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Experts Proclaim: Stop Treating Back Pain With Opioids

THAT’S A GOOD IDEA – June 29, 2023 - Complex problems such as opioid use need smart solutions, and another study we recently conducted provides convincing data opioid prescribing can be successfully reduced. ... Read More...

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Opioid Crackdown Keeps Patients In Pain

VIDEO – SUFFERING IS NOT OPTIONAL – June 20, 2023 - According to T&T Drugs Pharmacist Tori Marshall, it’s getting more difficult for pharmacies to maintain a steady supply of pain medicine. She told 14 N... Read More...

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Not The Stereotypical Addict

NOT PREJUDICE – July 1, 2023 - You’ve had a stressful few months: major surgery led to lingering pain worsened by vague anxiety, the unsettled sense you aren’t quite back to normal. Your pain has subsided, but... Read More...

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WATCH: Merrick Garland Talks About Fentanyl Supply

VIDEO – SUPPLY & DEMAND! – June 23, 2023 - Garland said three other Chinese-based chemical manufacturers faced charges in the Eastern District of New York. “As alleged in the indictments, each of these compani... Read More...

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Dentist Faces Life in Prison for Prescribing Opioids

VIDEO – DR. FEEL DEAD – June 23, 2023 - He charged one of his patients $37,000 for dental procedures and prescribed the patient unnecessary amounts of narcotics, including morphine. That patient died days later due... Read More...

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Israeli Pharma Co. Pays $193M Opioid Settlement To Nevada

PETTY CASH – June 7, 2023 - “This settlement is the most recent example of my office’s work to hold accountable those who contributed to the opioid epidemic facing Nevadans,” said AG Ford. “I am proud of the w... Read More...

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Doctor Gets 12 Years for Bogus Prescriptions for Tens of Thousands of Pills

HOW MANY OVERDOSED? – June 9, 2023 - Dr. Dzung Ahn Pham, 61, was sentenced to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison on Friday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The Tustin-based physician also was fined ... Read More...

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$42M for Ibogaine Research Is Wrong For Fighting Opioid Addiction

WHY NOT TRY – May 31, 2023 - The $42 million being allocated for ibogaine research is coming from Kentucky’s Opioid Settlement Fund. This fund was developed following a 2022 nationwide agreement with major pha... Read More...

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How Opioids Changed What We Thought About Addiction

ESSAY OF NOTE – June 9, 2023 - This was particularly evident when opioid use disorder, which started roughly around 1999 and has continued to increase over the decades, was observed to affect mainly White peop... Read More...

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GOOD NEWS! 27 Community Groups in Philadelphia Receive Opioid Settlement Funds

PREVENTION PLEASE – June 8, 2023 - The awards are part of Philadelphia’s larger spending plan for its share of settlement money won in national lawsuits against major opioid manufacturers and distributors, which were... Read More...

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Where the Pills and the Money Kept On Flowing

FLORIDA – June 8, 2023 - The pill mills were run by Jeff and Chris George, twin brothers whose desire to get rich quick fueled the operation. The story of the Georges receives a dynamic retelling in “American Pain... Read More...

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Drug Use Kills 300 Americans a Day

VIDEO – BRILLIANT SACKLER TAKE-DOWN – June 8, 2023 - Inside the Sackler dynasty and the company, Purdue Pharma, that allegedly fuelled the US opioid epidemic. Purdue Pharma introduced the opioid painkiller OxyCont... Read More...

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Man Walks 24 Hours Handing Out Care Packages to Those Struggling With Addiction

VIDEO – GIVING BACK LOVE – May 28, 2023 - “Anything that can connect me to the guy that was sleeping behind the Walmart on Indian Town Road in Jupiter is something that I hang onto,” Smith said he wants to bring aw... Read More...

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‘I yelled, “I’m putting this up your nose”’: what it’s like to use Narcan

JUST SAY YES – May 30, 2023 - Naloxone, better known by the brand name Narcan, reverses overdoses by binding to the opioid receptors in the brain, blocking the effects of drugs such as fentanyl or heroin. Harm reduct... Read More...

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Perspectives in a City Plagued with Overdose Deaths

THERE IS A SOLUTION? – May 30, 2023 - Joining MORI took Molinski out of the office, where she most often worked with patients, and into their lives. “My experience with patients in the past had been in an offi... Read More...

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JUST IN! Super Wealthy Sackler Family Shielded from Opioid Lawsuits, Court Rules

HE WHO HAS THE GOLD MAKES THE LAW – May 30, 2023 - The second US circuit court of appeals in New York determined the company can shield its owners from legal claims in exchange for a $6bn contribution to the company’... Read More...

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DEA’s Failed to Punish Distributor Blamed in Opioid Crisis

AMERICA LOVES ADDICTION – May 23, 2023 - The DEA did not respond to repeated questions from The Associated Press about its handling of the case against Morris & Dickson Co. or the involvement of a high-profile co... Read More...

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DEA’s Fentanyl Investigations

VIDEO – NEVER ENDING – May 15, 2023 - “The days of needing to go in some dark alley to get drugs, now you can just … Young people especially are going online,” Forget said. “Knowing who your children hang out with in... Read More...

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A Searing Analysis of Racial Capitalism and Opioids

IT IS BLACK & WHITE – May 11, 2023 - Whiteout is written by three uniquely qualified individuals whose research and writing overlap. As a result, the book includes an astonishing amount of material backing ... Read More...

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Walgreens Pays San Francisco $230M for Role in Opioid Epidemic

HOW MUCH DID THEY PROFIT? – May 17, 2023 - Walgreens has agreed to pay San Francisco nearly $230 million to settle a lawsuit over its role in the city’s opioid crisis, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sai... Read More...

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New Bill to Use Mobile Pharmacies in Treating Opioid Addiction

VIDEO – TAKING IT TO THE STREETS – May 5, 2023 - A new bill aims to address the deadly fentanyl crisis by making it easier to get treatment to those who need it. The bill allows local jurisdictions to use mobile p... Read More...

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Canadian Opens Shop Selling Coke, MDMA and Heroin

A WORTHY RADICAL IDEA! – May 10, 2023 - BC is a province with a population of around five million people, which, for context, is significantly less than London’s roughly nine million people. In BC, an average o... Read More...

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How Fentanyl Became So Deadly

VIDEO – MONEY – May 5, 2023 - Fentanyl was not created to be used recreationally or bought and sold on the street. In the early 1960s the synthetic opioid was manufactured and approved by the FDA a few years... Read More...

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Netflix Tackles Opioid Crisis with Painkiller

THANK YOU NETFLIX – May 8, 2023 - Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s New Yorker article “The Family That Build an Empire of Pain,” and Barry Meier’s book, Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America... Read More...

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St. Louis DEA Seizes 1,300,000 Fentanyl Pills

VIDEO – PEOPLE MUST REALLY LOVE THIS DRUG – May 9, 2023 - ST. LOUIS — A year-long operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) put thousands of accused drug dealers behind bars. The DEA St. Louis Divisio... Read More...

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Fentanyl Strikes Again: Dead Kennedys Drummer D.H. Peligro Died From OD

PRINCE, TOM PETTY, MAC MILLER – MAY 2, 2023 - His bandmates first said they thought he died after accidentally falling and hitting his head, although, at the time, our law enforcement sources told us it was more myst... Read More...

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How the FDA Helped Fuel the Opioid Epidemic

WALL STRET JOURNAL: OPINION – May 2, 2023 - At an April Senate subcommittee hearing, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf blamed the pharmaceutical industry for a lack of nonaddictive nonopioid pai... Read More...

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Drug Deaths Fell in Kentucky in 2022

SOME BEATS – April 21, 2023 - “That number is still far too high,” the governor said at his weekly news conference. “One is too many. But with the opioid epidemic, we see far, far too many.” Increased use of... Read More...

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Israel is the #1 Opioid Consumer Per Capita

A SHONDA AND A SCANDAL – April 29 2023 - “The watershed was about 10 years ago, because before that doctors prescribed alternatives and there was less access to opioids. It wasn’t as easy for patients to get them as ... Read More...

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