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The CIA Helped Export Opium From Afghanistan

WATCH – BIG PHARMA’S BIG PARTNER – Sept. 19, 2015 - In the same month, it was reported that opium production is stronger than ever in Afghanistan, which now produces 90 percent of the world’s supply of t... Read More...

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Russia says US Turned Afghanistan Into Global Illicit Drug Lab In 20 Yrs

TALIBAN JUNKIES – August 19. 2021 - The production of opiates has increased more than 40 times,” he said. According to Patrushev, the West has never been able to train the army, police and security services of A... Read More...

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Opium: Afghanistan’s Export That Funded The Taliban

HEROIN’S BAD WITHDRAWAL – August 16, 2021 - Afghan farmers weigh myriad factors in deciding how much poppy to plant. These range from annual precipitation and the price of wheat, the main alternative crop to p... Read More...

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Adolescent misuse of prescription opioids may lead to heroin use in adulthood

LOCKS ON EVERY MEDICINE CABINET? – July 13, 2021 - Opioid misuse and overdoses are a major problem in the United States. One factor that may be leading to the rate of heroin dependence is the growing pop... Read More...

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Suspects Used ‘Call Centers’ to Sell Heroin

WATCH – WHAT’S WRONG WITH INSTAGRAM? – July 13, 2021 - Two Southern California call centers that facilitated illegal drug deliveries distributed at least $2 million worth of heroin before a federal grand jury i... Read More...

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Tip that cops were having sex with woman with SUD triggered FBI probe

TO DISHONOR AND PERV – July 23, 2021 -That tip arrived in early 2018, Special Agent Daniel Wright said during the sixth day of the corruption trial of former Detective Christopher Collare. Collare and anothe... Read More...

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‘Lying, stealing, cheating’: dream puts jockey’s life back on the track

WATCH – RIDING TALL! – July 13, 2021 - Moya reflected on his harrowing journey while seated in the stable office of trainer Anthony Margotta, whose own heroin addiction cost him everything before slowly ... Read More...

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Free Heroin, Cocaine and Meth Given Away in Front of Police Station

SAFER THAN CIGARETTES? – July 16, 2021 - “In British Columbia, we have a long-standing overdose crisis,” Nyx told Newsweek. “That crisis is actually caused by the failure of the regime of prohibition. A hundred... Read More...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE’s NIKKI SIXX Celebrates 20 Years Of Sobriety

MOTLEY NO MORE – July 2, 2021 - And do you know what you’re gonna do? YOU’RE GONNA STAY SOBER ONE DAY AT A TIME. You are the miracle, the one that breaks the addiction chain, the one who is a living amens. The ... Read More...

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Opioids rip through U.S. workforce, deaths at record High

NODDING OFF AT THE OFFICE? WHO ME? – June 18, 2021 - Before the COVID-19 pandemic was the drug epidemic. Its relentless toll added a record 90,722 overdose deaths in the U.S. for the year through November 2020, a gr... Read More...

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He Almost Lost Everything. Then An Arrest Changed His Life

LISTEN – STRANGE MIRACLE – June 19, 2021 - He found enough temporary work to pay rent on a room, ate at soup kitchens, and stole and resold goods for cash. “Feeding that addiction,” he says. “Feeding that mo... Read More...

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Fentanyl use surpasses heroin; horse “tranq” waits in sidelines

A MORE DEADLY DEATH – June 6, 2021- “Folks that are using heroin and fentanyl are transitioning to (Xylazine),” said Shea Madden, executive director of the West Branch Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission. “I thin... Read More...

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Kelly Osbourne: Vicodin at 13 led to heroin

WATCH – BACK ON THE WAGON – June 3, 2021 - However, the former MTV star said it didn’t take long for her addiction issues to spiral out of control. “Very quickly, it went from Vicodin to Percocet, fro... Read More...

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Can We Make Opioids Less Addictive?

WATCH – ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE – May 16, 2021 - As it turned out, Sertürner got addicted while doing the research. And although he sounded the alarm, people didn’t listen. Within a couple of decades morphine w... Read More...

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The Case for Legalizing Heroin

NO MORE FENTANYL!!! – April 29, 2021 - The addiction researcher Carl Hart argues against the distinction between hard and soft drugs. Hart, who was one of the first Black scientists to attain tenure at Columbia... Read More...

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How One Man Overcame His Drug Addictions by Faith

HIGHER POWER WORKS – April 22, 2021 - At the age of 20, Barr was held down by a group of friends while they injected heroin into his veins, which started his 22-year drug addiction. At the height of his addicti... Read More...

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My parents were addicted to heroin, and I had a happy childhood.

IT’S ALL IN THE BOOK – April 12, 2021 - Audrey told me they fought a lot when he stayed with her. She didn’t want him doing drugs in her house, and often noticed cash missing. “I was so furious with him when yo... Read More...

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Heroin-Using Professor Wants to Change How We Think About Drugs

BLACK TAR: THE NEW DIGESTIF? – April 10, 2021 - Dr. Hart argued that most of what you think you know about drugs and drug abuse is wrong: that addiction is not a brain disease; that most of the 50 million Americans ... Read More...

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“Runaway Princess: A Hopeful Tale of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness’

CATCH HER IF YOU CAN – April 2, 2021 - Runaway Princess: A Hopeful Tale Of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness is a true story, laced with wicked humor and much pathos, of Mary Goggin’s Irish Catholic upbringing... Read More...

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‘Recovery Café’ opens to help people struggling with addiction

SOBRIETY IS ON THE MENU – March 25, 2021 - Glass explained she had been addicted to several different drugs for 19 years, including pain killers, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine. She said she has now been... Read More...

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Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth

MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 1997 - Lyrics I never thought you'd be a junkie because heroin is so passe.But today, if you think that I don't know about depression and emotional pain,You're insane, or you're a fool who has... Read More...

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Sober living home in Utah to use medical cannabis

WATCH – CALIFORNIA SOBER HITS UTAH – March 25, 2021 - Shane Ericksen, who owns Men’s Tribal House, says medical cannabis maintenance has proven to be a harm reduction tool to treat things like chronic pain and ... Read More...

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Two Incredible Looks at the Scourge of Heroin by Gil Scott-Heron & James Brown

LISTEN! – THE TRACKS OF OUR TEARS – March 24, 2021 - We wanted to look at two songs from the 1970s that dove deeply into the morass of drug addiction. The first is “Home is Where the Hatred Is,” a Gil Scott-Her... Read More...

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Davina McCall says it’s a ‘miracle’ she’s still alive

QUITTING TIME ONLY COMES TO THE LIVING – March 12, 2021 - I was partying a lot and it was the ecstasy era and it was late Eighties, early Nineties – summer of love. “Everybody hugging each other, and s... Read More...

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Ex-addict who ‘used crack & heroin at 15, overdosed 19 TIMES’ reveals sober transformation

ANYONE CAN DECIDE TO STOP – Feb. 28, 2021 - She is now eager to tell her story and help show people there is a “solution to this disease”. “I lived a life full of misery and prayed every time that I slept to... Read More...

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Story of Heroin Addiction in 1970s West Berlin Gets Modern Remake

PRE-FENTANYL – Feb. 19, 2021 - Christiane Felscherinow’s lengthy taped interviews with two journalists formed the backbone of the book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, which was published in 1978 and made into a fil... Read More...

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‘Cherry’: Film Review

NOT ON TOP – Feb. 25, 2021 - The muscular camerawork of Newton Thomas Sigel, with its swooping drone shots and virtuoso tracking sequences, is impressive on a craft level, especially if you’ve ever felt the nee... Read More...

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Dan Schneider of Netflix’s The Pharmacist at Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit

FROM LOSS COMES HOPE – Feb. 26, 2021 - "As overdose cases are rapidly increasing and treatments for substance use disorders are becoming more challenging, we arrive at a critical moment within the opioid a... Read More...

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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...

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