Intercepted Phone Calls by DEA Glimpse Into $24M Oxycodone Sales Ring THE WORLD IS WEARING A WIRE – Oct. 14, 2022 - On Oct. 3, DEA agents interviewed Ratanaprasatporn at her home and asked the doctor to explain why she allegedly issued nine oxycodone prescriptions for a pa... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediacell phoneDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOct 18 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecovery
Commentary: Harm Reduction and the Proletariat STOP THE MADNESS – Oct. 13, 2022 - Now opium derivatives, like heroin, are once again the actual opium of the people. People use heroin and fentanyl analogues to escape oppression temporarily. Black Pant... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionharm reductioninterventionOct 18 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’: Towering Film About the War Against the Sackler Family VIDEO – AMERICAN ROYALTY ABOVE THE LAW – Oct. 7, 2022 - Worse, the Sacklers are billionaires whose name adorns dozens of international art museums, including some that feature Goldin’s own work—a fact that moti... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
London Museum Drops Ties with Murderous Sackler Family BLOOD MONEY REJECTED – Oct. 1, 2022 - The Victoria and Albert Museum has bowed to growing pressure to rename key areas of its Kensington site, the Observer has learned, as it drops controversial ties with the S... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
High School Ball Player Dies After Suspected Fentanyl Overdose VIDEO – WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN – Oct. 7, 2022 - “It is with great sadness that I inform you that one of our 17-year-old students passed away last night,” David Hussey, the school’s executive director, said i... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinteenagersTrauma
6 Drugs That Are A Challenge To Overcome NOT TO MENTION DENIAL – Oct. 2022 - Prescription drugs can be very challenging to overcome. This is because they are legal and easy to obtain. They are also socially acceptable. This can make it difficult for p... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
Family, Friends Advocate to End Drug-Induced Homicides VIDEO – MORE WILL BE REVEALED – Oct. 6, 2022 - Rumley was a recovering drug addict who went to treatment three times and didn’t have any luck. He went to Rosecrance for his fourth treatment and finally complete... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionOct 11 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Las Vegas Police See 6 Deadly Overdoses in 1-1/2 Days VIDEO – LEAVING LAS VEGAS ... FOREVER – Sept 26, 2022 - Police said the people unknowingly took fentanyl. The department previously told FOX5 they are seeing many cases like that. “The party drugs, or Xanax ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylOct 4 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Doctors Rush to Escape Opioid Charges SAVING THE PILLMILLIONAIRES – Sept 19, 2022 - Previously, lower courts had not considered a prescriber’s intention. Until now, doctors on trial largely could not defend themselves by arguing they were acting in... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoverySept 27 2022
US: $1.5 Billion Naloxone Purchase to Fight Opioid Crisis DOES CASH EVER MAKE A DIFFERENCE? – Sept. 23, 2022 - The Biden administration is keen to show it is taking action on a worsening nationwide opioid crisis, which according to U.S. Centers for Disease Cont... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 27 2022
“Democracy Will Die” If We Don’t End Drug War! VIDEO – ONLY SOLUTION TO REDUCE OVERDOSE DEATHS – Sept. 21, 2022 - In his speech before the UN’s General Assembly, Petro said definitively that the “War on Drugs has failed,” according to a translation. He adde... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 27 2022War On Drugs
Battling Opioid Addiction Through Medicine and Faith VIDEO – YOU CAN’T FIGHT YOUR WAY OUT OF A PLASTIC BAGGIE – Sept. 19, 2022 - “It was all I cared about. All. Nothing else mattered, I worked in order to get drug money,” said Ashton Hunt explained. She... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryRehabSept 27 2022Trauma
Addicted In Film, Book Excerpt DRUGS ON FILM – Sept. 17, 2022 - Evil Incarnate: Purdue Pharma & Oxycontin Review of the Hulu Drama Series DopesickChapter Excerpted from the Upcoming BookADDICTED IN FILMMovies We Love About th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaSept 20 2022Trauma
New Street Drug is ‘As Deadly as Fentanyl’ ONLY IF YOU INGEST IT – Sept. 16, 2022 - Deaths linked to drugs are on the rise. In their report issued Sept. 16, Jessica Korona-Bailey and colleagues said that “four times as many nitazene-involved over... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 20 2022Trauma
Dope Crisis Strikes Nerve with NY OASAS Commissioner VIDEO – CATASTROPHE IN ACTION – Sept. 13, 2022 - The commissioner said this is a scene playing out all over New York and across the country. She believes it is going to take every family in every neighborhood, ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 20 2022
The Deadly Financial Aspect of Addiction VIDEO – IT’S ALL ABOUT LOSSES – Sept. 8, 2022 - After losing her husband to accidental overdose, Cheryl shares his journey through active addiction, road to recovery and his final battle lost to overdose. By ex... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewlife expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 13 2022
Heroin Overdoses Down in D.C. The Sad Reason? Fentanyl. THE CAPITAL OF DEATH – Sept. 8, 2022 - Now heroin, synonymous with illicit drug use in Mid-Atlantic cities since the 1960s, is close to vanishing from the streets of the nation’s capital. D.C.’s lates... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin Addictioninterventionlife expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 13 2022Trauma
Activist Talks About Loss and Fighting Big Pharma with ‘Dopesick’ author MORE WORK TO BE DONE – Aug. 29, 2022 - Tim Nolan, a nurse practitioner who treats the forgotten and forsaken in rural North Carolina with medical supplies pulled from the back of his Prius. Rev. Michelle... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoverySept 6 2022Trauma
Tyreek Lewis, 35, Died For Seeking Pain Relief — And Unknowingly Bought a Fentanyl Pill THE INVISIBLE SNIPPER KILLS AGAIN – Sept. 3, 2022 - Desperate for relief, Lewis bought two. But the pills Lewis had purchased were illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. They had been pressed ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyllife expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 6 2022Trauma
Artists MUST Expose Corruption, Urges Opioid Crisis Film Director CAN A FILM SAVE LIVES? – Sept, 3, 2022 - The maker of lauded films including Risk (about Wikileaks) and Citizenfour(about Edward Snowden) was premiering All the Beauty and the Bloodshed in competition at the Ve... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryRecovery AdvocateSept 6 2022Trauma
Drug Czar Says Stigma Among Doctors Culprit In Addiction Crisis NOT AN ADDICT? – Sept. 2, 2022 - As the first doctor to hold the position, he says he will embrace new strategies, including harm reduction tactics, which aim to reduce drug users’ risk of overdose, death, and ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabSept 6 2022Trauma
New Hampshire Gets $40.5 Million From Opioid Moguls Johnson & Johnson VIDEO – NOT The Brothers Karamazov – Sept. 1, 2022 - “As part of our continued efforts to battle the opioid epidemic, New Hampshire is a leader in ensuring that the companies who played a role in perpetuating t... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinSept 6 2022
Sam Quinones Is Wrong Says Zackary Siege WHO KNOWS? – Sept. 4, 2022 - The other day I got a concerned ping. Someone alerted me that Sam Quinones, bestselling author of Dreamland and more recently The Least of Us, two books abo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 6 2022
Out-of-Pocket Cost of Naloxone Soars for Uninsured Individuals PROFITS ON LIFE AND DEATH – Aug. 26. 2022 - While the cost of naloxone has declined for individuals with health insurance, the cost of the opioid overdose reversal medication has sharply risen for uninsured ind... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 6 2022Trauma
Fentanyl Deaths Leads Morgues to Run Out of Space VIDEO – NO END IN SIGHT – Aug. 24, 2022 - Chicago-area resident Karen Zander lost her 22-year-old son John Allen to fentanyl poisoning. Zander said in 2016, Allen made the choice to snort cocaine that his best ... Read More...Aug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Are Physicians at Higher Risk for Substance Abuse? PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF – Aug. 25, 2022 - It incentivizes physicians hiding their addiction and avoiding unwanted attention that comes from seeking help. Most individuals will not ask for help if they rec... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehab
Law Enforcement Officials Warn About Spread of “Rainbow Fentanyl” THE COLOR OF MONEY – Aug. 22, 2022 - Experts have differing theories as to why illicit drug manufacturers are producing brightly colored fentanyl. Some officials, including Michael W. Humphries, area dir... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Every ER Doctor Will See An Overdose Every Shift AUDIO – HOW MANY GET TO GO HOME? – Aug. 9, 2022 - “This is an expected type of patient presentation. Just like a heart attack or stroke or patient with sepsis, this is something that every emergency doctor work... Read More...Aug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Fined Only $650,000,000 For Ohio’s Opioids Horror Show ANOTHER DROP IN THE BUCKET – August 17, 2022 - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered three of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains — CVS, Walgreens and Walmart — to pay $650.5 million to two Ohio counties, rulin... Read More...Aug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
How Photographers Help Fight Addiction in Philly VIDEO – STARING IN THE FACE OF HOPELESSNESS – Aug. 16, 2022 - “It just doesn’t feel comfortable for me to continue to drive through this area, walk through this area, catch the train, pass this are... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAug 23 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental Healthmethopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma