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...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 13 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
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...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 6 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Sacklers Gave $19 Million to U.S. Agency that Helped Exacerbate Opioid Deaths BIG PHARMA WINDFALL – April 23, 2023 - Accepting millions of dollars from the Sackler family while advising the federal government on pain policy “would be considered a conflict of interest under almost any con... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 2 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Harvard Students Call on University to Dename Sackler Buildings at Art Museum’s ‘Die-In’ AUDIO – REAL EDUCATION – April 21, 2023 - More than 50 protesters called on Harvard to remove the Sackler name from all University sites and departments — including the Arthur M. Sackler Building and Arthur M. ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 25 2023Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
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
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
The New CDC Opioid Guidelines Abandon Pain Patients VIDEO – WIN WIN LOSE LOSE – Jan. 5, 2023 - Six years later, with millions harmed, the CDC emphasizes that its guidelines should never be used for an “inflexible, rigid standard of care” and “patient abandonment.” Ho... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJan 10 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
Supreme Court Ruling Tosses ‘pill mill’ Convictions PILL PUSHERS FREED – Jan. 5, 2023 - The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions of Xiulu Ruan and John Couch for unlawfully dispensing controlled substances after find... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 10 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
Oscar Buzz for ‘All The Beauty and the Bloodshed’ that Explores Sackler Family Murderers FILMS CAN IMPROVE YOUR LIFE – Jan. 5, 2023 - Poitras, who won a best documentary Oscar in 2014 for Citizenfour, about ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden, thanked the Venice Film Festival jury at the ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 10 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryREEL Recovery Film FestivalTrauma
Feds Sue ‘AmerisourceBergen’ For ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Opioid Violations AUDIO – GREEDY WHITE COLLAR MURDERERS GO FREE – Dec. 29, 2022 - According to the complaint, AmerisourceBergen executives knew prescription pills shipped to Florida and West Virginia were being diverted and “sold i... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 3 2023opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
Doctor Arrested for Taking Cash for Oxycodone JUST LIKE THE PHARMACIST – Dec. 14, 2022 - The prescriptions written by Jafari-Hassad had no legitimate medical purpose, according to officials. The doctor would also bill their insurance for a variety of charg... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 20 2022Drug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
CVS & Walgreens Agree to Pay $10 billion Fine For Selling Opioids THEY STILL CAME OUT AHEAD – Dec. 13, 2022 - In total, corporations have had to pay $54 billion in settlements. Walmart agreed last month to pay more than $3 billion to states, while four pharmaceutical companie... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 20 2022Drug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue Pharma
Artist Nan Goldin on Addiction and Exposing the Sackler Deadly Dynasty VIDEO – ARTIST/ACTIVIST IN EVERY WAY – Dec. 4, 2022 - Poitras deftly weaves Goldin’s activism into the bigger story of her life and art, including the rawly intimate photographic projects such as The Ballad of ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 13 2022Drug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
FILM REVIEW: ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ GO SEE A GOOD MOVIE – Dec. 2, 2022 - “It’s not a biodoc in any standard sense, thank God — Poitras, whose own career has revolved around the War on Terror, is much too ambitious a filmmaker to box ... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 13 2022Drug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryREEL Recovery Film FestivalTrauma
‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’: Best documentary of the year calls for accountability in opioid crisis VIDEO – ACTIVISM SAVES LIVES – Dec. 7, 2022 - As the opioid epidemic rages on across the U.S., impacting Canada as well, Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras is telling the story of renowned artist and activist... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 13 2022Drug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
Florida Rejects New Opioid Guidelines AND HUMANITY – Nov. 21, 2022 - Opioid use disorder is a chronic life-threatening disease that people contract through exposure to opioids, either illicit or prescribed by a physician. In recognition of t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionNov 29 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
Walmart Offers to Pay $3.1 Billion to Settle Opioid Lawsuits HOW MUCH DID THEY MAKE? – Nov. 15, 2022 - The deals are the product of negotiations with a group of state attorneys general, but they are not final. The CVS and Walgreens deals would have to be accepted ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionNov 22 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
“Untreated & Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America” Now Streaming on Pluto MEDIA MATTERS – Nov. 9, 2022 - The documentary was made possible through the active participation and leadership of Horizon Media. Bill Koenigsberg, CEO and founder of Horizon Media, serves on the board at Part... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionNov 15 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaRecoveryTrauma
Companies Culpable For $1.5 Trillion-a-Year Opioid Crisis to Pay $53 Billion Fine GREEDY MONSTERS – Nov. 2, 2022 - A combination of the growing numbers of people buying illegal opioids, and the ubiquity of fentanyl have driven up overdose deaths in the US to unprecedented levels. In 2... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionNov 8 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinPurdue PharmaTrauma
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
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
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