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Walgreens Filled Millions of Illegitimate Prescriptions for Opioids and other Drugs

MURDERERS? – Jan. 17, 2025 - Filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the complaint says the drugstore chain’s pharmacists filled controlled substance prescriptions with clear red fla... Read More...

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How Native Mothers Beat Opioid Addiction

OM - ORIGINAL MAMAS – Nov. 20, 2024 - On White Earth Reservation in northeastern Minnesota, a culturally specific treatment program helps Native parents struggling with opioid addiction. The Maternal Outreach and Mit... Read More...

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This Book Will Save Your Life: The New Medical Cure for Opioid Addiction

NEW BOOK! READING MATTERS – Nov. 15, 2024 - “This is a pointed and urgent challenge not just for those suffering addiction, but for all of us who care about the dignity of the human person and sacredness of human lif... Read More...

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Use Psilocybin to Halt Relapse in Opioid Addicts?

LIKE MAGIC – Oct. 18, 2024 - The trial, led by Imperial College London, will focus on whether psilocybin – the active compound in magic mushrooms – combined with psychological support, can help to prevent relapse in ... Read More...

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Virginia Filmmaker’s New Take On Opioid Epidemic

AUDIO – A KILLER PILL – Oct. 26, 2024 - The film begins with attorney Paul Farrell Junior giving a tour of his hometown – Huntington, West Virginia. “There’s been a slow decay. The jobs have dried up,” he says. “C... Read More...

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The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis

READING MAKES YOU SMARTER – Oct. 18, 2024 - The opioid crisis and the punitively high cost of insulin seem like two sides of the same terrible coin: when healthcare is more about profit than healing. We are barely be... Read More...

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Former Ohio Doctor’s Part In Opioid Epidemic Detailed In New Book

DO NO HARM INDEED – Oct. 18, 2024 - Paul Volkman operated two pain clinics in southeastern Ohio and was eventually convicted of drug offenses and is currently in federal prison. His story is outlined in the book “Pre... Read More...

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Opioid Overdoses Are Down Nationwide! WHY?

AUDIO – STILL TOO MANY – Oct. 9, 2024 - Drug overdose deaths nationwide are down 10% compared to last year, according to federal data. That’s a big drop in contrast to the skyrocketing overdose death rates seen over ... Read More...

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Staten Island Receives $700K to support Children of Opioid Addiction

HELPING HANDS AND HEARTS – Oct. 9, 2024 - STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. “The fentanyl and overdose epidemic is the crisis of our times and under no circumstances can we allow our young people to become collateral damage ... Read More...

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Senator Katie Britt Speaks On Opioid Crisis

VIDEO – TALK LOUDLY, HURRY – Oct. 10, 2024 - According to the American Addiction Recovery Association, the addiction epidemic is the number one cause for Americans 18-45. During her time in office, Senator Britt h... Read More...

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DOJ Announces Largest-Ever $1.3B Pharmaceutical Opioid Bust

BIG PHARMA BIG CRIMES – Oct. 3, 2024 - The DOJ unsealed charges against five pharmaceutical distributor executives, sales representatives, and brokers. Three Houston-based pharmacy operators were also charged in the ... Read More...

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How Narcan Reverses Opioid Overdoses

VIDEO – PICK SOME UP TODAY – Sept. 23, 2024 - Narcan, also known as Naloxone, is a critical tool to fight overdoses. It rapidly reverses the potentially fatal effects of opioids in the body, but how does it do that? ... Read More...

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Drug Overdoses Leading Cause of Death in Teens

VIDEO – TEENAGE WASTELAND – Sept. 17, 2024 - The California Overdose Surveillance dashboard says in 2023, the county had 77 opio... Read More...

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Can This Psychedelic Help Cure Opioid Addiction?

TRY IT ALREADY! – Sept. 15, 2024 - The Psychedelic Assembly attracts a certain type of clientele. The walls of the group’s Manhattan meeting space are lined with LSD blotter art and Alice in Wonderland parapher... Read More...

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Philly Residents Get Meds from ‘Bupe Bus’

THE MOUNTAIN COMES TO YOU – &n... Read More...

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Faulty Drug Test Could Take Your Newborn Away

AUDIO – MALPRACTICE TODAY – Sept. 7, 2024 - Hospitals across the country routinely drug test people coming in to give birth, using pee-in-a-cup tests that are notoriously imprecise. People who have eaten poppy seed b... Read More...

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‘Hope is Alive’ is Changing the Lives of Addicts

VIDEO – LOVE MATTERS! – Sept. 10, 2024 - Hope Is Alive aims to change the lives of addicts and alcoholics by offering support groups and placing clients in homes with other people on the road to recovery. Julie... Read More...

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Exhibit Reveals Sketches of Loved Ones Lost To Opioid Deaths

JUST TOO TOO SAD – Aug. 30, 2024 - “Into Light” is a collection of hand drawn portraits and stories of ordinary people who lost that battle. Theresa Clower, lost her son to an opioid overdose after a ten year stru... Read More...

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Illegal Clinic Distributed 3.4 Million Opioid Pills

VIDEO – SUPPLY & DEMAND? – Aug. 15, 2024 - The four-year-long investigation began after the Sheriff’s Office learned Tri-County Medical Center LLC, was operating as an illegal pain-management clinic. Through the ... Read More...

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Scientists Uncover Mechanism Behind Opioid Addiction – Could Revolutionize Treatment

IT’S NOT THE DOPAMINE – Aug. 16, 2024 - In the journal Science, his team found that an understudied brain region responsible for aversion, the dorsal peduncular nucleus, is highly responsive to opioids. Surprisingly,... Read More...

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The Pill That Could End the Opioid Epidemic

AUDIO – VERY IMPORTANT – Aug. 8, 2024 - This approach of broadening access has worked elsewhere. In the ’80s and ’90s, France pushed this treatment to address its heroin crisis and saw overdose deaths drop by 79 pe... Read More...

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Jersey Doctor Busted in Oxycodone Scam

BAD DOCTOR – July 25, 2024 - Federal officials reported that 32-year-old Jasmine McGregor and 35-year-old Jhenelle Lewis of Paterson admitted to conspiring with Dr. Lisa Ferraro to illegally prescribe oxycodon... Read More...

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$86 Million Opioid Settlement

NOT ENOUGH! – July 26, 2024 - Indivior reached an $86 million settlement with 16 U.S. states over the drug manufacturer’s alleged role in spreading opioid addiction across the United States, New York Att... Read More...

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The Opioid Crisis: A Silent Killer Lurking

WILL IT EVER END? – July 26, 2024 - Dr. Louise Stanger, a noted interventionist, stresses the need for compassion. “Only through meeting individuals where they are at with empathy and care can we build pathway... Read More...

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Acupuncture Can Shorten Methadone Treatments

EAST MEETS WEST – July 10, 2024 - Eight weeks of acupuncture was found to reduce the dose of methadone needed to control opioid cravings, which could make patients likelier to stick with their treatment. ... Read More...

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Coach Scott Cochran Reveals Opioid Addiction

FREE AT LAST – June 29, 2024 - Cochran rose to a prominence in college football, he battled debilitating headaches. His doctors tried multiple medications until, in 2010, eventually landing on a solution: oxyc... Read More...

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Doctor Convicted for Prescription Practices: Gets 300 year Sentence

VIDEO – OPIATES ON PARADE – June 22, 2024 - A Maine doctor could be sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for her practices of overprescribing opioids. Dr. Merideth Norris, 53, of Kennebunk, was co... Read More...

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Will Murderous Sackler Family Face a Reckoning?

STILL MASS MURDERERS – June 27, 2024 - A divided Court blocked a controversial proposed Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan that would have provided billions of dollars to help address the nation’s opioid cris... Read More...

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How a University of Chicago-Trained Doctor Became the ‘Pill Mill Killer’

FACE OF EVIL – June 7, 2024 - Over time, Paul Volkman, a doctor trained at the University of Chicago’s medical school, developed a bedside manner that ended many lives. He allegedly prescribed and dispensed mi... Read More...

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No End to Opioid Epidemic “in the foreseeable future”

VIDEO – PESSIMIST OR PROGNOSTICATOR? – May 29, 2024 - “What we have to understand is that with our growing knowledge of how the brain is affected in people with substance use disorders, is that fear or scolding is ... Read More...

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