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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…

7 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…

7 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…

7 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…

7 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…

7 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…

7 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…

8 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…

8 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…

8 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…

8 months ago

Author Breaks Silence Surrounding Addiction

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

8 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…

8 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…

8 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…

8 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…

8 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…

8 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 months ago

Opioid Settlement Divides Victims

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

9 months ago

Physician Sentenced in $1.2M Opioid Scheme

MAKING A LIVING KILLING –   Dec. 7, 2023 - Texas-based pain management specialist Oscar Lightner, MD, has been sentenced…

9 months ago

Melissa Etheridge’s son died from opioids: ‘He made his choices’

OR DID HE? –   Nov. 29, 2023 - Melissa Etheridge has opened up about coping with her son’s death. …

10 months ago

The Brain on Opioids

WILLIAM BURROUGHS – Nov. 19, 2023 - In recent years, the opioid epidemic has surged to alarming proportions, casting a…

10 months ago

Once Homeless Addict, Mayor Takes On Drug Crises

HE CAN RELATE – Nov. 25, 2023 -  “For 17 years, I was an absolutely horrible individual,” said Carter, the…

10 months ago

Reporting on Addiction Accurately

VIDEO – AND SOBERLY? – Nov. 27, 2023 - The organization Reporting on Addiction began as a response to what…

10 months ago

Evolving Overdose Crisis Shakes Previously Effective Treatments

METHADON’T WORK –   Nov. 21, 2023 - Neither Suboxone nor methadone is designed to treat addiction to xylazine or…

10 months ago

Gold Standard for Opioid Treatment Gets Cold Shoulder

NOTHING IS PERFECT – Nov. 14, 2023 - If Torrington could wave a magic wand, “I would enact true parity,…

10 months ago

Doctor Sentenced in $5,000,000 Pill Mill Thrill

MAKING A LIVING KILLING –   Nov. 16, 2023 - Rosenfield, Taylor, and their co-conspirators issued prescriptions for opioids, including…

10 months ago