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Botox Manufacturer Settles $200 Million in Opioid Case

THEY SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH FACES – Dec. 8, 2021- “For more than two decades, opioids have wreaked havoc on New Yorkers and Americans across the nation — causing pain, addiction and death,” Letitia James, New ... Read More...

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How Do We Stop Them Overdosing?

DECRIMINALIZE ALL DRUGS – Dec. 2, 2021 - While some drug users actively seek out fentanyl, many die without knowing that a different drug they had consumed — cocaine, for example — was laced. “It’s not that fe... Read More...

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Documentary Highlighting America’s Addiction Epidemic

WATCH – FILMS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE – Dec. 3, 2021 - “My part in particular,” Green said. “When you see it, you see young people really responding to these creative exercises and learning coping skills, protec... Read More...

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This Strip of Paper Can Save Lives

PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO DIE, THEY JUST WANT TO GET HIGH – Dec. 1, 2021 - “We’re at a greater risk for having unknown substances put into the drugs,” said Tanya, 45, who lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. She asked t... Read More...

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Drugs Nearly Destroyed This New Mexico Town. Meet the Survivors

THE LAND OF RE-ENCHANTMENT – Dec. 3, 2021 - My family has called Chimayó home for more than 300 years, and I spent most of my summers there with my grandmother in the 1960s and 1970s, surrounded by relatives w... Read More...

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New York Opens First Supervised Safe Injection Sites

NEW YORK ENLIGHTENED STATE OF MIND – Nov. 30, 2021 - Mayor Bill de Blasio began championing safe injection sites in 2018, citing their use and success in European and Canadian cities. The decision to officiall... Read More...

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CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Perpetuated Deadly Opioid Crisis

STOCKHOLDERS STILL HAPPY? – Nov. 23, 2021 - “The judgment today against Walmart, Walgreens and CVS represents the overdue reckoning for their complicity in creating a public nuisance,” the statement continued.... Read More...

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Should Doctors Be Embarrassed by TV’s ‘Dopesick’?

ONLY IF THEY HAVE FEELINGS – Nov. 26, 2021 - “I think doctors should watch this series because it carries important lessons for doctors about how pharmaceutical marketing can result in a public health catastro... Read More...

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Watching It All Fall Apart: Addiction Specialist Reacts

WATCH – NOTHING CHANGES IF NOTHING CHANGES – Nov. 19, 2021 - Nikki King, who designs addiction treatment programs, discusses the alarming number of drug overdoses in America during the pandemic. more@CNN ... Read More...

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A Rabbi Helped Me Understand the Stigma Addiction Carries

CARRY THAT WEIGHT – Nov. 18, 2021 - Waves of agony repeatedly knocked the breath out of me, as pressure built behind my eyes, producing visual auras that blurred my sight and made me nauseous. The pain was so ... Read More...

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Most Americans Don’t Know They’re Being Prescribed Opioids

OR THAT BREAD IS FULL OF SALT – Nov. 18, 2021 - Nearly half the people interviewed didn’t recognize tramadol as an opioid, but even more common opioids such as morphine or methadone were misidentified by at le... Read More...

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Biden’s Drug Czar Wants to Expand Use of MAT

NEXT STOP...CNN? – Nov. 18, 2021 - Methadone is a tightly controlled treatment for drug addiction, and patients must go to a clinic to receive the medication. That decades-old requirement was lifted during the coro... Read More...

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The Very First Time – Overdose Deaths Surpass 100,000

LISTEN – IT HAD TO BE 100,000 TO FINALLY GET INTO THE HEADLINES – Nov. 17, 2021 - This translates to an American perishing from a drug overdose death every five minutes. This is unacceptab... Read More...

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‘This Is Poison’

ENJOY – Nov. 20, 2021 - While the mounting deaths show the devastating consequence of fentanyl’s seep, it is less widely understood why the drug has mushroomed. And why so many illicit products — from fentanyl... Read More...

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The Joint Commission’s Complicity in the Opioid Crisis

J’ACCUSE! – by Christopher Dale Nov. 1, 2021 - A two-decade review shows decisions too poor – and Big Pharma influence too clear – to be explained away by sheer incompetence. This is a story 20 years ... Read More...

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100,000 Americans Died From Drug Overdoses

WINTER IN AMERICA – Nov. 17, 2021 - The vast majority of these deaths, about 70 percent, were among men between the ages of 25 and 54. And while the opioid crisis has been characterized as one primarily impact... Read More...

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“Dopesick” Takes On The Opioid Crisis

LISTEN – TIME TO GET hulu – Nov. 12, 2021 - The opioid epidemic has affected millions of people across the country—and more than 800,000 people are estimated to have died from an opioid overdose. At the root of thi... Read More...

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How Fentanyl and Meth Took Over America

I WISH IT WAS FICTION – Nov. 2, 2021 - In the 12 months ending in September 2020, that number hit an all-time high of 87,000 deaths by overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fen... Read More...

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Hulu’s Dopesick Puts a Lesbian Coal Miner at the Heart of Its Opioid Crisis Miniseries

WATCH AND WEEP – Nov. 10, 2021 - We have the government: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Randy Ramseyer (John Hoogenakker) and Rick Mountcastle (Peter Sarsgaard) and their new boss John Brownlee (Jake McDorman), all ... Read More...

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Revolutionary, ‘less harmful’ Pain Medication Therapy

WATCH – ADDICTION IS NOT MANDATORY – Nov. 12, 2021 - “I wanted no narcotics,” said Seminole County resident Andria Herr. She needed gallbladder surgery in March during the pandemic and she wanted non-narcot... Read More...

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Oklahoma Court Overturns $465 Million Opioid Judgment Against J&J

WE’RE INNOCENT – Nov. 10, 2021 - This is is a blow to the argument that companies that marketed, sold and distributed opioids created a public nuisance and should abate some of the damage drugs have caused in ... Read More...

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California Judge Delivers Drugmakers First Big Win in Opioid Litigation

EVERYONE ELSE LOSES – Nov. 2, 2021 - “Any adverse downstream consequences flowing from medically appropriate prescriptions cannot constitute an actionable public nuisance,” the ruling said. Los Angeles, Orange a... Read More...

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America’s Opioid Crisis Made Worse by Pandemic

WATCH – MUCH WORSE – Nov. 1, 2021 - “It became a lot harder for some people, for example, to get access to their methadone and things like that, although a lot of cities have taken great pains to try to make sure t... Read More...

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Dentists Still Giving Patients Addictive Painkillers

PAGING DR. SACKLER – Oct. 21, 2021 - In all, 84% of the 269 respondents said NSAID-acetaminophen combos are as effective as opioids or even more so, but 43% also said they regularly prescribe opioid medications. ... Read More...

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Overdose Deaths at a Historic High, FBI Targets Online Drug Markets

DEATH DELIVERED – Oct. 26, 2021 - These sites exist on the dark web or darknet, an area of the internet accessed through a specialized browser called Tor. Tor offers additional levels of privacy by obscuring t... Read More...

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Lawyers, Watch Out for These Five Signs of Addiction!

LISTEN – DON’T TAKE THE FIFTH – Oct. 26, 2021 - Plate Spinning As the head of a law firm, I had hundreds of plates spinning up in the air, maybe thousands. It was all way too much, especially on a dai... Read More...

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The New Wave of Killer Synthetic Drugs

BODIES ON THE SHORE OF DESPAIR – Oct. 28, 2021 - Quinones has been on this beat for years. In 2015′s “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” Quinones outlined an innovative heroin distribution sys... Read More...

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Sam Quinones Foretold the Opioid Crisis, Sounds Alarm on the Coming Tsunami of Deaths

LISTEN UP – HE KNOWS WHERE ALL THE BODIES ARE BURIED – Oct. 29, 2021 - When you finished “Dreamland,” did you think you would write another drug book? No, because I was still thinking old school, and I ... Read More...

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What’s New: From ‘Dopesick’ to ‘Hightown,’ Three Shows About the Opioid Crisis

WATCH – I LIKE TO WATCH – Oct. 13, 2021 - ‘Hightown’ When Jerry Bruckheimer is considering a new project, he asks himself if he’d watch it on TV or leave his home to see it in a theater. If the project checks ... Read More...

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