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‘Pill Mill’ doctor pleads guilty, will forfeit 9 luxury cars and $400K cash

TIME TO TAKE THE BUS – July 2, 2021 - Court records said Dr. Abraham would even increase the strength of the medicine despite medical paperwork categorizing one patient as “completely normal,” according ... Read More...

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Woman overcomes opioid addiction

ADDICTION IS NOT A DEATH SENTENCE – July 2, 2021 - That is when she entered the Bedford County Family Treatment Docket. “I call it my Saturday night epiphany,” Sweigar said. “This has got to change, because ... Read More...

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Purdue Settlement Will Unlock Sackler ‘Secrets’

MASS MURDERERS ON PARADE – July 8, 2021 - Roger Brunelle Jr, president of the International Union of painters and Allied Trades, District Council 35 in Boston, lost his 26 year old son Brent Hastings to a... Read More...

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Opioid addiction apps sharing sensitive data with third parties

NOT BETTER APP – July 7, 2021 - Despite the vast reach and sensitive nature of these services, the research found that the majority of the apps accessed unique identifiers about the user’s device and, in some case... Read More...

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This rabbi was addicted to opioids

BACK FROM THE LAND OF NOD – June 29, 2021 - “In some ways, this is very personal and I can totally respect somebody’s feeling like, ‘this is my business, it doesn’t affect what I do.’ I feel about it dif... Read More...

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Opioid crisis is the setting of thriller ‘Crisis,’ a sober look at the drug epidemic

ONE DREADFUL FILM – June 30, 2021 - Jarecki’s densely plotted thriller could just as well have been titled “Déjà vu,” given how tragically familiar it will probably feel to innumerable grieving families. Whi... Read More...

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Rhode Island first state to pilot drug injection sites

SAFETY FIRST – July 1, 2021 - “If we are truly going to rein in the drug overdose epidemic, we must recognize drug addiction as the health problem it is, rather than as merely a crime,” Sen. Josh Miller, who ch... Read More...

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Paramedics answer more than 70 non-fatal overdoses in two days

LIVING ON THE EDGE, OR DYING, WHATEVER – July 2, 2021 - On average, emergency responders receive roughly 14 calls per day. Despite the high number of drug-related calls, TPH said paramedics didn’t get... Read More...

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Comfortably Numb: China has an opium problem and the Sackler Oxycontin Cartel American family is to blame.

DEATH FOR SALE – June 24, 2021 - Patrick Radden Keefe, who provides the quote above, explains the whole epic shit storm of disgrace in his new book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. Ke... Read More...

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The Opioid Addiction Crisis and Racism: A Long, Troubled History

HISTORY CONTINUES – June 23, 2021 - The alarming parallels between the 19th- and 21st-century opioid crises in the United States are not limited to iatrogenesis. Both crises exhibit a history of troubling... Read More...

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Johnson & Johnson promises to end sale of opioids in $230 million settlement

CHUMP CHANGE – June 26, 2021 - “Johnson & Johnson helped fuel this fire, but today they’re committing to leaving the opioid business — not only in New York, but across the entire country,” she ... Read More...

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Opioids rip through U.S. workforce, deaths at record High

NODDING OFF AT THE OFFICE? WHO ME? – June 18, 2021 - Before the COVID-19 pandemic was the drug epidemic. Its relentless toll added a record 90,722 overdose deaths in the U.S. for the year through November 2020, a gr... Read More...

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Scottish universities urged to cut ties with Oxycontin’s Sackler family

IT WOULD BE HYPOCRITICAL NOT TO – May 30, 2021- They say it is hypocritical for the NHS in Scotland, where the drug death toll is Europe’s highest, to be supported by profits from a drug linked to the biggest addic... Read More...

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Addiction nightmare in photos

IT’S A FULL-TIME JOB – June 3, 2021 - ‘During the 19th century the neighbourhood of Kensington in north Philadelphia was a strong working-class district, a national leader of the textile industry and home to a diver... Read More...

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Parents March To Snapchat’s Headquarters

WATCH – AN APP THAT CAN KILL? – June 4, 2021 - She lost her son Alexander nearly a year ago and led the charge Friday in a march toward Snapchat’s headquarters in Santa Monica. But she was not alone. ... Read More...

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Murderous SACKLER family gets off scott free, and keeps their billions

LISTEN – WHO HAS THE GOLD, MAKES THE LAW – June 2, 2021 - In addition to contributing money from their personal fortunes, the Sacklers have agreed to give up control of Purdue Pharma. They will, however, retain... Read More...

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Overlooking a Major Culprit in the Opioid Crisis

THE BEST INTENTIONS...? – May 28, 2021 - And they did succeed in significantly shrinking the medical supply: since 2011, opioid prescribing has been cut by more than 60 percent. Unfortunately, however... Read More...

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Can We Make Opioids Less Addictive?

WATCH – ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE – May 16, 2021 - As it turned out, Sertürner got addicted while doing the research. And although he sounded the alarm, people didn’t listen. Within a couple of decades morphine w... Read More...

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‘Pillbillies,’ ‘Oxycotinville’: Emails from drug exec reveal mockery of Appalachians

PROFITS BEFORE PEOPLE – May 14, 2021 - Zimmerman’s testimony was part of a trial in which the municipalities accuse AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson Corp. of fueling the opioid epidemic by s... Read More...

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Who’s to blame for America’s opioid epidemic?

FOLLOW THE MONEY – May 5, 2021 - It was an American epidemic long before Covid-19. Opioid addiction and overdoses have scythed through the US heartland, often compounding misery in regions already ravaged... Read More...

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Worsening deadly opioid epidemic must not be forgotten

EVERYONE’S OPINION? – May 2, 2021 - THE UNITED STATES is still grappling with the deadly coronavirus pandemic, yet, sadly, that is far from the nation’s only public health crisis. The opioid addiction epidemic ... Read More...

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“I Can’t Abandon My Name”: The Sacklers And Me

THE WHOLE FAMILY ISN’T TOXIC – May 4, 2021 - I had never before heard of the novel, called The Company You Keep, and I was quite sure the author, Neil Gordon, was a complete stranger to me. I’m happy to r... Read More...

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24 States Fight To Block Sackler Family Bid For Immunity

LISTEN – MONEY BUYS FREEDOM – May 3, 2021 - But a growing group of public officials and activists is mounting a last-ditch effort to derail the plan, describing it in legal briefs as an unethical, and possibly ... Read More...

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CA Passes Bill For Supervised Sites For Drug Users

CALIFORNIA NODDING – April 22, 2021 - Supervised injection sites have emerged around the world in recent years, part of a movement to rethink treatment for people addicted to powerful opioids — including heroin... Read More...

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If your teenager was addicted to opioids, would you know?

TURNING HEARTACHE INTO HEALING – May 5, 2021 - I am an anesthesiologist who administers fentanyl every day to patients. I have also heartbreakingly lost both of my adult sons to accidental opioid overdoses. I c... Read More...

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The Sacklers Launched OxyContin. Everyone Knows It!

GREED KILLS, GREED KILLED – May 6, 2021 - Before Richard Sackler—father of David Sackler, who’s married to Joss—became president of Purdue Pharma, he played a central role in the company’s launch of OxyContin i... Read More...

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They used drugs as children then turned their lives around. Here’s how!

SOBRIETY IS A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND – May 2, 2021- But when she was 26 years old, a phone call with her father made her realize the “living hell” she had put her family through. That’s when she decided to re... Read More...

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Documentary: The Crime of the Century on HBO

WATCH – MODERN DAY SOPRANOS – Watch on May 10 - Exploring the origins, extent, and fallout of one of the most devastating public health tragedies of our time, with half a million deaths from overdoses this century a... Read More...

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Landmark opioid crisis trial starts next week at ground zero

INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY AS SIN – May 1, 2021 - Why is the trial in West Virginia? A year and a half later, Cabell County, which filed its lawsuit in 2017, will argue that the drug distributors failed to re... Read More...

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