Drug Abuse and Addiction

Drug Abuse and Addiction

Mother and children likely perished as result of overdose

War on drugs kills three more – July 26, 2020 - A missing Forney mother found deceased in Farmers Branch on Thursday most likely died of an overdose and her two children subsequently perished due to a heat stro... Read More...

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Recovery Unplugged Addresses Addiction in Minority Communities

Drugs do not discriminate – July 23, 2020 - In continued observance of National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, Recovery Unplugged Treatment Centers is examining and addressing the unique factors that ... Read More...

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David Sheff says: Safe-injection sites should be allowed to protect drug users

He's got a point! – July 22, 2020 - Kral and Pete Davidson, at the University of California, San Diego, have studied the illegal site for five years and this week published their findings in The New England Journal o... Read More...

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Mysterious brain structure sheds light on drug addiction

Science friction? – July 23, 2020 - This mechanism also underlies drug addiction and is the reason why hanging out in an environment or with people associated with memories of drug use often leads to relapse. How o... Read More...

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DRUGS: What America gets wrong about drugs?

WATCH – Everything! – July 20, 2020 - “Why are some drugs legal and others illegal? ... if you ask how and why this distinction got made, what you realize when you look at the history is it has almost nothing to do w... Read More...

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Sackler Family Could Get Away With Murder

Savage Capitalism Prevails – July 22, 2020 - The billionaire Sacklers who own Purdue Pharma, maker of the OxyContin painkiller that helped fuel America’s opioid epidemic, are among America’s richest families. The Jul... Read More...

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Bill could make remote addiction treatment permanent

Virtual Hugs? – July 15, 2020 - “It’s a good idea because it helps reach people who have challenges getting treatment,” said Scott Rasmus, executive director of the Butler County Mental Health & Addiction Recover... Read More...

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Prisoner Ran Crack Cocaine Ring From His Cell

An inside job – July 13, 2020 - An investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Rhode Island Task Force determined that using his prison call account and the accounts of others, Gome... Read More...

Drug Abuse and AddictionJuly 21 2020

CVS Fined … Almost Nothing

Druggists do it legally – July 16, 2020 - CVS also agreed to distribute a memo to its pharmacists in the state, highlighting a law that requires them to take action if working conditions in their pharmacies could lea... Read More...

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A Real Risk: Prescription Drug Addiction During COVID-19

CVS open 24/7 – July 17, 2020 - To the surprise of many, prescription drug addiction is spiking during this period alongside the use of illegal drugs and alcohol. Looking beyond common misconceptions around drug addi... Read More...

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Doctor arrested, suspected of fraud to feed opioid addiction

Addicted Doc – July 15, 2020 - Hughes, who works at Nebraska Foot and Ankle, has written 63 prescriptions for 4,300 pills for Digilio over the last two years, which drug investigators believe was overprescribing, the... Read More...

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3,000 miles for addiction recovery

Walking the walk, coast to coast – July 19, 2020 - People celebrate milestones differently. My wife and I took a cruise to Alaska to commemorate 30 years of marriage. Others do outlandish things while some prefer ... Read More...

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Cliff Brodsky: The Man Who Knew Too Much And Too Little

Jailhouse Rock – July 21, 2020 – By John Lavitt When Cliff Brodsky, a successful music producer and songwriter, first met now-imprisoned rehab mogul Christopher Bathum at a 12-Step meeting in 2011, he did not real... Read More...

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Georgia addiction centers pay $122 million to settle whistleblower lawsuits

Easy Money – July 13, 2020 - Universal Health Services, a for-profit public company which runs about 30 psychiatric facilities involved in the settlement, did not admit to any wrongdoing in agreeing to settle. “UH... Read More...

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Horrors of opioid addiction explored in LA writer’s memoir

The Heart And Other Monsters – July 17, 2020 -The voice speaking above serves as a narrator throughout her sister’s ghastly descent into the hellacious pit of drug addiction is that of Los Angeles-based author Rose A... Read More...

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Psychiatric nurse pens book on surviving homelessness and drug abuse

WATCH – Park Bench to Park Avenue – July 15, 2020 - Brown shares his raw journey out of homelessness in a book titled “From Park Bench to Park Avenue.” The park bench refers to the many years of homelessness. T... Read More...

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Overdoses skyrocket: states slash treatment budgets

Death Wish? – JULY 16, 2020 - The budget cuts — many spurred by state budget shortfalls wrought by the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic — will hit behavioral health services when they are needed most... Read More...

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Opioids Are Still The King For Many Doctors

NPR LISTEN – Loving Pills – July 17, 2020 - DR. GERY GUY: There’s still three times the amount of opioids being prescribed as there was in 1999, and there’s also substantial variation across the country. MANN: You... Read More...

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Ex-Rehab Mogul Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting Patients

From slime, to time - 53 years in State rehab – JULY 14, 2020 - Bathum was convicted in February 2018 of 31 counts, including forcible rape, sexual penetration by a foreign object, forcible oral copulation, sexual ex... Read More...

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Johnny Depp diagnosed with ADHD, depression and chronic substance abuse

We care because we love him! – July 8, 2020 - Depp told the court: “I was quite addicted to these roxycodone due to a stunt injury on a film in London. He previously told the court he went through a painful detox... Read More...

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Increase in indecent exposure cases related to drug activity, police say

Streaking Nnot Streaming – July 10, 2020 - Detectives watched one man in quick succession walk into and out of a room at the Travel Lodge, before scurrying across the highway, according to police. When the investigat... Read More...

Drug Abuse and AddictionJuly 14 2020

Jonathan Sackler, Co-owner of Purdue Pharma, Dies

Please send flowers to hell – July 6, 2020 - STAMFORD, Conn. — Jonathan Sackler, one of the owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, has died, the company confirmed. Sackler died June 30, according to a court fili... Read More...

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15 deadly overdoses in 72 hours reported in one county

American Nightmares Continue – July 12, 2020 - COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Franklin County Coroner’s Office has reported on Sunday that there have been 15 overdose deaths reported in the county in the last 72 hours. Dr. Ana... Read More...

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Popular diabetes medication recalled

Whoops! ... may contain a carcinogen – July 9, 2020 - Two more pharmaceutical companies have issued a recall for a medication used to control high blood sugar in people with Type 2 diabetes because it may contain a c... Read More...

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Gov. Cuomo cuts aid for recovery services

“treatment programs are reeling with the news” – July 11, 2020 - Treatment providers say they were given no notice, and no explanation, for the surprising size of the cut or its timing by the administration of Gov. A... Read More...

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Trial Confirms Antipsychotics Damage the Brain

WATCH – Duh! – July 6, 2020 - “This randomized study in humans controls for confounders present in previous observational studies such as illness severity or other factors associated with illness that influence brain... Read More...

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Center on Addiction Changes Name to…

A rose by any other name... – July 10, 2020 - “Partnership to End Addiction is a name that reflects both the legacy of our combined organization, as well as our dedication to partnering with experts, advocates and ot... Read More...

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3 things Amazon Prime series ‘ZeroZeroZero’ gets right about the cocaine trade

WATCH – International Trade Dealers – July 11, 2020 - The U.S. government’s assumption wasn’t always wrong. A generation ago, the Western Hemisphere cocaine trade did function like a pipeline that started in South Am... Read More...

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Elon Musk’s ‘Terrifying’ MINI Brain Chip Cures Addiction?

It’s all in your head – July 11, 2020 - Mental disorders are diseases that are still incurable by medicine intake. There are therapies, but patients have no exact cure to heal from the brain disorder fully. Brain com... Read More...

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Why Mexican Cartels Are Shooting Up Drug Rehabs

Legalize it! – July 10, 2020 - This latest macabre chapter in Mexico’s brutal crime wars shows how drug users – including those trying to get clean in the country’s unregulated, privately-run rehabs, known as anexos ... Read More...

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