NEW Nasal Spray Reverses Fentanyl Overdoses LIFESAVER –May 22, 2023 - The Food and Drug Administration endorsed Opvee, a nasal spray update of the drug nalmefene, which was first approved as an injection in the mid-1990s but later removed from the market due ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionOverdoseRecovery
DEA’s Failed to Punish Distributor Blamed in Opioid Crisis AMERICA LOVES ADDICTION –May 23, 2023 - The DEA did not respond to repeated questions from The Associated Press about its handling of the case against Morris & Dickson Co. or the involvement of a high-profile co... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeatured Articlesinterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
DEA’s Fentanyl Investigations VIDEO – NEVER ENDING –May 15, 2023 - “The days of needing to go in some dark alley to get drugs, now you can just … Young people especially are going online,” Forget said. “Knowing who your children hang out with in... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionMay 23 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Overdoses Slightly Increased Again, But Experts Hopeful HOPE NOT DOPE – May 17, 2023 - An estimated 109,680 overdose deaths occurred last year, according to numbers posted Wednesday by the CDC. That’s about 2% more than the 107,622 U.S. overdose deaths in 2021, but ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 23 2023OverdoseRecovery
A Searing Analysis of Racial Capitalism and Opioids IT IS BLACK & WHITE – May 11, 2023 - Whiteout is written by three uniquely qualified individuals whose research and writing overlap. As a result, the book includes an astonishing amount of material backing ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 23 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Walgreens Pays San Francisco $230M for Role in Opioid Epidemic HOW MUCH DID THEY PROFIT? – May 17, 2023 - Walgreens has agreed to pay San Francisco nearly $230 million to settle a lawsuit over its role in the city’s opioid crisis, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sai... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 23 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Inside the Emerging Xylazine Addiction Crisis TIME TO LEGALIZE HEROIN? – May 18, 2023 - Xylazine has taken a stronghold in Philadelphia, a city at the forefront of addiction crisis and care. A 2021 study conducted by the city’s public health department fou... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionMay 23 2023OverdoseRecoveryTrauma
‘Stimulants Are Back’ FAST AND FURIOUS X –May 14, 2023 - Nearly 2 percent of the U.S. population reported cocaine use in 2020, and the highly addictive substance was involved in nearly one in five overdose deaths, according to the Center... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMay 23 2023Overdose
New Bill to Use Mobile Pharmacies in Treating Opioid Addiction VIDEO – TAKING IT TO THE STREETS –May 5, 2023 - A new bill aims to address the deadly fentanyl crisis by making it easier to get treatment to those who need it.The bill allows local jurisdictions to use mobile p... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMay 16 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Canadian Opens Shop Selling Coke, MDMA and Heroin A WORTHY RADICAL IDEA! – May 10, 2023 - BC is a province with a population of around five million people, which, for context, is significantly less than London’s roughly nine million people. In BC, an average o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin Addictionlife expectancyMay 16 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
How Fentanyl Became So Deadly VIDEO – MONEY –May 5, 2023 - Fentanyl was not created to be used recreationally or bought and sold on the street.In the early 1960s the synthetic opioid was manufactured and approved by the FDA a few years... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMay 16 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Netflix Tackles Opioid Crisis with Painkiller THANK YOU NETFLIX – May 8, 2023 - Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s New Yorker article “The Family That Build an Empire of Pain,” and Barry Meier’s book, Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 16 2023netflixopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
St. Louis DEA Seizes 1,300,000 Fentanyl Pills VIDEO – PEOPLE MUST REALLY LOVE THIS DRUG –May 9, 2023 - ST. LOUIS — A year-long operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) put thousands of accused drug dealers behind bars.The DEA St. Louis Divisio... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMay 16 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
DEA May Limit Access to Buprenorphine REALLY? – May 2, 2023 - Since 2020, the federal government allowed telehealth providers to prescribe the medication without a medical visit to ensure people could still get it during lockdowns and reduce exposu... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 9 2023OverdoseRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Fentanyl Strikes Again: Dead Kennedys Drummer D.H. Peligro Died From OD PRINCE, TOM PETTY, MAC MILLER –MAY 2, 2023 - His bandmates first said they thought he died after accidentally falling and hitting his head, although, at the time, our law enforcement sources told us it was more myst... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin AddictionMay 9 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
How the FDA Helped Fuel the Opioid Epidemic WALL STRET JOURNAL: OPINION –May 2, 2023 - At an April Senate subcommittee hearing, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf blamed the pharmaceutical industry for a lack of nonaddictive nonopioid pai... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 9 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Drug Deaths Fell in Kentucky in 2022 SOME BEATS –April 21, 2023 - “That number is still far too high,” the governor said at his weekly news conference. “One is too many. But with the opioid epidemic, we see far, far too many.”Increased use of... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionMay 2 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecovery
Israel is the #1 Opioid Consumer Per Capita A SHONDA AND A SCANDAL –April 29 2023 - “The watershed was about 10 years ago, because before that doctors prescribed alternatives and there was less access to opioids. It wasn’t as easy for patients to get them as ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 2 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Sacklers Gave $19 Million to U.S. Agency that Helped Exacerbate Opioid Deaths BIG PHARMA WINDFALL – April 23, 2023 - Accepting millions of dollars from the Sackler family while advising the federal government on pain policy “would be considered a conflict of interest under almost any con... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 2 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Doctor’s Opioid Arrest Prompts Warning For Fentanyl Risk JUST ANOTHER DRUG DEALER –April 23, 2023 - According to court documents, Okafor distributed oxycodone to people outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose from his med... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionMay 2 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Workers Say Opioid Crisis Driving Push to Unionize Ben & Jerry’s Shop VIDEO – CAN DRUGS CAUSE SOCIALISM? –April 17, 2023 - “I think it would be nice to have better training for how to deal with situations that come up from the opioid epidemic and just the unhoused community around her... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 25 2023Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionExperience Strength and Hope Awardsopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Biden Promised Opioid Watchdog Billions, Then Feds Ghosted Him IT’S COMPLICATED –April 20, 2023 - No federal employee holds the title of opioid crisis accountability coordinator. The Office of National Drug Control Policy has not released public statements about the settlements... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 25 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Harvard Students Call on University to Dename Sackler Buildings at Art Museum’s ‘Die-In’ AUDIO – REAL EDUCATION – April 21, 2023 - More than 50 protesters called on Harvard to remove the Sackler name from all University sites and departments — including the Arthur M. Sackler Building and Arthur M. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 25 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Local Students Take Up Fight Against Fentanyl VIDEO – PROTECT YOURSELVES –April 16, 2023 - There are many illegal drugs sold on San Diego’s streets and online that contains fentanyl, which is causing minors to die.“The topic of the project is very rarely ta... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 25 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylinterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabteenagersTrauma
Mobilize Recovery Mobilizes iHeartMedia & Facebook to Support Ending Overdosing in America – Macklemore Performs Sept. 19, in D.C. IT’S A MOVEMENT – April 17, 2023 - Unlike past years when recovery advocacy groups and concerned individuals could attend summits and events by paying for admission, this year’s Mobilize Recovery will req... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 25 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Not Enough Facilities to Treat All the Kids Hooked on Opioids ONLY IN AMERICA –April 8, 2023 - We have to take into consideration their developmental age and the psychological development that’s happening in adolescence, which is very different from adults. Oftentimes... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 18 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehab
White House Declares ‘tranq’ an ‘Emerging Drug Threat’ VIDEO – HORRIFIC – April 13, 2023 - The increasingly combined mixture of xylazine, known on the street as “tranq,” with fentanyl has become most popular on the illicit drug market and has exacerbated the nationwide ... Read More...April 18 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionOverdoseRecoveryTrauma
All Opioid Pain Meds Get New Safety Warnings DON’T USE WITH ALCOHOL –April 13, 2023 - The FDA is making several updates to prescribing information for opioid pain medications to provide guidance on safe use, according to a Drug Safety Communication ... opens i... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 18 2023Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Doctor Sentenced For Writing ‘medically unnecessary’ Opioid Prescriptions VIDEO – NOT REALLY A HEALER –April 4, 2023 - A former Baton Rouge doctor has been sentenced after evidence at trial revealed he wrote “medically unnecessary” prescriptions for large amounts of opioids, authorities s... Read More...April 11 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Bold Efforts to Improve Access to Treatment for Opioid Addicts LET THEM IN –April 4, 2023 - Currently in the United States only three medications are indicated for the treatment of OUD. Buprenorphine is the only one that is routinely dispensed by community pharmacists with... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 11 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin