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My Addicted Son Might Still Be Alive If The Court Had Ordered Treatment

VIDEO – NO MARCHMAN ACT in TENNESSEE? – March 10, 2023 - Oh my God, what to do? I called 911 and reported the strange call. The operator said she would send an officer to my house. The Metro police car pulled up in ... Read More...

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DEA’s New Rules Deadly to Opioid Addicts says Ryan Hampton

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK – March 14, 2023 - I worked on Capitol Hill and in state houses across the country for years, before a seemingly benign OxyContin prescription for pain sent me into a decade-long tailspi... Read More...

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Doctor Who Battled Addiction Helps Peers Do Same

DOCTOR FEELGOOD – March 14, 2023 - In his early years as a primary care doctor in Boston, addiction devoured Grinspoon’s practice and his life. He snorted oxycodone in his office, wrote fraudulent prescriptions... Read More...

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Alcohol Is Biggest Killer

AND IT’S LEGAL – March 15, 2023 - Headlines in 2022 declared Oregon to be the “worst in the nation” for addiction. But many local experts in behavioral health say state rankings should be taken with a grain of salt. ... Read More...

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Opioids Primary Cause of Poisoning Deaths in Children

SAVE THE CHILDREN – March 13, 2023 - More than half of all reported poisonings affect children ages 5 and younger and have the highest rate of emergency department visits for unintentional drug-related poisonin... Read More...

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Texas Town Grapples With Shock and Anger at Student’s Deaths

VIDEO – AMERICAN NIGHTMARE – March 16, 2023 - Astudillo planned to get her son medical attention the next day, but by morning he was dead. “It hurts you to see your son after he’s gone and ask yourself, Why ... Read More...

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1 Million Fentanyl Pills Seized

SIMPLE SUPPLY & DEMAND – March 10, 2023 - The buyers, however, were a confidential informant who has worked with the government since 2014 and an undercover Hawthorne police officer working as part of the federal... Read More...

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On the Trail of Fentanyl King

BLIND AMBITION – March 8, 2023 - An order came in from a young marine in North Carolina. He wanted Oxy. Allawi went about fulfilling the order, choosing from among the bags of powders and chemicals strewn about... Read More...

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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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Overdose Prevention Sites Move Toward Expansion Remain in Legal Limbo

AUDIO – SAVE LIVES NOW – March 4, 2023 - They discussed how City Hall can support overdose prevention centers, which provide supervised injection of illicit substances along with a range of other services. Two of th... Read More...

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Rise in Fentanyl Deaths Justifies Use of Military Force?

AN EYE FOR A EYE – March 9, 2023 - Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes is counting on recently introduced federal legislation to help prevent narcotics from flowing into OC. In a March 6 letter he sent to the a... Read More...

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Former San Francisco Meth Lord Speaks Out About Drug Addiction in Gay Community

FOR THE LOVE OF SEX – March 6, 2023 - Despite efforts to raise awareness, the problem has only appeared to grow worse as meth-related overdose rates continue to increase in the U.S. According to data collected by ... Read More...

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Mom Almost Died From Drugs After ‘worst day of life’

ALMOST IS KEY – Feb. 23, 2023 - Speaking to the Daily Star, Natalee, who was born in Puerto Rico to military parents, revealed how her older sister Niki, was her “best friend” growing up and that they “did ever... 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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10-Year-Old Influencer Everleigh Rose’s Dad Died of Accidental Fentanyl Overdose

MOURNING EVERY MORNING – Feb. 22, 2023 - Our hearts are incredibly heavy as we process the loss of Everleigh’s dad, Tommy. He loved Everleigh immensely,’ Savannah wrote back in September, alongside a touching photo o... 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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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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Thoughts About the Overdose Conundrum

WHEN IS IT NOT SUICIDE? – Feb. 22, 2023 - The more lenient the psychiatrist is when his patient is late, the later the patient comes, leading to an inevitable situation where the psychiatrist cannot see the pat... Read More...

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Philadelphia’s Zombie Drug ‘tranq’ Already in NYC

VIDEO – WATCH IN WONDER – FEB, 22, 2023 - PIX11 News drove to Philadelphia to get a first-hand look at the effects of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that is turning fentanyl addicts into “zombies.” Click@YouTub... 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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