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Residents Raise Money for Addiction Billboard

VIDEO – COMMUNITY HEARTACHE SHARED – July 30 2022 - Video Only - Boonville residents raise money for addiction billboard. more@WAGMTV ... Read More...

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New York City Busts Decline, Overdose Deaths Soar

LIVE AND LET DIE? – July 30, 2022 - Before their son Paul fatally overdosed on fentanyl-laced cocaine, Robert and Donna Mina of Staten Island recall few, if any services to help him — and allegedly littl... Read More...

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New Jersey’s EXTREME Plan to End Fentanyl Deaths

COULD LOCK THEM UP WORK? – July 25, 2022 - He said this may sound harsh but “it is such a volatile and lethal drug, those who inject or inhale fentanyl run the risk of immediate death.” “It’s very lethal, th... Read More...

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Teva Reaches $4.25 Billion Settlement Over Opioid Flooding

IS THAT A LOT OF MONEY? – July 26, 2022 - The deal — worth up to $4.25 billion — came after a series of blistering trials and previous settlements in individual cases across the country over the past year. T... Read More...

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DEA in Miami Warns of Synthetic Drug Mass Overdose Events

VIDEO – MURDER IN MIAMI – July 18, 2022 - Mass-overdose events typically occur when criminals market drugs like cocaine, meth, or heroin when the drug is actually a synthetic opioid like fentanyl or when drug d... Read More...

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NEW BOOK – American Cartel: The Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry!

VIDEO – THE AMERICAN DREAM IS OPIATED – July 8, 2022 - The book is an indictment of the astonishing corporate greed and government complicity; of mercenary lobbyists and lawyers sustained by bought-off politici... Read More...

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New Approach to Opioid Addiction

NEW TO WHO? – July 18, 2022 - At the federal level, methadone, which has been prescribed for more than 40 years, is the most regulated drug in the country. There are strict guidelines on who can prescribe it (g... Read More...

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‘Group Inc.’ Doubles Down on Telehealth with App to Treat Opioid Addiction

AND MEDS TOO? – July 19, 2022 - Like many healthcare provider organizations, Groups, a value-based care provider of opioid addiction treatment, had to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic overnight. THE PROBLEM In o... Read More...

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Doctor Faces Lawsuit Alleging He Caused Opioid Addiction

ONLY 2,400? – July 22, 2022 - Graves, who is joined in the lawsuit by his wife, Sandi Jo, claims he was hospitalized several times after receiving his final prescription from Titus on Sept. 21, 2020 -- shortly... Read More...

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What Ethnographers Have Learned from People Who Use Drugs

OBSERVE DON’T ARREST – July 11, 2022 - For some ethnographic researchers, this means not simply recording the experiences of people who use drugs, but incorporating them into the research process. A recent pape... Read More...

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Colorado: 200,000 Fentanyl Pills Seized in Life-Saving Bust

SWALLOWING DEATH? – July 6, 2022 - Gov. Jared Polis signed Colorado’s new “fentanyl accountability” bill at a ceremony at the state Capitol in May – the new law provides stricter criminal penalties for the poss... Read More...

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What’s Really Going on in Those Police Fentanyl Exposure Videos?

BS? – July 13. 2022 - It’s not that the symptoms seen on video are feigned. Some psychologists suggest a kind of “mass psychogenic illness” is afoot, or a form of conversion disorder — neurological symptoms wit... Read More...

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A Path to the Legal Regulation of All Drugs

SANITY AT LAST? – July 14, 2022 - Amid a century-long drug war in the United States, things are getting worse. Currently, over 100,000 annual deaths are attributed to “overdose,” most involving more than one... Read More...

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Teva Pharmaceutical Lied About Role in Opioid Crisis

IT WASN’T JUST PURDUE – July 11, 2022 - In a court filing, Attorney General Letitia James said new evidence showed that a senior Teva tax executive had in a sworn affidavit made “demonstrably false” representat... Read More...

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How 4 Doctors Beat the Feds in Botched $500 Million Pill Mill Case

GANG OF FOUR – June 30, 2022 - In a major blow to the government, a federal jury acquitted Dr. Bothra and three other doctors of all charges this week, with Bothra going home a free man, stopping first at McDo... Read More...

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Beth Macy Proud of Dopesick’s 14 Emmy Nominations

AUDIO – IT ALL STARTS WITH WORDS ON THE PAGE – July 12, 2022 - “It’s really great to see the show getting accolades,” Macy said. As one of the executive producers of her show, Macy will get to personally tak... Read More...

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Conflict Zones Are Magnets For Synthetic Drug Production

CHAOS IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS – July 4, 2022 - Opium production worldwide grew seven per cent between 2020 and 2021 to 7,930 tons—predominantly due to increased production in Afghanistan. However, the global area... Read More...

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American Cartel: Inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER – July 7, 2022 - Rannazzisi came under attack by a tightknit coalition of drug company executives and lobbyists with close ties to members of Congress, and high-ranking officials insid... Read More...

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Playing Russian Roulette…How Fentanyl Addiction Tore a Santa Clarita Family Apart

LAST ADDICT STANDING – July 1, 2022 - Their lives resembled those of the many trapped by addiction – in and out of rehab, jail cells and hospital beds – until the two Santa Clarita parents suffering from fentan... Read More...

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Federal Judge Sides With Big Pharma – NO FINES

BREAKING NEWS! – July 4th, 2022 – A federal judge ruled Monday that three major drug companies did not cause public nuisance when they distributed millions of opioids. more@newsmax ... Read More...

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Drug Overdoses Continue to Rise Inside NYC Homeless Shelters

SAD to TRAGIC to DEADLY – June 30, 2022 - The rate of overdose has prompted immediate action from DHS and has spurred calls for more effective federal, state and local strategies to keep drug users safe amid a ... Read More...

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It’s An Overdose Crisis, NOT An Opioid Crisis

HARM REDUCTION is DEATH REDUCTION – June 27, 2022 - Anyone using pills or powder needs a naloxone kit, too.Rebrand naloxone as an overdose prevention drug rather than a drug that reverses an opioid ove... Read More...

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US Consulting Firm Guided Companies To Make Millions From Deaths During Opioid Crisis

AND THEY KNEW IT WAS A KILLER – June 29, 2022 - Much has been disclosed over the years about McKinsey’s relationship with Purdue Pharma, including the consulting firm’s recommendation that the drug maker “turb... Read More...

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I’ve come a long way’: Florida Woman Finds Hope and Passion

VIDEO – REBORN IN RECOVERY – June 27, 2022 - Tina Sizemore shares her story of drug use and addiction -- her lowest point and her road to recovery -- and her new passion for gardening. Opioid use continues to ... Read More...

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Overdose Deaths Rise Behind Bars

NO NARCAN THERE? – June 19, 2022 - Even if Alabama’s prisons and jails are especially overrun by drugs, death, and violence, their problems are not unique in the U.S. Within three weeks this spring, incarcerate... Read More...

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Jaylon Ferguson, Baltimore Ravens Linebacker, Died From an Overdose

COKE CAN KILL – July 1, 2022 - Bruce Goldfarb, spokesman for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Maryland, said Mr. Ferguson’s death had been ruled accidental. The Baltimore police previously ... Read More...

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Mexican Cartels Targeting Montana With Fentanyl

VIDEO – FIRST AMERICANS DYING – June 22, 2022 - Ollinger was right. Her 33-year-old son, Justin Lee Littledog, died March 7 of a fentanyl overdose. She says his autopsy’s toxicology report showed there was 15.5... Read More...

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ISO New, Dangerous Synthetic Opioid Emerging

HOW CAN THINGS GET WORSE? – June 1, 2022 - In powder form, ISO can appear yellow, brown, or off-white in color. DEA regional forensic laboratories have seen this drug mixed into heroin and/or fentanyl (and mark... Read More...

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