opioid crisis

Beware of Fake Drugs Laced With Fentanyl

LISTEN – ANOTHER REASON TO GET SOBER – Sept. 27, 2021 - The agency said it has seized more than 9.5 million fake pills so far this year, more than the last two years combined. It said its lab has found that tw... Read More...

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Researchers Create Living Bioengineered Nerve Circuit to Tackle Opioid Crisis

SCIENCE MAY ONE DAY DO SO... – Sept. 21, 2021 - The study is his first paper under the HEAL Initiative, or Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative, a $945 million, multi-university funding endeavor... Read More...

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Bargain Fentanyl In Heroin, Oxy, Other Drugs

HOW LITTLE IS A LIFE WORTH? – Sept 24, 2021 - I had a long conversation with one of his patients, Zachary, 31, who asked to be identified only by his first name, to protect his career. Zachary’s addic... Read More...

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An Insider from the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Speaks Out

“ZERO F*#CKS GIVEN” – Sept. 20, 2021 - In a previous life, Hampton worked as a campaign staffer for Bill Clinton. After a hiking injury, in 2003, he was prescribed opioids and fell into an addiction, in which ... Read More...

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The Pain Wouldn’t Stop Because Her Opioids Were Stolen

MEDICINE IS VERY VALUABLE ON THE STREET – Sept. 17, 2021 - The family called the police. How often do older Americans fall victim to drug diversion, in which someone steals or tampers with prescription m... Read More...

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Louisiana Dr. Indicted for Illegally Dispensing Over One Million Doses of Opioids

TO EXPLOIT AND OVERSERVE – Sept 14, 2021 - A federal grand jury in New Orleans, Louisiana, returned an indictment on August 26, 2021 charging a Louisiana physician for his role in distributing over 1,200... Read More...

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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 U.S. drug supply and whether the people who overdose are aware they are taking the drug. In Philadelphia, som... Read More...

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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 against drug overdose, with over 93,000 Americans having lost their lives to fatal drug overdose last year alone, ... Read More...

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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 an oxycodone addiction and was attempting to get off drugs when he started thinking about suicide. It’s ... Read More...

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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 love to tell you I got clean and started my skateboard company and everything was happy, but it doesn’t work th... Read More...

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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 with a note that read, “Hi guys. Upon being released from the hospital, I’ve finally had the time &a... Read More...

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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 couldn’t we just eliminate the nonbankrupt Sacklers from the process? I believe this wou... Read More...

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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 finally near completion, it is crucial not to misapply lessons learned from tobacco. Fundamentally, th... Read More...

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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 and a lawyer, STAT. Oh, and refer the patient to the county morgue. According to medical professionals direc... Read More...

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Can a Vaccine Fight Opioid Epidemic?

IN THE BRAIN? – Sept. 7, 2021 - A similar vaccine that prevents opioids from reaching the brain also is being developed by Virginia Tech researchers. This vaccine was developed by Marco Pravetoni, a U... Read More...

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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 in crime from their culpability in the opioid epidemic. While funds to support on-going treat... Read More...

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

TOO DAMN SAD – Sept. 2, 2021 -“Before was over with, I was consuming over 183 pills a week, not knowing the effects it had on my liver or my kidneys,” McCants said in a 2015 Vice Sports interview. He was neve... Read More...

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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 awareness day to draw public and policymakers’ attention to poisoned street drugs ... Read More...

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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 of the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma, which kicked off the opioid epidemic two decades ago with its i... Read More...

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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 of the company’s opioid products contributed to the country’s addiction crisis, which touched every corner of the co... Read More...

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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 had an undercover agent pose as an assassin to meet up with Braylovsky to clarify his intentio... Read More...

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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 mostly recreational users, police said, seeking a fleeting high. Behind the brief descriptions in the police reports... Read More...

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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 curtains in the fight to bring the fraudulent peddlers of OxyContin to justice. Beth Macy, bestselling a... Read More...

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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 will be led by Blackfoot people and include traditional healing and ceremony. He hopes to hav... Read More...

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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 the Texas chapter of the Association of People Against Lethal Drugs to raise awareness of Narcan and p... Read More...

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DOPESICK Trailer

WATCH – THE TRUTH CAN SET YOU FREE - BUT NOT IF YOU’RE DEAD – August 6, 2021- Hulu’s newest limited series Dopesick, starring Golden Globe-winner Michael Keaton, is a compelling look at the epicenter of ... Read More...

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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 how the Islamist group intends to enforce the ban. Local farmers in Kandahar, Uruzgan and Helman... Read More...

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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 the U.S. opioid epidemic. His co-defendants Michael Gurry, Sunrise Lee... Read More...

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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 rates, which typically will not reflect the price of care for uninsured patients.” Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angele... Read More...

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