Overdose

This Addiction Treatment Works. Why Is It So Underused?

And it isn’t other drugs –  Oct. 27, 2020 - A number of clinical trials have found it highly effective…

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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…

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Juice WRLD’s Mom Recalls Her Son’s Addiction

Mourning never ends –   Oct. 27, 2020 - While the rapper, born Jarad Higgins, was a Billboard chart topper…

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

Scumbag Millionaires –   Oct. 23, 2020 - Walmart has been tightening its policies on filling opioid prescriptions, according to…

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Mitch Winehouse: Drug addiction is as indiscriminate as cancer

Father knows best? – Oct. 22, 2020 - MY RESPONSE to some of Amy’s ‘situations’ was that I would pretend…

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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,…

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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…

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Top 3 American Cities With Worst Drug Problems

No Prize Winners Here –   Oct. 17, 2020 -  Chicago, Illinois Chicago is known as The Windy City, but…

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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…

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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…

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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 &…

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Mother who lost son to overdose hopes to raise awareness about drug addiction

WATCH – Moms are the saddest –   Sep 27, 2020 - On Sunday, Coleman’s family held a birthday party…

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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…

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Rural moms recovering from addiction struggle to stay connected during pandemic

Dial Up? – Sep. 25, 2020 - With the pandemic putting programs like these on hiatus, patients like Megan, who…

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Timmy Solomon, guide through the Rehab Riviera, dies of overdose at 31

Makes ya wanna holler –   Sep. 26, 2020 - “You are out of your mind with worry,” she had…

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Family sells t-shirts to benefit overdose victim’s child

WATCH – The little ones left behind – Sep. 14, 2020 - Both men were into racing so the Schultz…

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Walk for Hope brings together those mourning deaths

Aren’t we all? –  Sep. 19, 2020 - As boys, Justin Reason had a knack for talking his younger brother,…

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Did the ‘Benadryl Challenge’ Prompt Warnings of Overdose Risk?

Tick Tock on American Teens –   Sep. 15, 2020 - In Summer 2020, the so-named “Benadryl Challenge” dared social…

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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…

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99 Purple Flags Posted For Overdose Awareness

Lives lost forever – Sept. 11, 2020 - Unwanted medications can sometimes end up in the wrong hands, which is…

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Overdoses rise in South Florida

Too many sunsets – Sept. 13, 2020 - Florida reported 5,621 overdose deaths, a 14% increase from January 2019 to…

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Navigating sobriety as teen: ‘They told me I was going to die’

WATCH – No one has to die – Sept. 4, 2020 - This time was different, though. When Leahy was…

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More than one person day died of an overdose in SF last year

American Horror Story –    Sep. 1, 2020 - According to a Department of Public Health report released Monday, 441…

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New Jersey Govenor signs ‘Overdose Awareness Day’ resolution

Hymn for the Dying –   Sept. 2, 2020 - “Every single life lost to an overdose is a tragedy…

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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…

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Overdose Awareness Vigil held Aug. 31

Community Caring –   August 29, 2020 - As he did at last year’s inaugural event, Father Neal Longe of…

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Denver Reports 83% Increase in Drug Deaths in First Half of Year

Dying for that Fentanyl Feeling – August 27, 2020 - Health officials are urging people to review the resources below and…

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A Bill to Decriminalize All Drugs

FINALLY! – August 20, 2020 - “The world we are proposing will significantly reduce the harm experienced by the most…

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Body Cam Shows Deputy Saving Man From Overdose

WATCH – Back for the Dead! –   August 21, 2020 - “Hear the snorting?” Deputy Steeves asks. “Pinpoint pupils,”…

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Deadly Overdose Spike During Pandemic

LISTEN – How much more horrible will it get? –   August 13, 2020 - Making matters worse is a…

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