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Gov. Gavin Newsom to Spend $6.4 Billion on Treatment That Works, HOPEFULLY

AUDIO – ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE –   April 7, 2024 - We’ve told you about so many people who’ve died…

7 months ago

Amanda Seyfried Plays Police Officer Fighting Opioid Crisis

VIDEO – A WORK IN PROGRESS –   March 25, 2024 - Ms. Seyfried appeared ready ‘to serve and to…

8 months ago

Doctor Sentenced to Life for Overdose of Patients in ‘Pill Mill’ Scheme

AUDIO – GREEDY MURDERER IN PRISON FOR LIFE –   March 29, 2024 - This Week on True Crime Daily…

8 months ago

City Council Proposes Mandatory Treatment for Fentanyl/Opiate Overdoses

VIDEO – CAN YOU MAKE THEM QUIT? – March 25, 2024 - “Administration of Naloxone is indicative that the individual…

8 months ago

‘Safe, Simple, Cost-effective:’ Acupuncture as Opioid Alternative

VIDEO – THE RIGHT KIND OF NEEDLE –   March 21, 2024  -For Kayla Rath, a correctional officer in the…

8 months ago

Portugal Decreased Its Opioid Crises – America Increased Theirs

CHARITY vs. GREED – Feb. 24, 2024 - Municipal Police in Porto, Portugal regularly patrol areas used by drug consumers.…

9 months ago

Can Only Caucasians Get Opioid Addiction Drug?

Do-Re-Mi –   Feb. 28, 2024 - Americans addicted to opioids who need the anti-addiction med buprenorphine are far more…

9 months ago

Opioid Epidemic Continues to Crash Ashore, Surfing on Fentanyl and Meth

WILL IT NEVER STOP? – Feb. 21, 2024 - The United States is knee-deep in what some experts call the…

9 months ago

Mother Arrested After Harrowing Tale of Opiate Exposure and Negligence

FAMILY DISFUNCTION –   Feb. 15, 2024 - In the quiet of an ordinary day, a distressing revelation unfolded as…

9 months ago

How One Mom Overcame Opioids to Help Others

VIDEO – FROM HELL TO HEALER – Dec. 20, 2024 - When meeting Jodi Borrelli, it’s hard to believe that…

9 months ago

Treatment For Teens Inacce$$ible As Opioid Deaths Rise

VIDEO – WHY? –   Feb. 9, 2023 - “People are desperate,” said Pattie Vargas, a California mother who took…

9 months ago

Kroger Sued for Unsafe Opioid Prescriptions

ACCOMPLICES TO MURDER FOR MONEY – Feb. 13, 2024 - “For more than a decade, Kroger flooded Kentucky with an…

9 months ago

‘Just say no’ can kill kids.’

TEACH, DON’T PREACH – Feb. 3, 2024 - Melanie Ramos was only 15 years old when she died of a…

9 months ago

New Jersey Will Receive Nearly $9.5M from Opioid Settlement

AIN’T ENOUGH –   Feb. 2, 2024 - “When you visit a physician, you do not expect that the details…

9 months ago

First of-its-kind Opioid Center Coming to  Las Vegas Colorful

VIDEO – IT TAKES A VEGAS – Jan. 29, 2024 - “It will have 240 beds and an intake for…

9 months ago

As Opioid Deaths Soar, Biden Fills Up The Methadone Pitchers

RELIEF IS IN SIGHT – Feb. 2, 2024 - Now for the first time in more than 20 years, the…

9 months ago

French PR Agency to Pay $350 Million for its Role in Our Opioid Crisis

THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING – Feb. 2, 2024 - A subsidiary of the French advertising giant Publicis will pay…

9 months ago

Doctor Who Prescribed 500k Opioid Doses Gets Conviction Nullified

NOW WHAT? –   Feb. 2, 2024 - A Virginia doctor who prescribed more than 500,000 opioid doses in less…

9 months ago

Author Breaks Silence Surrounding Addiction

THIS MAN KNOWS –   Jan. 20, 2024 - Sam Quinones has been on the front line of reporting on…

10 months ago

New Synthetic Opioids Could Make Fentanyl Crisis Look Like ‘the good old days’

THE GOOD OLD DAYS WEREN’T – Jan. 23, 2024  - Chemists refer to this category of drugs as “nitazenes,” even…

10 months ago

Finding Recovery and Staying Safe from New England Journal of Medicine

VIDEO – HELPFUL INFORMATION –   Jan. 25, 2024 - In this Double Take video from the New England Journal…

10 months ago

Zombie Drug Rumored To Contain Human Bones

VIDEO – IMAGINE THAT – Jan. 17, 2024 - The drug, known as “kush,” causes users to walk around like…

10 months ago

Exhibit on Addiction At Harvard’s Sackler Museum, Yes, Those Sacklers!

AUDIO – IRONIC AND IDIOTIC –   Jan. 17, 2024 - As we left the second floor gallery, I looked…

10 months ago

San Francisco Blows Past Overdose Death Rate In 2023

VIDEO – LIFE ON THE STREETS –   Jan. 17, 2024 - San Francisco recorded 806 accidental drug overdoses in…

10 months ago

Consulting Company Fined $78 Million For Opioid Deaths

NO JAIL TIME? – Dec, 30, 2023 - Consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $78 million to…

10 months ago

Genetic Test Assesses Opiate Addiction Risk Using DNA

SCIENCE MAY ONE DAY DO SO... –   Dec. 21, 2023 - The test involves swabbing the cheek of a…

11 months ago

Man Fights to Overcome Opioid Addiction

VIDEO – IT CAN BE DONE – Dec. 12, 2023 - 35-year-old James Gotte said he’s looking forward to celebrating…

11 months ago

I Was Hooked on Opioids for Years

BUT NOT FOREVER –   Dec. 8, 2023 - Eventually, I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and…

11 months ago

REALITY: Opioids More Potent Than Fentanyl

EUPHORIA HAS A PRICE – Dec. 10, 2023 - Ross told her husband she’d gone out and used methamphetamine and…

11 months ago

Opioid Settlement Divides Victims

MONEY MATTERS – Dec. 3, 2023 - “If it gets blown up, nobody gets anything,” Carter, of Maynard, Mass., said…

11 months ago