opioid crisis

Horse Tranquilizer Crops Up In Overdose Deaths

TIME TO LEGALIZE HEROIN? –   Sept. 16, 2021 - It’s unclear exactly why xylazine is being added to the…

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Misguided Drug Policies Worsening Overdose Epidemic!

ADDICTS’ LIVES MATTER –   Sept. 17, 2021 - The United States is at a pivotal moment in its fight…

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Alex Murdaugh’s ‘fall from grace’: Addiction Fueled by Opioids

WATCH – (NOT) USING HIS HEAD –   Sept. 18, 2021 - Murdaugh’s attorneys have said their client suffers from…

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Book Writing Helps Addiction Recovery

WATCH – MEDIA: WORDS MATTER –    Sept. 6, 2021 - It’s been my passion, it’s my relief. I would…

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Kate Quigley’s Statement After Surviving Suspected Drug Overdose That Killed 3

NOTHING’S FUNNY ANYMORE –    Sept. 12, 2021 - Quigley, 39, shared the statement on her Twitter and Instagram, along…

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The Sacklers Walk Off Into the Sunset. Reform the System.

NEVER PRISON FOR KILLER BILLIONAIRES –    by Ryan Hampton Sept. 11, 2021 - During negotiations, I often asked: Why…

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Opioids Have Valid Medical Uses

OPINION by Maia Szalavitz –   Sept. 12, 2021 - But opioids are not cigarettes. And as the opioid settlements…

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Pill Mill-ions: America’s Lucrative, Criminally Resilient Quasi-Legal Drug Dealing Enterprise by Christopher Dale

GIVE THEM A DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE –   Sept. 11, 2021 - Nurse, we need a prescription pad…

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Can Vaccine Fight Opioid Epidemic?

IN THE BRAIN? –   Sept. 7, 2021 -  A similar vaccine that prevents opioids from reaching the brain also…

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Black Deaths Are Increasing Faster Than Whites

ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER –   Sept. 10, 2021 - Addiction specialist Edwin Chapman has made it his life’s work…

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Senator Edward Markey Decries Sackler Family Going Free for Murder

STILL NO JUSTICE –    Sept 2, 2021 - “A bankruptcy settlement should not absolve the Sacklers and their partners…

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Keith McCants, ex-NFL Player Struggled Who with Addiction Dead at 53

TOO DAMN SAD –   Sept. 2, 2021 -“Before [my career] was over with, I was consuming over 183 pills…

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Canada’s Drug Policy — Not Drugs — Is Killing People

OH CANADA, OH NO –    August 31, 2021 - It’s mind-boggling communities across Canada must still organize for an annual…

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Family Kills 600,000 Americans and Gets No Jail Time

THE RICH GET RICHER –    Sept. 5, 2021 - On Wednesday, the court approved a deal for the dissolution…

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Judge Approves Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy that Protects Sacklers from Jail and Lawsuits

WATCH – CROOKS OFF THE HOOK –   Sept. 1, 2021 - Drain said it was clear the wrongful marketing…

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Doctor Tried To Use Hells Angels To Kill Witness In His Opioid Fraud Trial

THEY’RE BIKERS NOT PIKERS –    August 31, 2021 - However, the unnamed informant later alerted the FBI, who then…

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Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Deals Death on Long Island

NO COMING BACK –   August 31, 2021 - On the North Fork, the dead were not hardened addicts but…

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UNSETTLED by RYAN HAMPTON

MEDIA: NEW BOOK TO BUY –    Sept. 3, 2021 - A page-turning and poignant memoir that draws back the…

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Blackfoot Helping Blackfoot Recovery Camps

WATCH – NATURE HEALS –   August 26, 2021 - Mills describes the project as “Blackfoot helping Blackfoot.” The camps…

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Texas Police Tapping Grants for Narcan

STOPS THE BECOMING DEAD –    August 27, 2021 - In the wake of Joshua’s death, Hernandez has worked with…

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DOPESICK Trailer

WATCH – THE TRUTH CAN SET YOU FREE - BUT NOT IF YOU’RE DEAD –    August 6, 2021- Hulu’s…

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Taliban to Ban Opium Production in Afghanistan

DOES THIS MEAN MORE FENTANYL? –    August 28, 2021 -  Mr. Mujahid at the time didn’t offer details of…

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Murderers Lose Appeals of Opioid Convictions

MONEY TALKS EVERYONE WALKS –   August 25, 2021 - He remains the highest-ranking pharmaceutical executive convicted for helping fuel…

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Why Hospitals and Insurers Don’t Want You to See These Prices?

MO MONEY MO MONEY MO MONEY AND SCREW YOU – August 22, 2021 - “We do not post standard cash…

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Luring Its Youth Into Tight Grip Of Addiction

KASHMIR BLUES –    August 18, 2021 - That first encounter with charas happened on a day Murad would never…

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ERs New Approach To Those Who Struggle With Addiction

LOVE THEM –    August 21, 2021 -  For years, Kayla West watched the opioid epidemic tear through her eastern…

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Suits: The New Face of the Illegal Drug Trade

DRESSING UP THE DRUG TRADE –   AUGUST 21, 2021 - Drug lords switching out gold chains for bespoke suits,…

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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…

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Billionaire Says Murderous Family Bear No Responsibility for 100,000’s of Overdose Victims

HELL IS NOT HOT ENOUGH FOR THIS SCUM –   August 18, 2021 - It is believed to be the…

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Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Claims 6 Lives in 8 Days

FATAL LINE –   August 17, 2021 - “We collectively urge that anyone who has purchased cocaine, or other narcotics,…

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