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Rite Aid Sued for Allowing “millions of opioid pills” to Flow Illegally From Stores

MORE THAN THE CARTELS? – March 15, 2023 - The lawsuit, filed in Cleveland federal court, said Rite Aid repeatedly filled prescriptions from May 2014 to June 2019 that were medically unnecessary, for off-label use or ... Read More...

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Denmark’s Opioid Crisis: Kids as Young as 12 Hooked on Tramadol, ‘oxy’ and Other Painkillers

VIDEO – ANXIETY IS INTERNATIONAL – Feb. 27, 2023 - “Let’s say they have four friends, then suddenly we’re up to 20-30 young people taking them. And that’s just the ones we know about,” Ekmann said in an interview wit... Read More...

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Harvard Still Siding with the Sackler Family Murderers?

AIN’T SO SMART AFTER-ALL – March 1, 2023 - I spent some of the summer after my first year at Harvard Law School working on the case against Purdue Pharma, the company that infamously produced and marketed opioi... Read More...

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Purdue Pharma’s Sackler Selling $30M In Property Amid Opioid Crisis

VIDEO – HE CAN’T SELL THE PRISON HIS MIND LIVES IN – Feb. 24, 2023 - Sackler — a member of the billionaire family whose Purdue Pharma was accused of sparking the deadly drug epidemicby aggressively marketing th... Read More...

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How Oxford University Stuck With Sacklers as Opioid Deaths Led Others to Cut Ties

BLOOD MONEY = CRIME MONEY – Feb. 21, 2023 - The public outcry over the opioid crisis has provoked most arts and academic institutions previously patronised by the Sacklers to cut ties. The first wave o... Read More...

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Drug Combinations Known to Cause More Overdose Deaths

IT’S NOT COMPLICATED – Feb. 20, 2023 - “It presents sort of a problem because in an overdose situation, the Narcan isn’t going to work. It’s not an opiate, so Narcan is not going to reverse it,” Kalfas said. ... Read More...

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New Street Drug Threatening to Make California’s Overdose Crisis Worse

WORSE THAN WORSE – Feb. 18, 2023 - In San Francisco, four people who died between December and January were found to have low levels of xylazine in their systems, prompting the city’s Department of Public Healt... Read More...

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How AI Can Help Create Drugs To Treat Opioid Addiction

ARTIFICIALLY – Feb. 20, 2023 - Kappa-opioid receptors are known to mediate brain rewards. “If you’re addicted and you’re trying to quit, at some point you will get withdrawal symptoms, and those can be really h... Read More...

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DID ALEX MURDAUGH SPEND $50K A WEEK ON OPIOIDS?

VIDEO – CASH TALKS NOBODY WALKS – Feb. 22, 2023 - Murdaugh clearly had a problem. How bad was it? How much was he spending? Can someone even consume $50K worth of opioids in a week? Experts weigh in. Click@CourtT... Read More...

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Alex Murdaugh On Opioid Addiction and Hiring Man to Kill Him

VIDEO – IT’S COMPLICATED – Feb. 23, 2023 - Alex Murdaugh addressed his drug use, financial problems, and hiring a man to kill him. Click@WLTX ... Read More...

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Can More Arrests Solve Addiction Crisis?

VIDEO – HAS IT EVER? – Feb. 20, 2023 - Police to crack down on public drug use; are more arrests key to ending drug crisis? Click@YakTriNews ... Read More...

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Lisa Marie Presley Ingested Opioids, Lost 50 lbs. Before Death

VIDEO – DRUGS CAN KILL ANYONE’S DAUGHTER, EVEN A KING – Jan. 30, 2023 - Presley’s mother Priscilla, 77, recently contested “the authenticity and validity” of her daughter’s will. According to court documents... Read More...

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ENGLAND May Be On Brink of Becoming a ZOMBIELAND

ONE ZOMBIE AT A TIME – Feb. 14, 2023 - EU drug enforcement chiefs believe that Mexican cartels are seeking to expand their billion-dollar empire beyond American shores, putting Europe’s untapped market in their cross... Read More...

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FDA Panel Backs Making Narcan an Over The Counter Drug

OVERDOSE DRUG OVER THE COUNTER – Feb. 15, 2023 - The manufacturer, Emergent Biosolutions, said it would revise the packaging and labeling to address those concerns. The FDA will make a final decision on the dru... Read More...

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Pentagon Finally Stops Hiding Military Overdose Epidemic

PURPLE BROKEN HEARTS – Feb. 16, 2023 - The demographics of those hardest hit paralleled the opioid crisisin the civilian population, where people without college degrees have suffered the most from the scourge of opi... Read More...

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Simple Way To Reduce Overdose Deaths

GOOD NEWS? – Feb. 12, 2023 - As health economists, we separately participated in two recent studies that showed the payoffs from straightforward and inexpensive mailings. In one, researchers fol... Read More...

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ANGELS OVER TEXAS: Moms put dead children’s pics on billboards

FACING THE FACTS – Feb. 11, 2023 - Now, eight digital and four vinyl billboards have been set up across the state with the faces of the 25 people, who died after taking the drug. The signs also come with a caption th... Read More...

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I Took Oxy And Fentanyl For Years

ONE MAN POISON IS ANOTHER WOMAN’S LONGEVITY – Jan. 30, 2023 - This was pain that knifed and throbbed ― that consumed my life. Pain that would cause me to vomit repeatedly, long after my stomach was empty. Pain ... Read More...

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Daughter Dies From Fentanyl Overdose at Rehab Clinic

VIDEO – ANOTHER HUMAN TRAGEDY – Feb. 8, 2023 - That was on July 23, but just a few days later, Ryder received news that her daughter was found dead at the facility. “My life shattered,” Ryder said. “I... Read More...

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Administration Eliminated Barrier To Medication For Opioid Addiction

ANOTHER BIG PHARMA VICTORY – Feb. 8, 2023 - That requirement had been in place for two decades, and its reversal had been a priority for some activists because the policy discouraged doctors from prescribing th... Read More...

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Supreme Court Frees Pill Mill Operator

GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD – Feb. 3, 2023 - He was at the center of a Supreme Court ruling in January 2022 that raised the bar for what prosecutors must prove to secure convictions of doctors accused of fueling the U.... Read More...

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More Vending Machines With Narcan As Opioid Scene Gets Worse

ON EVERY CORNER? – Jan. 29, 2023 - There is, on average, a death a week from opioids in Vine Grove and surrounding Hardin county – not atypical for a region hard hit by the worst drug epidemic in US history. Ma... Read More...

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He Brewed Poppy Tea For His Chronic Pain That Led To His Opioid Addiction

SHOULD HAVE STUCK TO ESPRESSO – Feb. 2023 - The authors of the case report noted that the man did not show signs of a substance use disorder when he was taking prescribed opioids, but his use of poppy seed tea was wh... Read More...

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200 People Take the Fight Against Addiction Crisis to the Statehouse

MARCHING FOR RELIEF – Feb. 2, 2023 - More than 200 people gathered outside the Capitol for a rally to raise awareness about Oregon’s addiction crisis, which has affected thousands and included young and old and resid... Read More...

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Son Died From Fentanyl He Bought Through Snapchat

VIDEO – SNAPDEATH – Jan. 25, 2023 - On Aug. 15, 2020, Nicholas took his last breath after overdosing on a counterfeit pain pill made with fentanyl. “I was trying everything and anything I could to help him,” said... Read More...

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Doctor Who Distributed 40-60 Kilos of Oxycontin Laughs at 4 Month Home Sentence

VIDEO – NO PAIN, NO SHAME – Jan. 24, 2023 - The third and final defendant in a federal oxycodone case in Baltimore County was sentenced on Tuesday, almost five years after the investigation began. Dr. Norman Rosen, 8... Read More...

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Addiction Crisis Causing Spike In Endocarditis Cases

STOP BEFORE IT STOPS YOUR HEART – Jan. 17, 2023 - With drug deaths hovering at an all-time high and endocarditis cases among drug users up nearly tenfold in the last decade, physicians, researchers, and health ... Read More...

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‘Injecting Hope’ Watch Documentary

VIDEO – FILM MATTERS – Jan. 8, 2023 - From the mayor’s office to the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, ABC7 News meets those trying to solve the drug overdose crisis and those caught in addiction. We hit ... Read More...

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National Survey on Drug Use and Health Detailing Mental Illness and Substance Use Levels

YEP, MANY PEOPLE ARE MESSED UP – Jan. 4, 2023 - Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released the results of i... Read More...

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The New CDC Opioid Guidelines Abandon Pain Patients

VIDEO – WIN WIN LOSE LOSE – Jan. 5, 2023 - Six years later, with millions harmed, the CDC emphasizes that its guidelines should never be used for an “inflexible, rigid standard of care” and “patient abandonment.” Ho... Read More...

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