Big Pharmacy Chains Also Fed Off the Opioid Epidemic Stockholders ADDICTED to Profits – May 27, 2020 - • CVS worked with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, to offer promotional seminars on pain management to its pharmacists so they could reassure patients ... Read More...Big PharmaDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 2 2020opioid crisisopioids
Andy Irons and the Ongoing Saga of the Surf World’s Opioid Epidemic Surfing on Denial – MAY 22, 2020 - Although his death came as a shock for the public, in-the-know members of the surfing world were less surprised: Irons had been self-medicating with drugs, particularly opioid... Read More...Drug Abuse and AddictionMay 26 2020opioids
What if we truly cared about the opioid crisis? Oh, What a World It Would Be – May 12, 2020 - I’m tired of reading about people being arrested for exhibiting symptoms of a medical condition. I’m frustrated by complacency in light of incremental “progress.” I... Read More...Addiction RecoveryCoronavirusMay 19 2020opioids
New Crime drama ‘Hightown’ mixes murder, opioids, recovery Addictive TV – May 15, 2020 - A murder that reverberates through the idyllic vacation spot. James Badge Dale (“Rescue Me”) co-stars as local cop Det. Ray Abruzzo, who has ties to the victim, fentanyl addic... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaMay 19 2020opioidsRecovery
Opioid epidemic was already a national crisis. Covid-19 could be making things worse On the downer side... – May 7, 2020 - Finally, the social isolation brought on by the coronavirus pandemic is leaving people especially vulnerable. Some support groups for people experiencing opioid addiction or ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 12 2020opioids
Why Dax Shepard Is ‘Pro’ His Kids ‘Doing Mushrooms – But Not ‘Cocaine or Opioids’ Father Knows Mescaline – April 29, 2020 - Shepard’s guest, Rob Lowe, agreed with him but said the “wildcard” drug is Adderall, which is something his older son Matthew took while going through college and event... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 5 2020opioids
Coronavirus Crisis Spurs Access to Online Treatment for Opioid Addiction NPR Report – April 20, 2020 - “I wish there was another way to get this done besides a pandemic,” says Dr. David Kan, chief medical officer of Bright Heart Health, a Walnut Creek, Calif., company. It has recent... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020CoronavirusinternetopioidsRecoveryRehab
Coronavirus isolation could mean death for America’s opioid addicts So Could Scoring – April 25, 2020 - “Instead of walking in, they call or we do it through video so they don’t have to come in unnecessarily and potentially put themselves or others at risk,” Smith said. Whil... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020Coronavirusopioids
New York charges Mallinckrodt over opioid claims Andrew Cuomo Rocks – April 21, 2020 - Governor Andrew Cuomo said the charges brought by New York’s Department of Financial Services are the first against a major opioid manufacturer in the regulator’s probe int... Read More...April 28 2020Big Pharmaopioids
How Big Pharma Grew Addicted to Big Profit – Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America NYT Book Review – April 19, 2020 - Posner envisions “Pharma” as a definitive history of the pharmaceutical industry “in its entirety” in a single volume. After all, he argues, people cannot really understand ho... Read More...April 28 2020Big Pharmaopioids
Officials, health experts worry coronavirus will set back opioid fight Staying on the defensive – April 10, 2020 - Only three months ago, when reported U.S. coronavirus cases were in the single digits, the Trump administration celebrated some rare good news in the battle against o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Coronavirusopioids
Walmart Under Criminal Investigation for Opioid Sales Blue Coated Drug Dealers – April 13, 2020 - In her letter to Special Master David Cohen, Singer cited a recent ProPublica article that revealed that the U.S. attorney of the Eastern District of Texas sought to ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 21 2020Big PharmaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioids
Incredible Human Damage From OxyContin Dealers Continues to Be Revealed Dead bodies in all 50 states – April 13, 2020 - A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper published last fall sheds light on Purdue’s role. The researchers, economists from the University of Pennsylv... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 14 2020Big Pharmaopioidsoxycontin
America’s new opioid shortage No Plan for pandemic – April 10, 2020 - While the pandemic is unprecedented, such shortages are not. Health experts say the U.S. government has been slow to strengthen the drug supply chain, despite recent painful r... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 14 2020opioids
Opioid Epidemic Hasn’t Gone Away With COVID-19. It’s Just Harder To Address Hell hath no fury – APRIL 2, 2020 - If a police officer responds to an overdose, they’ll try to revive the person with Narcan and leave extra with the family. But they don’t go back again. Instead, recovery coa... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 7 2020opioids
While Corona Makes Headlines, Opioid Addiction Continues to Kill Still Feeling No Pain – April 2, 2020 - I grew up in rural, rust belt Pennsylvania. Although the economy and opportunity may be limited in this part of the country, it was a wonderful place to be raised. Small schoo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 7 2020opioidsOverdose
Coronavirus Pandemic Has Made The Opioid Epidemic Even Worse You Call That An Epidemic? – March 27, 2020 - With countries closing their borders and movement restricted, recovery advocates are worried that opioid use will become more dangerous. If supplies diminish... Read More...CoronavirusMarch 31 2020opioids
In a Town Where Meth Is Eclipsing Opioids, Everyone Feels the Pain Another Meth to Clean Up – March 28, 2020 - Opioids, heroin and fentanyl remain abundant, cheap and deadly in this part of Kentucky. In 2017, the rate of fatal opioid overdoses in the state was nearly twice the... Read More...March 31 2020opioids
West Point football player got hooked on pain pills. Now he owes government $300K Piling On – March 15, 2020 - “They made it seem like I’m at West Point selling cocaine,” Rogers said. “I was just addicted to opioids.” He struck a deal to resign from the academy to avoid the prospect of a mil... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 24 2020opioids
How many body-brokering cases have been prosecuted under new law? Zero, nada, zilch, none, nil, gornish – March 12, 2020 - “There is no excuse for their failure to prosecute these cases, particularly when we desperately need an all-hands-on-deck approach to this crisis.” Si... Read More...Addiction RecoveryMarch 17 2020opioids
Mother with opioid addiction died in police custody after officers ignored her calls for help Arrested to Death – MAR. 7, 2020 - “Yeah I’m literally ill right now. I can’t even think straight. I’m gonna like literally pass out from pain,” Linsemeir tells Sgt. Moises Zanazanian who is listed as a defenda... Read More...Addiction RecoveryDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020opioids
Opioid Epidemic Might Be Much Worse Than We Thought And Getting Worse? – FEBRUARY 27, 2020 - The undercounting of opioid deaths is important because “you need to know the scale of a problem to know how to intervene in the problem,” Venkataramani says. Dealing wi... Read More...Drug Abuse and AddictionMarch 10 2020opioids
Do you keep an employee with an opioid addiction? Send to NA or Treatment – Feb. 18, 2020 - Addiction may be grounds for getting fired, but in the end, that may hurt not only the employee but the business. It’s not an easy decision for business owners. Do you ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020opioidsoxycontinRehab
Walgreens responsible for man’s opioid addiction Everyone was in on it – February 19, 2020 - Subsequently, Faulhaber has suffered from an array of bodily and mental damages, the suit continues, including “severe” discomfort and pain, functional disabilities, ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 25 2020opioids
Sackler Scions Sell Manhattan Mansion & Flee to Switzerland in the Midst of More Opioid Deaths So much death in their eyes... – February 10, 2020 - It seemed to be the best option, at least, for Mortimer and Jacqueline Sackler, the more society-facing members of the Purdue Pharma-founding family, widely ... Read More...Feb 18 2020opioidsoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Savannah doctor sentenced to 20 years in federal prison 4.6 million doses - Nobody Noticed? – Feb. 14, 2020 - Dr. Frank H. Bynes Jr., 69, of Savannah, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison and ordered to pay over $600,000 in restitution. Bynes was found guilty in ... Read More...Feb 18 2020opioidsoxycontin
Opioid executive admits to ‘no morals’ ahead of prison term COLD BLOODED MURDERERS – JANUARY 23, 2020 - Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.comT&Cs and Co... Read More...Feb 11 2020opioids
Yale doctors take on opioid addiction There’s a Pill for Everything – Jan. 30, 2020 - In 2008, when D’Onofrio and Yale collaborator David Fiellin, M.D., director of the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine, received a grant from the National Institut... Read More...Drug Abuse and AddictionFeb 4 2020opioids
He Avenged His Son’s Murder—And Exposed the Opioid Crisis in America On Netflix - True Story! – Feb. 03, 2020 - As The Pharmacist explicates via familiar non-fiction elements—elevated by both Schneider’s recordings and his alternately ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryFeb 4 2020netflixopioidsOverdose
Software Co., Practice Fusion, pushed Opioids to doctors in Secret Deal with Drugmakers Murdering For Money – January 29, 2020 - Its existence was revealed this week thanks to a government investigation. Practice Fusion agreed to pay $145 million to resolve civil and criminal cases, according to d... Read More...Big PharmaFeb 4 2020Heroin AddictionopioidsOverdose