Drug Abuse and Addiction

Drug Abuse and Addiction

Recriminalizing Most Hemp Products

DE-LEGALIZE IT – Nov. 13, 2025 - Donald Trump has signed a spending bill that includes provisions to ban most consumable hemp products. Hemp advocates have said the ban will apply even to nonintoxicating CBD products... Read More...

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Are We Sure We’re Using Fentanyl Test Strips the Right Way?

NOT JUST FOR ADDICTS – Nov. 12, 2025 - The obvious places to stock FTS are school bathrooms and locker rooms. Bars, nightclubs, festivals, dormitories—all the places frequented by people who don’t identify as drug us... Read More...

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‘The White Lotus’ sparked Interest in Risky Anxiety Pill

PARKER POSEY – Nov. 14, 2025 - The latest season of “The White Lotus” delivered big ratings for HBO — and fueled a surge of Google searches for a risky antianxiety prescription drug featured on the show. Sedative dru... Read More...

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Judge Orders Sackler Family to Pay $7.4 Billion in Opioid Settlement

MURDERERS ROW – Nov. 14, 2025 - In thousands of lawsuits, Purdue and members of the Sackler family were later accused of aggressively marketing OxyContin, while misleading doctors and patients over its addiction and ... Read More...

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The ‘Empty Shoe Project’ Honors Lives Lost to Addiction

VIDEO – STEPS NEVER TAKEN MEMORIAL – Nov. 9, 2025 - To honor lives lost to addiction in Delaware, “Hope on Deck” placed a piece of footwear where loved ones would have stood. It’s called the “Empty Shoe Project,” ... Read More...

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SF Mayor Plans to Arrest Addicts – Give Them Treatment & Housing in New Sobering Center

VIDEO – THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO – Nov. 12, 2025 - San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a new plan to tackle the city’s drug crisis: a law enforcement sobering center to get people who are doing drugs off th... Read More...

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Melatonin Could Be Harming Your Heart

“To sleep, perchance to dream” – Nov. 5, 2025 - People who regularly used melatonin supplements for at least a year were found to have a higher likelihood of being diagnosed with heart failure, being hospitalized for... Read More...

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$53 Billion Rehab Industry Fails Those It’s Supposed To Help

AUDIO – ONE CLENT AT A TIME – Nov. 3, 2025 - A new book explores the dark side of the drug rehabilitation industry. It’s called “Rehab: An American Scandal,” and it’s written by Shoshana Walter, an investigative repo... Read More...

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FDA Becomes “clown show” Amid Latest Scandal

BOZO MAKES A COMEBACK – Nov. 4, 2025 - An alleged extortion attempt, a petty yearslong grudge, shocking social media posts, and ominous text messages make up the latest scandal at the Food and Drug Administration, an... Read More...

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Court Battle Exposes Ugliest Strategies of Rehab Business

MONEY MONEY MONEY – Nov. 6, 2025 - “Bro,” the text chain says, “you can make so much fucking money off these junkies. Their (sic) going to use anyway.” “What do you mean I can make more,” came the reply. “U can ma... Read More...

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Rosie O’Donnell Asks for ‘Prayers’ for Daughter Chelsea

SEARCHING FOR PRAYERS – October 29, 2025 - Rosie shared a much younger photo of her daughter Chelsea, now 28, on her Instagram as she asked her followers for “prayers.” “My child chelsea belle - before addiction took... Read More...

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Cincinnati: One Day Sees 30 Horrifying Heroin Overdoses

SHOULD BE LEGAL AND REGULATED? – August 23, 2025 - Cincinnati emergency crews responded to 30 heroin overdoses in the course of one day Tuesday, August 23. Officials said most of the overdoses were located in the we... Read More...

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Hollywood Producer Sentenced to 146 Years For Drug Deaths of Model & Friend

VIDEO – NOT ENOUGH YEARS – Oct. 29, 2025 - Jurors deliberated 2 1/2 days before finding David Brian Pearce guilty of the two murder charges stemming from the deaths of 24-year-old model and aspiring actress Christy ... Read More...

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Diddy Opened Up About His Biggest Regret – Ex-Inmate Says

F**K HIM – Oct. 30, 2025 - “He regrets — he would always tell us to stay away from drugs, because he said when you’re under the influence, you will make very poor decisions, and your mind will be clouded,” the former... Read More...

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Those Who Use Weed Before 15 Will Have Trouble Later

UNLESS THEY QUIT – Oct. 29, 2025 - Teens are also more likely to develop mental and physical health problems in young adulthood compared to their peers who did not use the drug in adolescence. Early, frequent cannabi... Read More...

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Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in Dubai

FASCINATING – Oct. 20, 2025 - In the late seventies, heroin began ravaging Dublin’s inner-city projects. A man named Larry Dunne was the city’s first godfather of heroin importers, but he was jailed in 1985. Kinahan,... Read More...

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Six infections, three heart surgeries, a $1 million on hospitals and he still can’t escape his drug addiction!

HE’S COMMITTED – Oct. 16, 2025 - They installed his first pacemaker when he was 30, opened his chest three times for heart surgeries, and amputated all but one of his toes. Friends and health care providers have help... Read More...

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Private Treatment Centres Put Patients in Danger

AUDIO/VIDEO – OH CANADA – Oct. 24, 2025 - Quebec and Alberta are only provinces that provide some regulation for all private facilities. After past struggles with alcohol, she was battling prescription drug addiction... Read More...

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For Sale in California Stores Nitrous Oxide Is Ruining Lives Forever

AUDIO – TOO EASY – Oct. 20, 2025 - ...as her boyfriend drove while repeatedly inhaling nitrous oxide from a two-liter canister. At roughly 100 mph, Mr. Loudermilk lost consciousness, the effect of the anesthetic d... Read More...

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‘It’s scary to think I could have died’

LONG STRANGE TRIP – Oct. 17, 2025 - Coming back from fentanyl addiction. Kayla first tried fentanyl as a troubled 18-year-old, growing up in the US state of North Carolina. ”I felt like literally amazing. The voices ... Read More...

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Fewer Than Half of Drug Overdose Survivors Go to the Hospital

INDEPENDENT ADDICTS – Oct. 23, 2025 - The researchers found that 25.7 percent of participants had experienced at least one NFOD in the prior year. During the most recent NFOD, use of naloxone was reported by 82.1 per... Read More...

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Connecticut Residents Debate Hillbilly Heroin / Kratom Ban

AUDIO – NOT GOOD – Oct. 16, 2025 - The vast majority of the more than 100 testifiers during Wednesday’s marathon seven-hour hearing agreed that 7-OH, which researchers have estimated could be 15 times as potent as mo... Read More...

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Recovery Center to Stop Providing Pipes to Drug Users

VIDEO – GOOD IDEA – Oct. 9, 2025 - According to the Howard Center, it helps people and communities by providing services to address mental health, substance use and developmental needs The organization provides le... Read More...

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Why People Use or Get Addicted to Cannabis?

JAZZ OR ROCK? – Oct. 13, 2025 - The tendency to use cannabis is associated with genes linked to impulsive behavior, obesity, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, among other traits. 24 states legalized recreatio... Read More...

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Libraries in Chicago Reduces Overdose Deaths

GO BEARS – Oct. 17, 2025 - Even libraries have become part of the city’s arsenal in the fight against drug overdose deaths. Chicagoans can get free drug test strips at the city’s public libraries – as well as naloxon... Read More...

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Man Ferrying Cocaine from UK to Dubai in His Stomach – Dies of Overdose

TOO SAD – Oct. 6, 2025 - Jensen Westhead - the 20-year-old British man swallowed several bags of cocaine at a hotel in Manchester, and two days later, they exploded on a flight to Dubai. Jensen Westhead was found dea... Read More...

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Blowing the Lid Off U.S. Rehabs

THIS STORY WON’T DIE – Oct. 16, 2025 - Trigger warning! Shoshana Walter’s new book, Rehab: An American Scandal, is going to make you cry and scream. Cry for how people in need are treated with such cruelty in addicti... Read More...

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Deadly Mix Drives Staggering Rise in Overdose Deaths of Seniors

MARKETING MATTERS – Oct. 17, 2025 - Among adults 65 and older, overdose deaths from fentanyl mixed with stimulants — like cocaine and methamphetamines — have surged 9,000% in the last eight years, which matches rates... Read More...

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More Kids Losing Parents to Overdose, Suicide and Homicide

HOME GROWN ORPHANS – Oct. 16, 2025 - “Parental deaths from overdoses, homicides, suicides, and other substance-related causes are associated with more adverse health outcomes and higher rates of early mortality in th... Read More...

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Saving Teens from Addiction, Vaping, and Social Media Dangers

AUDIO – THEY ARE OUR FUTURE – PODCAST - On this episode of the WGNS Rutherford Issues Podcast, Scott Walker fills in for Bryan Barrett to discuss the Steered Straight program with guest Jennifer Sanchez. Together, th... Read More...

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