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Overdose Deaths at a Historic High, FBI Targets Online Drug Markets

DEATH DELIVERED – Oct. 26, 2021 - These sites exist on the dark web or darknet, an area of the internet accessed through a specialized browser called Tor. Tor offers additional levels of privacy by obscuring t... Read More...

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The New Wave of Killer Synthetic Drugs

BODIES ON THE SHORE OF DESPAIR – Oct. 28, 2021 - Quinones has been on this beat for years. In 2015′s “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” Quinones outlined an innovative heroin distribution sys... Read More...

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Sam Quinones Foretold the Opioid Crisis, Sounds Alarm on the Coming Tsunami of Deaths

LISTEN UP – HE KNOWS WHERE ALL THE BODIES ARE BURIED – Oct. 29, 2021 - When you finished “Dreamland,” did you think you would write another drug book? No, because I was still thinking old school, and I ... Read More...

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Victims In Fallout of Pill Mill Closure

WATCH – IT HURTS – Oct. 7, 2021 - It all began after the 1999 car wreck. Altman figured she just needed some physical therapy to help with the resulting back pain. When her physician prescribed her a low dose ... Read More...

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Pharmacies Face 1st Trial In Opioid Conspiracy

EVERY CHAIN IS GUILTY – Oct. 2, 2021 - In a bellwether federal trial starting Monday in Cleveland, Lake and Trumbull counties will try to convince a jury that the retail pharmacy companies played an outs... Read More...

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Purdue Deal Delivers Billions, But Individuals Get Crumbs

PLEASE BIG PHARMA, WE NEED SOME MORE – Sept. 28, 2021 - For her claim, Lynn Wencus of Wretham, Mass., collected a long, painful thread of receipts for prescriptions, urine tests, doctors visits, detox and reha... Read More...

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Dopesick’s Michael Keaton Talks Addiction

NOW HE IS SUPERMAN – Sept. 26, 2021 - What boggles your mind the most? “An actual addiction was created and it infiltrated every class group. This has affected everyone from all walks of life. It’s a tragedy.”... Read More...

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1.8 Million Counterfeit Pills Seized

WATCH – THESE AIN’T GUCCI HANDBAGS – Sept. 30, 2021 - The risk posed by the fake medication was the subject of a public safety alert issued earlier this week by the DEA, the first such bulletin in six years. ... Read More...

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Beware of Fake Drugs Laced With Fentanyl

LISTEN – ANOTHER REASON TO GET SOBER – Sept. 27, 2021 - The agency said it has seized more than 9.5 million fake pills so far this year, more than the last two years combined. It said its lab has found that tw... Read More...

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Our Medicine Supply Is Sick

AND BUSINESS HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER – Sept. 18, 2021 - Drug production moved to Asia for the same reasons that other American manufacturing did: labor was cheap, environmental regulations were weak and the cont... Read More...

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