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The Other Health Crisis: A Resurgent Drug Epidemic

The Opiate of the Masses is Opioids – November 28, 2020 - More than 70 public health organizations in a Tuesday letter to Biden urged him to elevate the head of the White House drug office into his Cabinet, ci... Read More...

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Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty

As Guilty as Josef Mengele – Nov. 24, 2020 - Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty Tuesday to three criminal charges, formally admitting its role in an opioid epidemic that has contributed to hundreds of thousands of de... Read More...

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Artificial intelligence-based tool may help diagnose opioid addiction earlier

Robot notices you watched Drugstore Cowboy 106 times – Nov. 19, 2020 - Researchers have used machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, to develop a prediction model for the early diagnosis of opioid... Read More...

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Naloxone Should Be As Ubiquitous As Tylenol

For citizens unafraid to die – Nov. 17, 2020 - Naloxone access matters during a pandemic more than ever. The opioid epidemic, which claims the lives of over 130 Americans daily, has drastically intensified as ... Read More...

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Pills to powder: 1 in 3 high school seniors who misused prescription opioids later used heroin

Graduating to Oblivion U. – Oct. 20, 2020 - “There was an increase in opioid prescribing in the 1990s and 2000s that contributed to the opioid epidemic,” he said. “Health professionals and the larger public he... Read More...

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Mariah App, reveals haunting link of Met’s Sackler Wing to opioid crisis

Exposing the Truth – November 7, 2020 - The billionaire Sackler family is known for donating millions of dollars to museums and cultural institutions around the world. The Mariah App, however, ca... Read More...

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How Oregon’s Decriminalization of Drugs May Help Decrease Addiction and Overdoses

WATCH – Time will tell – Nov. 6, 2020 - Oregon has become the first state to decriminalize hard drugs like heroin and cocaine. Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Kassandra Frederique explains how this mov... Read More...

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Expert details psychiatrist’s role in tackling opioid crisis

Doctors know... – Nov. 7, 2020 - Currently available medication-assisted treatments for opioid use disorder include methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone. According to Sauvé, methadone allows those with opioi... Read More...

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Study examines incoming medical student knowledge of opioid overdoses and substance use disorders

Time to teach about life? – Nov. 8, 2020 - Three students at the Wayne State University School of Medicine led a new study now in press that reveals incoming medical students have greater opioid overdose knowle... Read More...

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After Meth: Dealing, desperation and a house fire

WATCH – Downward spiral ends on film – Nov. 5, 2020 - Moneyas escaped through the front window. That house fire saved him. “Here I am crying to get out of this house and 15 hours before I was trying to kill ... Read More...

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When Justice Department lawyer exposed the agency’s secret role in drug cases, intelligence community retaliated.

New Yorker by Ronan Farrow – Oct. 30, 2020 - “When I get really pissed,” McConnell told me, “I get monotone, I don’t blink.” He related to Padden what he had found in the Helios database. Padden, sixty and heavy... Read More...

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Oregon Sees 70% Increase in Overdose Deaths

Homegrown Terrorism – Oct. 30, 2020 - The release said analysts in the Injury and Prevention Section of the OHA Public Health Division found that Oregon saw a nearly 70 percent increase in the number of overdose de... Read More...

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School board candidate charged in $18 million pill scheme

Three Deathsketeers – Oct. 5, 2020 - Former Jackson Madison County School System board candidate Dr. Tameka Noel was among 49 people arrested Thursday for allegedly participating in an $18 million “pill mill” s... Read More...

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Woman who ran pill mills gets 33 years in prison

33 years more than the Sackler family – Oct. 22, 2020 - Investigators say Hofstetter initially worked at a pill mill in Hollywood owned by three of her co-defendants. As law enforcement shut down hundreds o... Read More...

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Walmart: Opioid Villain? The Curious Case of a Deep-Pocketed Defendant

Scumbag Millionaires – Oct. 23, 2020 - Walmart has been tightening its policies on filling opioid prescriptions, according to its “opioid stewardship initiative” – not just questioning particular scripts, but ... Read More...

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Sackler Family Makes $8B Opioid Deal for 100,000’s Deaths. No Jail Time.

Crime Pays – Oct. 21, 2020 - The controversial settlement, valued at more than $8.3 billion, would restructure Purdue Pharma, which entered bankruptcy last year. Going forward, the company would operate as a public t... Read More...

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Opioids in America, Part 1: Background of an epidemic

Euphoria & Greed – Oct. 10, 2020 - People who have achieved sobriety from other substances can easily fall into opioid addiction. On Sept. 21, actor and comedian Dax Shepard released to the public that ... Read More...

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Why Is Amazon Tracking Opioid Use in the United States?

Because they can? – Oct 2, 2020 - Amazon’s human resources team is tracking opioid usage among the American public as part of a project which involves monitoring internal and external threats to Amazon’s emplo... Read More...

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Doctors funneled opioids in Texas pill mill

LISTEN – Do no harm and or get caught – Oct. 5, 2020 - Two doctors and five pharmacists are among 49 people who federal law enforcement authorities in Dallas publicly alleged last week had participated in an $18 mill... Read More...

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Heart Infection Projected to Kill One in Five Who Inject Opioids

Collateral Damage – Sep. 30, 2020 - The study authors behind the model projected mortality risks based off of behaviors like frequency of injection use and risky practices, like equipment sharing and skin hygi... Read More...

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What this doctor learned about addiction after 40 years in medicine

Treat people with care and respect – Oct 8, 2020 - What happened in Pittsburgh is instructive because the steel industry collapsed, and, along with that, communities collapsed, and drugs came in. When communities and... Read More...

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United States Chamber of Commerce does not support $465M Oklahoma opioid judgment

Business as Usual – Oct 9, 2020 - Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman last summer ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million to help address the state’s opioid crisis, saying the consumer produ... Read More...

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Cuomo Calls for Arrests of Public Drug Users

Lock them up! – Sep. 30, 2020 - "We need to stabilize the city now and there is a lot of anxiety,” Cuomo said. “I have seen this city go through cycles. Most of the younger guys—you’ve only seen an upcycle. You don’t... Read More...

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‘The Drug Became His Friend’: Pandemic Drives Hike In Opioid Deaths

New York Times - Real (Bad) News – Sep. 28, 2020 - In the six months since Covid-19 brought the nation to a standstill, the opioid epidemic has taken a sharp turn for the worse. More than 40 states have recorded incr... Read More...

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Addiction is a Disease?

Maybe? Maybe not. – Sept. 14, 2020 - If addiction is a disease, then we should treat addicts the same way we treat diabetics. The goal in treating diabetics is not to cure diabetes but to limit its harm: Treatm... Read More...

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Doctor faces charges for over-prescribing for cash after 2 patients die

Paging Dr. Morte – Sep. 17, 2020 - Now the Scranton doctor accused of over-prescribing opioids in exchange for cash incentives from a drug manufacturer is facing federal charges for his allegedly illegal prescr... Read More...

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The Opioid Crisis Has Intensified During Coronavirus Pandemic

WATCH – It’s M.A.T. or DIE says Wall Street Journal – Sept. 8, 2020 - When Covid-19 struck, the U.S. was already in the grip of an expanding drug-overdose crisis. It has only gotten worse since then. Counties in s... Read More...

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Why did the justice department let Purdue off the hook for the opioid crisis?

Fortunes are at stake? – Sept. 8, 2020 - The opioid epidemic is not over. Even as Covid-19 rages, opioid-related deaths continue to devastate communities across our states. In New Hampshire, overdose deaths rose in A... Read More...

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Walmart Sued Over Opioids

Everyone knew! – August 24, 2020 - “Revelations concerning Walmart are not emerging because Walmart somehow chose to ‘come clean’ on its deplorable refusal to control how its nationwide pharmacies distributed ... Read More...

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Opioid crisis is ‘a product’ of U.S. health care

WATCH – Die Suckers Die – August 29, 2020 - The pharmaceutical industry’s opportunism — enabled by the backing of politicians and federal regulators — along with the emerging medical consensus that opioids wer... Read More...

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