The Opioid Settlement | on 60 Minutes WATCH – NEVER ENOUGH – March 9, 2025 - With Ryan Hampton! Cecilia Vega investigates how the Purdue Pharma opioid settlement— potentially one of the largest opioid settlements ever— will compensate victims of the opio... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 11 2025opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
USA Sues CVS and Walgreens for So Many Deaths DANGER AT YOUR DOOR – March 7, 2025 - The CSA states that narcotics can only be used for “a useful and legitimate medical purpose.” By filling prescriptions that were invalid, the pharmacies “made choices that ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 11 2025
False Beliefs About Drug Use, Users, and Addiction THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE – Feb. 20, 2025 - Myths and misconceptions increase stigma and decrease the likelihood that someone with an addictive illness will receive prompt, effective treatment. We need early... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025
Midlife: The New Battleground for Addiction VIDEO – MIDLIFE CRISIS – Feb. 26, 2025 - According to the National Library of Medicine, more older adults in the 50s and 60s are turning to drugs, alcohol and potentially dangerous behavior to cope with mental healt... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025Mental Health
New Label for Opioid Use Disorder Drug LABELS – Feb. 25, 2025 - Sublocade lets people get the injection after just one dose of buprenorphine (taken under the tongue or inside the cheek) and a one-hour wait to make sure it’s safe. This means treatment can ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMar 04 2025opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Mountain Air in a Pill? It Extends Life and Reverses Brain Damage NOT HOT AIR – Feb. 22, 2025 - For most people, living at high altitudes—where oxygen levels are lower than at sea level—can offer health benefits, such as reduced rates of heart disease and improved endurance. Howeve... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Medialife expectancyMar 04 2025
Three-year-old Dies From Methadone VIDEO – HORROR STORY – Feb. 26, 2025 - A man has been arrested for neglect after a three-year-old in his care died from a methadone overdose. CONTINUE@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7w-E5Jna5s ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025Trauma
Senator Explains Bill That Makes Opioid Treatment Illegal VIDEO – SAY WHAT? – Feb. 24, 2025 - The bill is intended to outlaw stand-alone methadone clinics. He says these types of clinics are mills that keep people in the cycle of addiction. He also said methadone has a hig... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Trump’s Backs Death Penalty for Drug Sales SOON? – Feb. 25, 2025 - “If you notice that every country that has the death penalty has no drug problem,” Trump falsely claimed at a meeting of the National Governors Association, at the White House on Feb. 21... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025
Study Links Vaping to Serious Illnesses MODERATION IS THE KEY – Feb. 25, 2025 - Vaping might just be more harmful than traditional smoking, with a new study suggesting it increases the risk of dementia, heart disease, and organ failure. The ground-breaking... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 04 2025Vaping
Why Your Brain Says ‘thank you God’ to Sweets AUDIO – CANDYLAND – Feb. 21, 2025 - Henning Fenselau, one of the study authors, says this suggests that people’s brains evolved to love sugar in excess. “Because sugar is so easy to metabolize, its consumption beyond... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating DisorderFeb 25 2025food addiction
An intervention saved his life. 23 years later they meet again. A STORY TO LOVE – Feb. 17, 2025 - Jean-Philippe Desjardins-Dufour began drinking at the age of 13. He stole his parents’ alcohol and drank alone in the evening. Then he fell into chemical drugs. The day of his ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaFeb 25 2025Recovery
Revolutionary Non-opioid Painkiller Hits Pharmacies Soon VIDEO – NO PAIN NO GAIN? – Feb. 12, 2025 - It’s the first new type of painkiller in 20 years. And it’s just a few weeks away from being in local pharmacies. Here are some details from a neurosurgeon about what you... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025opioid crisis
Opiate Crises Remedy Ignored!!! CONSPIRACY? – Feb. 19, 2025 - France was one of the first countries to most fully exploit the drug’s potential. In the 1990s, French health authorities began allowing any doctor to prescribe buprenorphine. By the ear... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
RFK Jr. Says Antidepressants More Addictive Than Heroin SMACK DOWN – Feb. 18, 2025 - Part of Trump’s sweeping “Making America Healthy Again” order is to “assess the prevalence of and threat” posed by the prescription of antidepressants and other medications. During Kenned... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025Heroin Addiction
Ozempic & Wegovy Help Curb Alcohol Cravings A MIRACLE DRUG? – Feb. 17, 2025 - The study authors reported that in the last month of treatment, participants in the semaglutide group significantly reduced their number of heavy drinking days, and about 40% o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 25 2025food addiction
Nancy Reagan’s War on Drugs Is Back TERRY COLE'S MISTAKE – Feb. 11, 2025 - Cole’s stance on cannabis appears to align with late former first lady Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign that took off during the 1980s as part of the country’s drug war. Tr... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 25 2025War On Drugs
Tariffs Can’t Solve America’s Fentanyl Crisis CAN NOTHING? – Feb. 5, 2025 - Ending the fentanyl crisis won’t be easy. Speaking as a professor who studies social policy, I think both fentanyl and the proposed import taxes represent significant threats... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025fentanyl
‘There has never been a more dangerous time to take drugs’ LIFE OR DEATH – Feb. 7, 2025 - Three men parked in a quiet car park in the southern English market town of Abingdon-on-Thames. The men, returning from a night out, had pulled over to smoke heroin. Unknown to th... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
Dangerous Drugs Available at Corner Stores AUDIO – AND DRUG STORES – Feb. 11, 2025 - Hundreds of convenience stores are selling untested, highly addictive and potentially deadly drugs as over-the-counter dietary supplements, and law enforcement is not keeping... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
House FINALLY Passes Bill Making Fentanyl a Schedule I drug — joining LSD and Weed WHAT TOOK SO LONG? – Feb. 6, 2025 - “It’s the most obvious thing in the world to be in support of,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said in a speech backing the bill. “Fentanyl is supposed to be used in the operating roo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025fentanyl
Brooklyn Pharmacists Convicted of Running ‘pill mills’ BIG PHARMA FRIENDS – Feb. 13, 2025 - Following a three-week trial, Yousef Ennab, 27, and Mohamed Hassan, 34, both of Brooklyn, were found guilty on charges of conspiracy to dispense and distribute oxycodone, as... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
New Drug for Mitigation of Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms AUDIO – HIGH-Ho – Feb. 14, 2025 - The CDC reports that among individuals who use cannabis, approximately 3 in 10 have cannabis use disorder. The risk of developing cannabis use disorder is even higher for individual... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025marijuana
12-Step Programs Have Pros – and Cons SO DOES WATER – Feb. 13, 2025 - With the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the US is heading into its next chapter of healt... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025
Patients Used as ‘Human Pin Cushions’ For Profits HORRIFIC COMPANY – Feb. 13, 2025 - The clinic claimed the injections were steroids that would relieve her pain, Shaw said, but with each shot her agony would grow. Shaw said she eventually tried to decline the shots,... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 18 2025interventionTrauma
Addicted: How the World Got Hooked HAPPY PILLS – Feb. 3, 2025 - Having spent most of my career researching the human toll of drug use at almost every stage of the supply and consumption chain, I believe a complete shift in the way we think about... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025
Pregnant Addict Turns Her Life Around VIDEO – BABIES MATTER – Feb. 4, 2025 - Thirty-year-old Lydia Kareha knows what it’s like to hit rock bottom. “My decisions led me down a really rough path,” Kareha said. “I had a lot of felonies. I thought I was g... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025RecoveryRehab
Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder Shows Mixed Results NO BUFFETS – Feb. 3, 2025 - The study explores the subjective experiences of individuals with binge eating disorder and prescribed lisdexamfetamine. Although many taking the medication reported reduced binge episodes... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaEating DisorderFeb 11 2025food addiction
Boy Dies After $500 Price Rise for Advair Asthma Inhaler GREED KILLS – Feb. 5, 2025 - A couple is suing Walgreens and a pharmacy benefits management company, alleging that their son died because he couldn’t afford a sudden $500 spike in his asthma medication. Shanon ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 11 2025Trauma
Emotional Lawmaker Describes Fentanyl Crisis VIDEO – MORE OUTRAGE PLEASE – Jan. 2025 - “I cannot tell you the amount of times I’ve had to listen to the screams on the other end of a phone when family members are notifying other family members about their sister... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 11 2025fentanyl