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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 Branch (IMF) have seen a lot of prescription pills come through the mail - while some... Read More...

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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 crisis that has resulted in the death of half a million Americans, they have used their money and ... Read More...

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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 described as a heart attack. A spokesperson with the York County Sheriff’s Office said Taliaferro was transport... Read More...

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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 God,” she said. In closing arguments, prosecutors told jurors the evidence against Buck was overwhelming... Read More...

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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 the United States. One factor that may be leading to the rate of heroin dependence is the growing pop... Read More...

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How ERs Fail Patients With Addiction

LISTEN – THE FAMILY AFTERWARD – July 15, 2021 - On March 11, 2020, though, Suzanne grew worried. Jameson, 30 at the time, was slipping in and out of consciousness and saying he couldn’t move his hands. ... Read More...

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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 Gupta as its top drug policy official, charging the former West Virginia public health commission... Read More...

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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 another - not the way doctors would have treated him, but Olivares-Pelayo credits his friends with ... Read More...

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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 the same class of drugs, but there are some key differences in how they’re created and how they inte... Read More...

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Drug Deaths Increase Sharply Among Black Americans

LISTEN – COLOR BLIND CONSPIRACY? – July 12, 2021 - Craig Elazer struggled all his life with anxiety, a feeling of fear and nervousness. He was never treated for it. So, at a very young age, he started taking dr... Read More...

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Tarantula bites Big Pharma. Venom for sale!

WATCH OUT – CRAWLING OUT OF PAIN – July 14, 2021 - “For us, it’s cool — really cool — because we’re maybe a few people doing that,” Nguyen said. The team is poring over various computer-generated models with... Read More...

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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. “That crisis is actually caused by the failure of the regime of prohibition. A hundred... Read More...

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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% rise in drug overdose deaths from the previous 12-month span, according to the CDC: Vermont, Kentucky, South Carolin... Read More...

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‘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 strength of the medicine despite medical paperwork categorizing one patient as “completely normal,” according ... Read More...

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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 to go to work every day and not be sick. I was able to be productive, like, you know I had hope,” said another client... Read More...

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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 all the kids that died from addiction — I said let’s put a book together and we’ll dedicate a chapter to our kids,” she s... Read More...

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Purdue Settlement Will Unlock Sackler ‘Secrets’

MASS MURDERERS ON PARADE – July 8, 2021 - Roger Brunelle Jr, president of the International Union of painters and Allied Trades, District Council 35 in Boston, lost his 26 year old son Brent Hastings to a... Read More...

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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 research found that the majority of the apps accessed unique identifiers about the user’s device and, in some case... Read More...

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Opioid crisis is the setting of thriller ‘Crisis,’ a 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 vu,” given how tragically familiar it will probably feel to innumerable grieving families. Whi... Read More...

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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 must recognize drug addiction as the health problem it is, rather than as merely a crime,” Sen. Josh Miller, who ch... Read More...

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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 calls per day. Despite the high number of drug-related calls, TPH said paramedics didn’t get... Read More...

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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 following overdoses at a behavioral center near Orlando, officials said. Orange County Fire Rescue said p... Read More...

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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 the year ending in November 2020, approximately 92,000 people died of a drug overdose in the... Read More...

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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 people ages 20 to 29. Most have gotten it from a family member or friend who, apparently, did not know what they were giving o... Read More...

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Does more Narcan equal more opioid deaths?

WATCH – LIVED TO TELL – June 23 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Roxxanne Newman is in a good place today but she didn’t know a few years ago that she’d ever make it here. “I woke up had been homeless for a w... Read More...

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Ending Racist Sentencing Disparity

IT’S ALL IN CRACK AND WHITE – June 24, 2021 - The Biden administration has again voiced support for ending a law that punishes possession or distribution of crack cocaine far more severely than for powder forms... Read More...

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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 shit storm of disgrace in his new book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. Ke... Read More...

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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 States are not limited to iatrogenesis. Both crises exhibit a history of troubling... Read More...

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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 was, of course, related to Walmart’s prescription policies, since shareholders sought (and obtain... Read More...

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