Overdose

Pain Pills Flood Mail Facility

BEWARE OF LICKING ENVELOPES – July 21, 2021 - U.S. Customs and Border Protections (CBP) officers at the Chicago International Mail…

3 years ago

Former Baltimore Raven running back Lorenzo Taliaferro dead at 28

TOO SOON, TOO YOUNG, TOO SAD –    July 20, 2021 - Taliaferro, 28, died in December of what was…

3 years ago

Ed Buck’s defense accused of ‘despicable victim shaming’ in fatal meth overdose trial

EVIL INCARNATE –  July 23, 2021 - “Every time he stuck that needle into someone else’s arm, he was playing…

3 years ago

How the Sacklers Got Away With Murder?

MILLIONAIRE KILLERS GO FREE –  July 14, 2021 - Though they are widely reviled for profiting from a public health…

3 years ago

How Business Can End the Addiction Epidemic by Leslie Glass

HONEST, OPENMINDED AND WORKING – July 13, 2021 - The extraordinary effort to combat and end the COVID pandemic included a…

3 years ago

Adolescent misuse of prescription opioids may lead to heroin use in adulthood

LOCKS ON EVERY MEDICINE CABINET? –    July 13, 2021 - Opioid misuse and overdoses are a major problem in…

3 years ago

How ERs Fail Patients With Addiction

LISTEN – THE FAMILY AFTERWARD –    July 15, 2021 - On March 11, 2020, though, Suzanne grew worried. Jameson,…

3 years ago

Biden picks West Virginia’s Rahul Gupta as drug czar

’CAUSE W. VIRGINIA WAS A BEACON OF PREVENTION –    July 13, 2021 - The Biden administration is tapping Rahul…

3 years ago

Deaths Related To Alcohol And Drugs Are SOARING In State Prisons

LISTEN – EVERYONE IS ON DEATH ROW –    July 17, 2021 - JENKINS: Essentially treating one illicit drug with…

3 years ago

What’s the Difference Between Opioids and Opiates?

PRICE? –    2021 - Although related, opioids and opiates are not exactly the same thing. They are part of…

3 years ago

Drug Deaths Increase Sharply Among Black Americans

LISTEN – COLOR BLIND CONSPIRACY? –  July 12, 2021 - Craig Elazer struggled all his life with anxiety, a feeling…

3 years ago

Tarantula bites Big Pharma. Venom for sale!

WATCH OUT – CRAWLING OUT OF PAIN –  July 14, 2021 - “For us, it’s cool — really cool —…

3 years ago

Free Heroin, Cocaine and Meth Given Away in Front of Police Station

SAFER THAN CIGARETTES? –  July 16, 2021 - “In British Columbia, we have a long-standing overdose crisis,” Nyx told Newsweek.…

3 years ago

Drug Overdoses Killed 93,000 Americans In 2020, Up By 30%

DEATH, DEATH AND MORE DEATH –  July 14, 2021 - Ten states are predicted to have at least a 40%…

3 years ago

‘Pill Mill’ doctor pleads guilty, will forfeit 9 luxury cars and $400K cash

TIME TO TAKE THE BUS –    July 2, 2021 - Court records said Dr. Abraham would even increase the…

4 years ago

St. Francois center closure could put patients at risk

WATCH – METHADONE OR DIE! –  July 9, 2021 - “It was working. It was working great, I was able…

4 years ago

Woman’s book on addiction brings hope from pain

HEALING AND HOPE –  July 6, 2021 - “Last year I thought of all these moms that I know and…

4 years ago

Purdue Settlement Will Unlock Sackler ‘Secrets’

MASS MURDERERS ON PARADE –  July 8, 2021 -  Roger Brunelle Jr, president of the International Union of painters and…

4 years ago

Opioid addiction apps sharing sensitive data with third parties

NOT BETTER APP –    July 7, 2021 - Despite the vast reach and sensitive nature of these services, the…

4 years ago

Opioid crisis is the setting of thriller ‘Crisis,’ sober look at the drug epidemic

ONE DREADFUL FILM –  June 30, 2021 - Jarecki’s densely plotted thriller could just as well have been titled “Déjà…

4 years ago

Rhode Island first state to pilot drug injection sites

SAFETY FIRST –  July 1, 2021 - “If we are truly going to rein in the drug overdose epidemic, we…

4 years ago

Paramedics answer more than 70 non-fatal overdoses in two days

LIVING ON THE EDGE, OR DYING, WHATEVER –    July 2, 2021 - On average, emergency responders receive roughly 14…

4 years ago

Eleven overdose at Florida Behavioral Health center

IS NO PLACE SAFE? July 3, 2021 - Eleven people, two adults and nine juveniles, were taken to a hospital Sunday…

4 years ago

My Sister Died of an Overdose. Defunding Police Might Have Saved Her

FAMILY MEMBERS DIE TOO –  June 28, 2021 - Fatal overdoses like Keeley’s have increased steeply in recent years. During…

4 years ago

500 people in South Carolina overdosed on counterfeit Xanax

WATCH – FAKE PILLS = REAL DEATH –  June 30, 2021 - The agency says many of the deaths are…

4 years ago

Does more Narcan equal more opioid deaths?

WATCH – LIVED TO TELL –    June 23 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Roxxanne Newman is in a good…

4 years ago

Ending Racist Sentencing Disparity

IT’S ALL IN CRACK AND WHITE –  June 24, 2021 - The Biden administration has again voiced support for ending…

4 years ago

Comfortably Numb: China has an opium problem and the Sackler Oxycontin Cartel American family is to blame.

DEATH FOR SALE –  June 24, 2021 - Patrick Radden Keefe, who provides the quote above, explains the whole epic…

4 years ago

The Opioid Addiction Crisis and Racism: A Long, Troubled History

HISTORY CONTINUES –  June 23, 2021 -  The alarming parallels between the 19th- and 21st-century opioid crises in the United…

4 years ago

Walmart’s top executive to be deposed in Opioid scheme

ROTTEN AT THE TOP –    June 24, 2021 - During that time, Special Master Cohen said, “The Delaware litigation…

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