The Last Days of Heroin FENTANYL FOREVER? – Feb. 18, 2021 - Fentanyl isn’t a new substance, having first been synthesized in a lab in 1960 by the Belgian company Janssen Pharmaceuticals. The drug has important medical uses, including for C... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 23 2021fentanylHeroin Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdose
Huge Colorado Trafficking Bust BIG PHARM COMPETITION FOILED – Feb. 12, 2021 - Federal, state and local law enforcement in Adams County announced on Friday the dismantling of a drug trafficking operation that has led to state-level indictment... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021fentanylHeroin Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontin
This Message Will Self-Destruct: Snapchat & the Tragic Death of a 16-year-old by Christopher Dale WHAT A PRICE TO PAY – Feb. 16, 2021 - On Sunday, February 7, 16-year-old Samuel Chapman asked his father for a cheeseburger, then went to his room to play video games. An hour later his m... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021fentanylinternetinterventionMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseteenagersTrauma
TV Host Dr. Laura Berman’s 16-year-old Son Dies from Overdose from Drug Dealer on Snapchat WATCH – DEAR GOD, MAKE IT STOP – Feb. 8, 2021 - Berman first shared the news of her son’s death on Instagram Sunday, writing that her son got “the drugs delivered to the house” in an “experimentation gone bad.” “... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 16 2021fentanyllife expectancyMental HealthOverdoseteenagersTrauma
Experimental vaccine blunts the deadliest of synthetic opioids AN INJECTION OF OPTIMISM or SAY WHAT? – February 4, 2021 - “We’ve shown it is possible to prevent these unnecessary deaths by eliciting antibodies that stop the drug from reaching the brain.” The Scripps Resea... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaFeb 9 2021fentanylinterventionopioid crisisopioidsoxycontinRecovery
Hip-hop Drug Use Explained ALIVE AND WELL, MAYBE? – Jan. 21, 2021 - Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, was the cause of 151 deaths in our county in 2019 compared to the 92 deaths reported the year before, said the November report. While 275 d... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylJan 26 2021opioid crisisopioidsOverdose
Fentanyl Is in Everything IS NOTHING SACRED? – Jan. 21, 2120 - 2020 was the deadliest year ever for overdoses in Philadelphia. The surge is being fueled by deaths among methamphetamine and PCP users. The city’s top substance abuse offi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionJan 26 2021opioid crisisopioidsOverdose
2,000 Arizonans Overdosed on Fentanyl in 2020 WATCH – OD Ideation? – Jan. 1, 2021 - That’s the grim, unfortunate reality of the drug, that Roy and Wendy Plunk know all too well. “I mean, I’m never going to be the same, you know? Part of my heart is gone... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionJan 12 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdose
Woman admits to ‘heinous and thoughtless’ drug deal Not the face of evil – Dec. 18, 2020 - According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine, which is processed to make heroin. In ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 22 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin Addictionopioid crisisopioids
Overdose Deaths Outpace COVID-19 Deaths in SF Heaven’s Overcrowding... – Dec. 19, 2020 - The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far worse if it wasn’t for the nearly 3,000 times Narcan was used from January to the begi... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDec 22 2020depressionDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin Addictionlife expectancyMental Healthmethopioid crisisopioidsOverdose
U.S. Overdose Deaths Reach Record Highs WHY? – Dec. 17, 2020 - The primary driver behind the record-breaking numbers appeared to be the use of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, which increased 38.4%. Of 38 U.S. jurisdictions with available synth... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 22 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin Addictionlife expectancyMental Healthmethopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinrelapse
Philadelphia Nearing Record for Fatal Drug Overdoses Death Marches On – December 6, 2020 - In a study published in JAMA Psychiatry this week, researchers monitoring an emergency medical systems database in 47 states found that medics were responding to more than... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDec 15 2020depressionDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdose
Woman’s Overdose Death Shocks Family Not another statistic – December 11th, 2020 - After getting clean, she started working there and helped other women in recovery keep tabs on their medications and appointments. She had found her purpose hel... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneCompassionDec 15 2020depressionDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylinterventionlife expectancylonelinessMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoserelapse
Drug deaths were on rise locally; then the virus hit The American way of death – Now, 2020 - Overdose deaths have spiked in San Diego County this year, as an already worsening drug epidemic collides with the coronavirus pandemic. Over the summer, that amounted to... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDec 1 2020Drug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin AddictionMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Overdoses hits service industry workers in Philly: thought they were doing cocaine White Powder Warning – Nov. 20, 2020 - Since Nov. 12, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s office has confirmed three overdose deaths among workers in the restaurant and bar industry. The city’s Department of Pu... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylNov 24 2020OverdosePhiladelphia
‘We Are Shipping To The U.S.’: Inside China’s Online Synthetic Drug Networks LISTEN – Exporting Death – Nov. 17, 2020 - Chen is one of more than 100 vendors who market fentanyl or related chemicals out of facilities across China, and his story illustrates how networks are getting aroun... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylNov 24 2020
What this doctor learned about addiction after 40 years in medicine Treat people with care and respect – Oct 8, 2020 - What happened in Pittsburgh is instructive because the steel industry collapsed, and, along with that, communities collapsed, and drugs came in. When communities and... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOctober 13 2020opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecoveryRecovery Advocate
Two fentanyl deaths a day in San Francisco Golden Gate Deaths – Oct 10, 2020 - Paramedics revive an overdose victim in the Tenderloin in July. San Francisco is on track to lose more than 700 people to drugs in 2020 — or nearly two every day. more@SFChronic... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyllife expectancyOctober 13 2020
Cuomo Calls for Arrests of Public Drug Users Lock them up! – Sep. 30, 2020 - "We need to stabilize the city now and there is a lot of anxiety,” Cuomo said. “I have seen this city go through cycles. Most of the younger guys—you’ve only seen an upcycle. You don’t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin AddictioninterventionOctober 6 2020opioid crisisopioidsoxycontin
Family sells t-shirts to benefit overdose victim’s child WATCH – The little ones left behind – Sep. 14, 2020 - Both men were into racing so the Schultz family hopes these t-shirts in his memory alert others to the danger of street drugs laced with fentanyl. “I hope they... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylLeonard Buschellife expectancyOverdoseSept 22 2020
NY charges Johnson & Johnson with fraud over opioid claims Innocent until proven greedy – Sep. 17, 2020 - “Misrepresentation of opioids to consumers for profit is inexcusable,” Cuomo said in a statement. Johnson & Johnson did not immediately respond to requests for comme... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylSept 22 2020
Revamped OxyContin hasn’t stemmed ODs No, really? – Sept. 12, 2020 - The surge of painkiller abuse that started in the 1990s has long been linked to OxyContin, which launched in 1996. Unlike the original drug, the revamped version was found to limit a... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanyloxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 15 2020
More than one person a day died of an overdose in SF last year American Horror Story – Sep. 1, 2020 - According to a Department of Public Health report released Monday, 441 people died of an overdose in 2019. That is more than one per day for an entire year, and an ... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOverdoseSept 8 2020
Denver Reports 83% Increase in Drug Deaths in First Half of Year Dying for that Fentanyl Feeling – August 27, 2020 - Health officials are urging people to review the resources below and be proactive about preventing overdose deaths: Find out more about naloxone and where t... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseSept 1 2020
I’m celebrating 64 years of sobriety, I know what isolation does to those in recovery Trying minds for trying times – August 28, 2020 - By all accounts, the number of relapses nationwide has increased since March, as have the numbers of accidental overdoses and suicides. There is little wonder that we... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousCoronavirusfentanyllonelinessMental HealthRecoveryRehabSept 1 2020
Deadly Overdose Spike During Pandemic LISTEN – How much more horrible will it get? – August 13, 2020 - Making matters worse is a separate trend: Street drugs are often more dangerous now because more dealers are lacing products with a deadly synth... Read More...Alcohol AddictionAugust 18 2020CoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdose
Overdose Deaths Stratified Among Latinx People No Walls – August 12, 2020 - Nationally, Hispanic people, the category selected by data, see far lower rates of overdose deaths than non-Hispanic white people. But Hispanic people are not a monolith, and there is con... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 18 2020Drug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdose
Former Angels employee charged in connection with Tyler Skaggs’ death Doesn’t look like a murderer – July 7, 2020 - The Drug Enforcement Administration determined in its investigation that Kay had met with Skaggs and had text exchanges with him regarding drugs the night before the pitc... Read More...August 11 2020Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyl
Pharma Giant Floods Sioux Reservation With Opioids A killing for a living – July 30, 2020 - The pills flowed freely for at least a decade starting in the early 2000s, according to Wolf Necklace and several other members of the tribe who spoke with VICE News for... Read More...August 4 2020Big PharmaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioids
John Brogan, high-profile addiction specialist, found dead Stay Resolute – July 31, 2020 - Brogan was an addiction recovery specialist who had worked closely with former Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato in efforts to stem the county’s opioid crisis. That work followed... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAugust 4 2020Drug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdose