All Opioid Pain Meds Get New Safety Warnings DON’T USE WITH ALCOHOL – April 13, 2023 - The FDA is making several updates to prescribing information for opioid pain medications to provide guidance on safe use, according to a Drug Safety Communication ... opens i... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 18 2023Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Doctor Sentenced For Writing ‘medically unnecessary’ Opioid Prescriptions VIDEO – NOT REALLY A HEALER – April 4, 2023 - A former Baton Rouge doctor has been sentenced after evidence at trial revealed he wrote “medically unnecessary” prescriptions for large amounts of opioids, authorities s... Read More...April 11 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Bold Efforts to Improve Access to Treatment for Opioid Addicts LET THEM IN – April 4, 2023 - Currently in the United States only three medications are indicated for the treatment of OUD. Buprenorphine is the only one that is routinely dispensed by community pharmacists with... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 11 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
The Dismissive Attitude On Solving Addiction Crisis OPINION – April 6, 2023 - Maybe it was because Kirby was so new to the process, or maybe he was just another Republican delegate in a supermajority that leadership could choose to ignore – and did. Part of w... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 11 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
Texas Has Declared War on Fentanyl and It’s Making the Same Deadly Mistakes. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF – April 4, 2023 - In his February State of the State address, Governor Greg Abbott made addressing the fentanyl crisis an emergency item in this year’s legislative session. Stating that Texas D... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 11 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Hipster City Lawless Hellscape Due to Rampant Drug Use VIDEO – DUE TO DRUG LAWS? – March 28, 2023 - She’s seen Oregon’s largest city go from a kooky progressive place with great restaurants and reliable public transportation to a ‘post-apocalyptic’ hellscape where ... Read More...April 4 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionhomelessinterventionlife expectancyMental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
THIS is the Oscar Nominated Movie to WATCH! All the Beauty and the Bloodshed VIDEO – DOCUMENTARIES RULE – March 9, 2023 - Between then and now, the museum announced it would no longer accept donations from the Sacklers and excised their name from its galleries. Once the Met’s most cherished ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 21 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
DEA’s New Rules Deadly to Opioid Addicts says Ryan Hampton YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK – March 14, 2023 - I worked on Capitol Hill and in state houses across the country for years, before a seemingly benign OxyContin prescription for pain sent me into a decade-long tailspi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 21 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Doctor Who Battled Addiction Helps Peers Do Same DOCTOR FEELGOOD – March 14, 2023 - In his early years as a primary care doctor in Boston, addiction devoured Grinspoon’s practice and his life. He snorted oxycodone in his office, wrote fraudulent prescriptions... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewMar 21 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Opioids Primary Cause of Poisoning Deaths in Children SAVE THE CHILDREN – March 13, 2023 - More than half of all reported poisonings affect children ages 5 and younger and have the highest rate of emergency department visits for unintentional drug-related poisonin... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 21 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Texas Town Grapples With Shock and Anger at Student’s Deaths VIDEO – AMERICAN NIGHTMARE – March 16, 2023 - Astudillo planned to get her son medical attention the next day, but by morning he was dead. “It hurts you to see your son after he’s gone and ask yourself, Why ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanyllife expectancyMar 21 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinteenagersTrauma
On the Trail of Fentanyl King BLIND AMBITION – March 8, 2023 - An order came in from a young marine in North Carolina. He wanted Oxy. Allawi went about fulfilling the order, choosing from among the bags of powders and chemicals strewn about... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMar 21 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Rite Aid Sued for Allowing “millions of opioid pills” to Flow Illegally From Stores MORE THAN THE CARTELS? – March 15, 2023 - The lawsuit, filed in Cleveland federal court, said Rite Aid repeatedly filled prescriptions from May 2014 to June 2019 that were medically unnecessary, for off-label use or ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMar 21 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
Denmark’s Opioid Crisis: Kids as Young as 12 Hooked on Tramadol, ‘oxy’ and Other Painkillers VIDEO – ANXIETY IS INTERNATIONAL – Feb. 27, 2023 - “Let’s say they have four friends, then suddenly we’re up to 20-30 young people taking them. And that’s just the ones we know about,” Ekmann said in an interview wit... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 7 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Harvard Still Siding with the Sackler Family Murderers? AIN’T SO SMART AFTER-ALL – March 1, 2023 - I spent some of the summer after my first year at Harvard Law School working on the case against Purdue Pharma, the company that infamously produced and marketed opioi... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 7 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Purdue Pharma’s Sackler Selling $30M In Property Amid Opioid Crisis VIDEO – HE CAN’T SELL THE PRISON HIS MIND LIVES IN – Feb. 24, 2023 - Sackler — a member of the billionaire family whose Purdue Pharma was accused of sparking the deadly drug epidemicby aggressively marketing th... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMarch 7 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
How Oxford University Stuck With Sacklers as Opioid Deaths Led Others to Cut Ties BLOOD MONEY = CRIME MONEY – Feb. 21, 2023 - The public outcry over the opioid crisis has provoked most arts and academic institutions previously patronised by the Sacklers to cut ties. The first wave o... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 28 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Drug Combinations Known to Cause More Overdose Deaths IT’S NOT COMPLICATED – Feb. 20, 2023 - “It presents sort of a problem because in an overdose situation, the Narcan isn’t going to work. It’s not an opiate, so Narcan is not going to reverse it,” Kalfas said. ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 28 2023fentanylHeroin Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
New Street Drug Threatening to Make California’s Overdose Crisis Worse WORSE THAN WORSE – Feb. 18, 2023 - In San Francisco, four people who died between December and January were found to have low levels of xylazine in their systems, prompting the city’s Department of Public Healt... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 28 2023fentanylHeroin Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
How AI Can Help Create Drugs To Treat Opioid Addiction ARTIFICIALLY – Feb. 20, 2023 - Kappa-opioid receptors are known to mediate brain rewards. “If you’re addicted and you’re trying to quit, at some point you will get withdrawal symptoms, and those can be really h... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 28 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecovery
DID ALEX MURDAUGH SPEND $50K A WEEK ON OPIOIDS? VIDEO – CASH TALKS NOBODY WALKS – Feb. 22, 2023 - Murdaugh clearly had a problem. How bad was it? How much was he spending? Can someone even consume $50K worth of opioids in a week? Experts weigh in. Click@CourtT... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 28 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
Alex Murdaugh On Opioid Addiction and Hiring Man to Kill Him VIDEO – IT’S COMPLICATED – Feb. 23, 2023 - Alex Murdaugh addressed his drug use, financial problems, and hiring a man to kill him. Click@WLTX ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 28 2023opioid crisisopioidsoxycontin
Can More Arrests Solve Addiction Crisis? VIDEO – HAS IT EVER? – Feb. 20, 2023 - Police to crack down on public drug use; are more arrests key to ending drug crisis? Click@YakTriNews ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 28 2023interventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Lisa Marie Presley Ingested Opioids, Lost 50 lbs. Before Death VIDEO – DRUGS CAN KILL ANYONE’S DAUGHTER, EVEN A KING – Jan. 30, 2023 - Presley’s mother Priscilla, 77, recently contested “the authenticity and validity” of her daughter’s will. According to court documents... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 28 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
ENGLAND May Be On Brink of Becoming a ZOMBIELAND ONE ZOMBIE AT A TIME – Feb. 14, 2023 - EU drug enforcement chiefs believe that Mexican cartels are seeking to expand their billion-dollar empire beyond American shores, putting Europe’s untapped market in their cross... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 21 2023fentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
FDA Panel Backs Making Narcan an Over The Counter Drug OVERDOSE DRUG OVER THE COUNTER – Feb. 15, 2023 - The manufacturer, Emergent Biosolutions, said it would revise the packaging and labeling to address those concerns. The FDA will make a final decision on the dru... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 21 2023interventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Pentagon Finally Stops Hiding Military Overdose Epidemic PURPLE BROKEN HEARTS – Feb. 16, 2023 - The demographics of those hardest hit paralleled the opioid crisisin the civilian population, where people without college degrees have suffered the most from the scourge of opi... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 21 2023interventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTrauma
Simple Way To Reduce Overdose Deaths GOOD NEWS? – Feb. 12, 2023 - As health economists, we separately participated in two recent studies that showed the payoffs from straightforward and inexpensive mailings. In one, researchers fol... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 21 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin
ANGELS OVER TEXAS: Moms put dead children’s pics on billboards FACING THE FACTS – Feb. 11, 2023 - Now, eight digital and four vinyl billboards have been set up across the state with the faces of the 25 people, who died after taking the drug. The signs also come with a caption th... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 21 2023fentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinTrauma
I Took Oxy And Fentanyl For Years ONE MAN POISON IS ANOTHER WOMAN’S LONGEVITY – Jan. 30, 2023 - This was pain that knifed and throbbed ― that consumed my life. Pain that would cause me to vomit repeatedly, long after my stomach was empty. Pain ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 14 2023fentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontin