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Kratom Dependency Grows

WATCH – SOLD IN VENDING MACHINES – May 12, 2021 - Until the pandemic struck in March 2020, Rohr and her Kalamazoo-based staff rarely encountered Kratom, or it was mistaken for an opiate in a patient entering re... Read More...

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Who’s to blame for America’s opioid epidemic?

FOLLOW THE MONEY – May 5, 2021 - It was an American epidemic long before Covid-19. Opioid addiction and overdoses have scythed through the US heartland, often compounding misery in regions already ravaged... Read More...

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Man in recovery saves someone overdosing

WATCH – PAYING IT FORWARD – April 30, 2021 - “Every minute that we could be there that quick, we were that close, it was amazing. A saved life got to save a life,” said Theo Shackleford, who also works at ARC. ... Read More...

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Worsening deadly opioid epidemic must not be forgotten

EVERYONE’S OPINION? – May 2, 2021 - THE UNITED STATES is still grappling with the deadly coronavirus pandemic, yet, sadly, that is far from the nation’s only public health crisis. The opioid addiction epidemic ... Read More...

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“I Can’t Abandon My Name”: The Sacklers And Me

THE WHOLE FAMILY ISN’T TOXIC – May 4, 2021 - I had never before heard of the novel, called The Company You Keep, and I was quite sure the author, Neil Gordon, was a complete stranger to me. I’m happy to r... Read More...

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CA Passes Bill For Supervised Sites For Drug Users

CALIFORNIA NODDING – April 22, 2021 - Supervised injection sites have emerged around the world in recent years, part of a movement to rethink treatment for people addicted to powerful opioids — including heroin... Read More...

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Mom’s anguish after daughter, 12, died of suspected OD

WATCH – FOREVER GRIEF – May 6, 2021 - She said she has struggled with her own mental health and addiction issues and said more resources need to be made available to help both adults and kids struggling with su... Read More...

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Church-Going Couple Accused of Operating Drug Lab

WATCH – WHAT WAS THEIR FAVORITE TV SHOW? – May 6, 2021 - Craig Johnson, chief deputy sheriff at the Wise County Sheriff’s Office, told Newsweek in a Thursday email that the investigation is “on-going” and that ... Read More...

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The Sacklers Launched OxyContin. Everyone Knows It!

GREED KILLS, GREED KILLED – May 6, 2021 - Before Richard Sackler—father of David Sackler, who’s married to Joss—became president of Purdue Pharma, he played a central role in the company’s launch of OxyContin i... Read More...

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They used drugs as children then turned their lives around. Here’s how!

SOBRIETY IS A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND – May 2, 2021- But when she was 26 years old, a phone call with her father made her realize the “living hell” she had put her family through. That’s when she decided to re... Read More...

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2020: Worst year for drug overdoses in recorded history

WATCH – AMERICAN DEATH MARCH – April 26, 2021 - “I really don’t see our workload going down significantly for 2021,” added Dr. Jim Caruso, the chief medical examiner in Denver. “The first couple of months of 20... Read More...

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New Guidelines For Opioid Treatment Are A ‘Big Deal’

LISTEN – LET THE HEALING BEGIN – April 27, 2021 - “Some physicians actually don’t want to prescribe it because they don’t want to go to the extra burden of doing the training,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of... Read More...

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Landmark opioid crisis trial starts next week at ground zero

INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY AS SIN – May 1, 2021 - Why is the trial in West Virginia? A year and a half later, Cabell County, which filed its lawsuit in 2017, will argue that the drug distributors failed to re... Read More...

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A Survivor’s Perspective on San Francisco’s Drug Crisis

WHAT CAN BE DONE? – April 26, 2021 - Mr. Wolf, whose mother immigrated from Mexico, spoke to the dealers in Spanish and helped them wire money to their families in Honduras. They showed him pictures of the home... Read More...

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The United States Of Meth

SPEEDING TOWARDS OUR DEMISE – April 27, 2021 - As the pills piled up, Jon DeLena was shaken. He’d lived through a spike in cocaine trafficking in Miami in the early 2000s and the dramatic rise in heroin and fen... Read More...

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A Flawed System

WHO CAN WE TRUST? – April 29, 2021 - What his family didn’t know was that Addiction Specialists Inc., often known as ASI, had a history of violating state rules. In a later federal investigation into the facili... Read More...

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US lifts barriers to prescribing Suboxone

GIVE PILLS A CHANCE – April 27, 2020 - Because of how opioids act on the brain, people dependent on them get sick if they stop using. Withdrawal can feel like a bad flu with cramping, sweating, anxiety and slee... Read More...

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Mother about son’s fatal fentanyl overdose to reignite opioid conversation

WATCH – SO MANY GONE – April 20, 2021 - Debbie had walked downstairs in her home that morning to where Matthew and his young son were sleeping. “I found Matthew collapsed on the floor and I knew he was gone,... Read More...

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‘Saying YES to Drug Addiction, One Drug Den at a Time’

CALIFORNIA DREAMING – April 22, 2021 - The State Senate Republicans noted they are fighting to combat the deadly fentanyl epidemic, while their Senate Democrat colleagues appear to be normalizing substance abus... Read More...

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Is fear of opioids leaving patients in pain?

DOCTOR’S DILEMMA – April 23, 2021 - We heard from someone who has reached the end of his rope: “In June, I will have suffered from severe chronic pain for 28 years. I will be dead before then. My doctor has cut me b... Read More...

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West Virginia overdose deaths set new record amid pandemic

WHEN WILL IT STOP? – April 22, 2021 - Data analysis published in the American Journal of Public Health, which analyzed overdose deaths across 31 states, found West Virginia’s increase during that month to be si... Read More...

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Canada’s overdose and illicit drug crisis

WATCH – HARM REDUCTION ARGUMENT – April 15, 2021 - Five years after B.C. declared the overdose and illicit drug crisis a public health emergency, a panel of community advocates discuss how far Canada has come i... Read More...

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“Fentanyl Is Here:” Vegas Suffers 200% Surge In Overdose Deaths

LEAVING LAS VEGAS FOREVER – April 17, 2021 - “Clark County fentanyl deaths are on par with the “alarming” 30% increase in total overdose deaths in 2020, when 768 people succumbed to them, compared with 591 in 2... Read More...

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How DMX Found God

MAY HIS MEMORY BE A BLESSING – April 13, 2021 - so he found himself “possessed by the darker side,” bound to a cycle of drug dependence and insufficient rehab. Fame changed his life, but not in many of the ways... Read More...

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Ibogaine: Promising Treatment for Addiction

IF IT REALLY WORKS, WHY NOT? – April 5, 2021 - Once dismissed as a fringe, counterculture vice, psychedelics are rapidly approaching acceptance in mainstream medicine. These drugs uniquely change the brain, and a pe... Read More...

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Stimulus money fueling addictions

WATCH – BAD MONEY AFTER GOOD – April 1, 2021 - She said the correlation became clearer when checks rolled out. Some people relapsed or would stop showing up for treatment. “Engagement specialists, recovery c... Read More...

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Overdose Deaths Spiked To 88,000 During Covid-19

LISTEN – HUNGRY GHOSTS – April 1, 2021 - The White House plan drew praise from Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., who represents one of the states hit hardest by the opioid epidemic. “I have long pushed to expand ... Read More...

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George Floyd could change how we talk about drug abuse and Black Americans

WATCH – LONG OVERDUE CONVERSATION – April 3, 2021 - As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the United States, Floyd, the father of two young daughters, started using again: he lost his job as a nightclub security gu... Read More...

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‘Jackass’ team ‘tortured’ me with 90-day rehab stint’ says: Bam Margera

WATCH – 18 DIFFERENT JAGGED LITTLE PILLS – April 2, 2021 - “What’s the point of a $5 million contract that I have to walk on eggshells and jump through your hoops — which is already impossible — to obey if I’m dead?... Read More...

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ADDICTION TREATMENT: DISASTER LOOMING

SYSTEMATIC BREAKDOWN – March 24, 2021 - In a spectacular display of stigma related to the disease of addiction and its treatment, there has not been a rush to expand capacity, address decades of old workforce s... Read More...

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