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Dr. Husel Ordered Lethal Doses of Fentanyl

VIDEO – ANGEL OF MERCY OR ANGEL OF DEATH? –  Feb. 22, 2022 - In an email sent in late…

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Euphoria Holds Up Mirror to My Addiction Experience. This show quite literally saves me. By Natalie Alcala

IS HOLLYWOOD, AGAIN, GLAMORIZING DRUG ABUSE IN EUPHORIA? OR IS IT TRUTH TELLING? –   Feb 21, 2022 - TV…

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Snapchat Promises New Rules to Fight Drug Sales

IT’S ABOUT TIME –   Feb. 24, 2022 - Snapchat says it’s making changes to make it harder for kids…

3 years ago

Michael Keaton’s Emotional Speech After Winning His SAG Award for Dopesick

TEARFUL ACCEPTANCE –  Feb. 28, 2022 - Michael Keaton was teary-eyed as he accepted the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Award…

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4 U.S. Companies Will Pay $26 BILLION To Settle Claims For Opioid Crisis

AUDIO – WHEN? –  Feb. 25, 2022 - “This settlement represents real accountability,” said North Carolina state Attorney General Josh…

3 years ago

Seeing Addiction as Disease

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET –  Feb. 24, 2022 - “We’re in what is now becoming known as…

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Treating Drug Dealers Like Serial Killers by Chris Dale

EXAMINING THE CHARGES AGAINST 4 MEN CONNECTED TO ACTOR MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS’ DEATH –  Feb. 28, 2022 - Twenty years…

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CDC To Soften Opioid Prescription Guidelines

VIDEO – GOING BACKWARDS? –   Feb. 12, 2022 - Opioids can be an important tool in treating severe pain…

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US Could Ease Restrictions On Prescribing Opioids

WHAT A RELIEF, FOR SOME –  Feb. 15, 2022 - Drugmakers in the 1990s marketed new opioids as less addictive…

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Lifesaving Addiction Treatment Out of Reach for Many Americans

NOT ALL EQUAL –  Feb. 17, 2022 - These gaps in care put patients struggling with OUD at risk, and…

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Sackler Family Offers an Extra Billion Dollars to Avoid Prosecution

KILLERS –   Feb. 18, 2022 - Members of the billionaire Sackler family have sweetened their cash offer to settle…

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Middle-school Child Falls Prey to Fatal Fentanyl

VIDEO – AMERICAN NIGHTMARE –   Feb. 18, 2022 - But about a year and a half ago, the middle…

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Jails Finally Allowing Medical Care For Opioid Addiction

FINALLY SOME HUMANITY –   Feb. 18, 2022 - Sedgwick’s joins at least a few other Kansas jails that do…

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Teen Substance Abuse Trends

VIDEO – MORE PREVENTION FOR TEEN USE –   Feb. 8, 2022 - Scholz joined us to talk more about…

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Father Sues Pharmacy After Son Overdoses

J’accuse –   Feb. 7, 2022 -  Facts of the Case - Mr A was a 21-year-old university student who…

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“15 Years Ago I Was Waiting To Die”

FROM HEROIN TO HEROINE –  Feb. 2, 2022 - Parker is honest about what it took to recover, hard work,…

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New Strategy Needed To Tackle Opioids Crisis

REDUCE THE COST OF BURIALS –   Feb. 8, 2022 - The pandemic has contributed to a surge in substance…

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New Documentary on Overdose Epidemic

VIDEO – WATCH AND WEEP –   Feb. 10, 2022 - The overdose epidemic continues to ravage cities across America…

3 years ago

Opioid Deaths Cost U.S. Economy $1 Trillion A Year

AUDIO – $1,000,000,000,000 –  Feb. 8, 2022 - Opioid overdose deaths cost the U.S. economy $1 trillion a year, the…

3 years ago

‘Euphoria’ Finally Shows Dark Reality Addiction

VIDEO – NOT A NETWORK PROGRAM –  Feb. 8, 2022 - “You’re not a good person, Rue,” her mother Leslie…

3 years ago

David Magee’s Memoir “Dear William” Details Family’s Trauma & Loss

VIDEO – REBUILDING WITH TEARS –   Feb. 7, 2022 - Author David Magee has written numerous books about business…

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Doctor, 83, Accused Of Running $17-Million Opioid Pill Mill

HE WON’T BE IN JAIL FOR LONG –   Jan. 28, 2022 - Under the scheme, he only accepted cash…

3 years ago

What Makes People More Likely to Overdose on Opioids

FATE? DESTINY? LUCK? –  Jan. 28, 2022 - Health care providers can help reduce risk by taking certain precautions, Weiner…

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Sleepwalking Into Addiction

AWAKE AND SING –   Jan. 30, 2022 - In Greater Manchester, some felt their final hopes of eventually getting…

3 years ago

Mothers Protest SF Safe Injection Site

IT’S COMPLICATED –  Feb. 4, 2022 - Mothers Against Drug Deaths will protest outside the center at 8 a.m. Saturday…

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Native American Tribes Tentative $590 Mil. Opioids Settlement with J&J

NEW TRAIL OF TEARS –  Feb, 1, 2022 - Together with a deal struck last fall between the distributors and…

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Sacklers Cough Up $4 Billion More To Settle

CHUMP CHANGE –   Jan. 31, 2022 - The judge found the reorganization plan improperly shielded Sackler family members, who…

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Opioid Overdose Deaths to ‘grow exponentially’

HOW MANY MORE PLOTS? –  2/2/2022 - As long as the status quo stands, “We will continue to have these…

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They Made the Most of the Opioid Crisis

BOOK REVIEW –  Jan. 19, 2022 - (The book is based in part on a 2018 article Hughes wrote for…

3 years ago

Student’s Death Renews Calls to Stock Narcan in Schools

ALONG WITH EDUCATION? –  Jan. 25, 2022 - What they’re saying: “[National Association of School Nurses] supports safe and effective…

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