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Mailing At-Home Kits Improves Disposal Rates for Leftover Opioid Prescriptions

MAIL ORDER IN REVERSE –  May 24, 2022 - The researchers invited 657 patients to participate in their study, and…

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Veterinary Sedative Involved in Opioid Overdose Deaths

WHEN KETAMINE ISN’T STRONG ENOUGH –   May 24, 2022 -  A study published last month in the journal Drug…

2 years ago

108,000 Drug Deaths in 2021 Bear Out Prediction From Five Years Ago

DIDN’T TAKE A GENIUS –  May 25, 2022 - The special section—based around the Pitt team’s landmark research article in…

2 years ago

New Meth Addiction Treatment

VIDEO – BULLY or BULLSHIT? –   May 26, 2022 - Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare now has eight billboards around the…

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End Teen Drug Addiction

A BROTHER’S LAMENT –  May 18, 2022 - He was addicted to opioids and many other drugs at the time,…

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School Employee Arrested For Giving Fentanyl to Students wild

VIDEO – SHE’S A CRUMB BUM –  May 19, 2022 - Riverside police say their investigation started on Tuesday afternoon…

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The New York Times Finally Discovers Fentanyl and Death

WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? –   May 20, 2022 - Last year, fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — caused…

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LA Skid Row – Overdose ‘Epicenter’ with Methadone Miles Away

BRING THE MOUNTAIN TO MOHAMED –  May 11, 2022 - “The hardest part is to get there,” Elias said. “Soma…

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Inside Deadly Sales Juggernaut of the ‘Kingpin’ of Opioid Makers

SELLING, BUYING AND DYING –  May 10, 2022  - These doctors were among 239 medical professionals ranked by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals…

3 years ago

The Must-Have Gear for Going Out This Summer!

SAVE AN ADDICT –   May 5, 2022 - Godvin sprang into action. With the help of a network of…

3 years ago

‘They Were All Lawyered Up with Rudy Giuliani On Top’

THE CONSULTANT –  A LOOK BACK @AUGUST 5, 2018 - Two months after the news conference announcing the terms of…

3 years ago

Indigenous Americans See Five-Fold Increase in Fatal Overdoses in 20 Years

THE AMERICAN WAY? –  May 3, 2022 - The data showed deaths in which opioids were involved increased from 5.2…

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Can Monthly Injection Be the Key to Curbing Addiction?

IS IT COVERED BY INSURANCE? –  May 6, 2022 - Yet despite its promise, the use of injectable buprenorphine remains…

3 years ago

As Overdoses Soar, More States Decriminalize Fentanyl Testing Strips

THE TEST YOU WANT TO TAKE –   May 6, 2022 - “We hope all the states would come to…

3 years ago

‘We’re done with dead kids’: US Bars Handing out Free Fentanyl Tests

VIDEO – HARM REDUCTION ON TAP –  April 20, 2022 - FentCheck staples the strips from Canadian company BTNX to…

3 years ago

12 Medical Professionals Charged with Fueling Opioid Epidemic In Appalachia

VIDEO – GREED: AMERICAN STYLE –   May 5, 2022 - Over a dozen defendants across eight federal districts have…

3 years ago

Then Mommy Became Addicted To Oxycontin

REVERSE GENERATIONS –  May 7, 2022 - A week earlier, my phone buzzed as my husband and I waited on…

3 years ago

Overdoses Leading Cause of Pregnancy Deaths

WHAT WORLD ARE WE IN? –  April 30, 2022 - When one Baton Rouge woman’s daughter became pregnant while addicted…

3 years ago

Fake Adderall Kills Two On Campus

REAL DEATH –  May 6, 2022 - Ohio State University officials sounded the alarm Thursday over the circulation of “fake…

3 years ago

Walgreens Accused Of Fueling Opioid Addiction To Get More Customers

MONEY MONEY MONEY –   April 25, 2022 - The companies have denied the allegations, saying that they sold opioid…

3 years ago

How to Talk to Kids about Drugs

VIDEO – EARLY AND OFTEN –  April 28, 2022 - “You have to have a very direct conversation,” she said.…

3 years ago

CBD for Opioid Withdrawal?

TRY EVERYTHING –  April 28, 2022 - Medications for OUD treatment, such as methadone (Methadose), buprenorphine (Subutex), and buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone),…

3 years ago

Empire of Pain – Audiobook Review

LISTENING TO CRIMINALS –   April 29, 2022 - A remarkable piece of narrative reporting and a sweeping family saga,…

3 years ago

Opioid Crisis Leaves Families Shattered and Grieving

LET THE HEALING BEGIN –   April 19, 2022 - In 2010, there were about 21,000 overdoses involving opioids in…

3 years ago

Is the Opioid Crisis Masking Real Rates of Suicides?

WHO CAN TELL? –   April 21, 2022 – Suicides and drug overdoses can happen in clusters when people become…

3 years ago

San Francisco Gets $10 million opioid Settlement

NO ONE GOES TO PRISON –   April 20, 2022 - San Francisco sued Endo, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and…

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Battle To Keep People Alive as Fentanyl Ravages SF’s Tenderloin

STOPS YOUR HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO –  April 23, 2022 - This neighborhood and the adjoining South of Market (SoMa)…

3 years ago

Drug Kingpin Johnson & Johnson Pays $99 Million For Over-Marketing Highly Addictive Drugs

IS EL CHAPO A STOCKHOLDER? –   April 8, 2022 - West Virginia previously reached a $26 million settlement with…

3 years ago

Three Virginians Fighting Addiction Their Own Way

VIDEO – PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH –  April 14, 2022 - Virginia has been plagued by addiction since the late…

3 years ago

FDA Regulators Worked for the Sackler Family

IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB –  April 13, 2022 - Dr. Smith, who this year was promoted to senior partner,…

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