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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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Drug‑Free Solution to Opioid Withdrawal

SOON FOR BABIES TOO? – Feb. 18, 2021 - The Texas startup was founded in Houston in 2018, but is now headquartered in Dallas where it develops medical devices such as the system. Spark received clearance from... Read More...

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The Opioid Crisis, Fueled by Covid, Is Worse Than Ever

MORE BAD NEWS – Feb. 20. 2021 - Drug overdoses of all kinds killed nearly 84,000 people in the U.S. from August 2019 to July 2020. That’s 23% more than in the previous 12-month period, and the highest number of... Read More...

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NFL Seeking Information on Cannabis as an Alternative to Opioids

WATCH – 4-20-51-50 HIIIGH-KE – Feb. 17, 2021 - The NFL finally loosened its cannabis testing policy last offseason, amid mounting public sentiment in favor of decriminalization and, in some states, full legalization... Read More...

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Woman Recovering From Opioid Addiction Sues to Get Methadone

CRAZY TIME – FEB 12, 2021 - But Finnigan, 53, who lives in Chicago, said things changed for her in 2019. That’s when doctors put her on methadone, a medication that is itself an opioid but curbs the craving for... Read More...

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Digital Rehab is Helping Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis

WATCH – NONE TOO SOON – Feb. 8, 2021 - Besides drug addictions including opioids and cocaine, the start-up offers programmes to aid the recovery of those with gambling, smoking and alcohol addictions and chroni... Read More...

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Drug companies seek billion-dollar tax deductions from opioid settlement

$ $ $ $ $ $ – February 12, 2021 - The deductions may deepen public anger toward companies prosecutors say played key roles in a destructive public health crisis that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year. ... Read More...

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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...

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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...

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Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America

POISONED AMERICA c/o BIG PHARMA – 2020 - “I could not put down Gerald Posner’s Pharma, the definitive story of how one family, the Sacklers, set out to get exquisitely rich on the back of unsuspecting Americans... Read More...

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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...

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McKinsey Fined $600 Million For “turbocharging” Opioid Deaths

BOTTOM LINES KILL PEOPLE – Feb. 3, 2021 - McKinsey’s extensive work with Purdue included advising it to focus on selling lucrative high-dose pills, the records show, even after the drugmaker pleaded guilty in 2007 t... Read More...

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With Administration Focused On Other Crises, Drug Epidemic Is Exploding

LISTEN – STORMY FEBRUARY – Jan. 29, 2021 - The new administration has also appointed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to head the Health and Human Services Department. Becerra, who hasn’t been conf... Read More...

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While US Focused On Other Crises, Drug Epidemic Is Exploding

LISTEN – WHEN WILL IT END? – Jan. 29, 2021 - “Our country is facing many simultaneous crises and President Biden understands that,” an administration official wrote in an email. “The President has laid out key ... Read More...

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Opioid Deaths Occur Less Often in Areas with More Cannabis Storefronts

WAKE AND LIVE – Jan. 30, 2021 - “Our findings suggest that higher storefront cannabis dispensary counts are associated with reduced opioid-related mortality rates at the county level,” the authors write. “While... Read More...

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Watch All-Star Cast Take On The Opioid Epidemic EXCLUSIVE Preview of CRISIS

BATTLING A DEMON – Jan. 20, 2021 - Those interwoven storylines follow Dr. Tyrone Brower (Oldman), a university professor who battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a major pharmaceutical com... Read More...

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The Sackler Family and Mine

THEM AND US – Jan. 19, 2021 - On May 23, 2019, the day my son was coming home from college, I was flying to Warsaw for an awards ceremony. He texted me that he’d gotten home all right but complained that he wa... Read More...

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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...

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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...

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Former Opioid Addict Gives Back Through Random Acts of Kindness

WATCH – One good turn at a time – Jan. 8, 2021 - “There’s trash everywhere, there’s people everywhere, like, I was sleeping in abandoned buildings,” she said. “It’s so out of control that they can’t really get... Read More...

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Overdose Concerns Following Latest Round of Stimulus Checks

WATCH – What we worry – Jan. 13, 2021 - “When you give them $600 they’re going to really take it to the limit and that really will raise your chances of losing your life,” said Thomas Gooch, the Prevention Dire... Read More...

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Demi Lovato Addresses 2018 Overdose in New Docu-series

The healing has begun – Jan. 13, 2021 - “For the first time, you’ll be able to see my chronicle of struggle and ongoing healing from my point of view. I’m grateful that I was able to take this journey to face ... Read More...

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Addiction Recovery Providers Call On Biden To Address Opioid Crisis

LISTEN – More Must Be Done! – JAN 11, 2021 - Two health crises will confront President-elect Joe Biden when the Democrat takes office on Jan. 20: the coronavirus pandemic and the opioid epidemic. WCPN reports that t... Read More...

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Psychiatrist Sentenced in Federal Pill Mill Case

WATCH – Shrinking from Responsibility – Jan. 14, 2021 - A federal prosecutor explained this case was different than other high-profile pill mill cases in the Middle District, acknowledging there was insufficient evi... Read More...

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As Overdoses Compete with Covid-19 Deaths, Feds Make It Easier to Prescribe Addiction Drugs

While we all gently weep – Jan. 16, 2021 - On Thursday, HHS officials did just that: physicians are no longer required to have a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine — just a DEA registration that nearly every doc... Read More...

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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...

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Doctor’s Secret Pill Ring Leaves His Patients Dead

Prisoner of greed – Jan. 2, 2021 - Li would later become known as a notoriously reckless supplier of lethal drugs — the first doctor in New York state to be convicted of killing his patients with pills. For ... Read More...

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How President Biden Can Save Lives By Slowing America’s Overdose Crisis

OPINION by Ryan Hampton – Dec. 31, 2020 - Recovery works — I’m living proof — but it requires community-based, long-term support. Connections, whether with friends and family, support groups or other types of ... Read More...

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Report Calls for More Access to Take-Home Meds for Opioid Addictions

Pandemic relief – Jan. 5, 2021 - “To get methadone, you have to show up in person every day and have people watch you take the medications,” Burke said. “Imagine if you had diabetes and you had to show up to g... Read More...

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