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Family of Shooting Victim Believes Addiction Played a Factor in His Death

VIDEO – DRUGS KILL IN MANY WAYS – Sept. 4, 2023 - According to authorities, just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Spokane Police Department (SPD) officers responded to reports of a shooting in the area. There, they foun... Read More...

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El Chapo’s Wife Released from SoCal Halfway House

VIDEO – EARLY RELEASE – Sept. 13, 2023 - The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was released from federal custody on Wednesday after completing a three-year sentence for helping him run his... Read More...

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Lawmakers Searching for Answers. Why is Fentanyl Killing Kids?

LOOK WITHIN SOCIETY – Aug. 30, 2023 - Mississippi enacted a bill in March mandating a media campaign aimed at youth. California lawmakers are also considering requiring the state health department to make an o... Read More...

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Woman Says Star Exposed Himself Then Laughed About it on the Radio

NOT FUNNY –Sept. 10, 2023 - The woman says it happened in 2008 when she was working in the same building as the BBC in Los Angeles. The encounter left her stunned, she says. Minutes later, he was recorded laugh... Read More...

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TikTokers Filming ‘Zombieland’ Videos of Drug Addicts on Skid Row Sparks Social Media Craze

AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL – Sept. 10, 2023 - Are the videos, seen by millions of TikTok and YouTube users, a horrifying form of exploitation and voyeurism? Or are they the cutting edge of a new form of citizen jour... Read More...

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12 Overdoses in 24 Hours in Harrisburg

VIDEO – THE DIRTIEST DOZEN –Sept 9, 2023 - Potential signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose include: Loss of consciousness. Markedly constricted or pinpoint pupils. Breathing difficulties (slowed, labored... Read More...

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British Media Report Rape and Emotional Abuse Allegations Against Russell Brand

DID HE? – Sept. 16, 2023 - Brand issued a video statement on Friday denying the allegations.“Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely re... Read More...

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I Loved My Alcoholic Dad – But He Died Alone

ESSAY –Sept. 3, 2023 - She had to be strong and resolute, meaning she was often unable to talk about her feelings and mine. I can see the generational effect of addiction on us all.I became aware that my dad had... Read More...

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Dumping Dirty Syringes and Bodily Fluids into Dumpsters Costs Kaiser Permanente $49 Million

BRAIN SALAD SURGERY? – Sept. 8, 2023 - “Nurses, physicians and patients could inadvertently touch blood or bodily fluids containing dangerous pathogens. Custodians and sanitation workers could be stuck by a us... Read More...

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City Official Resigns After Creating ‘Doom Loom Walking Tour’ of San Francisco

VIDEO – SATIRE OR SALACIOUS? – Aug. 28, 2023 - The sold out weekend tour was canceled and on Monday Ludlum resigned, saying it was all satire and, “the causes of the conditions we witness daily are not individual a... Read More...

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The Pope Says: ‘We Cannot Be Indifferent’ to People Caught in Drug Addiction

WWJD? –Aug. 27, 2023 - Francis underlined in his message that it is often teens and young adults who fall into addiction, especially in a society in which they are “deprived of points of reference” during a delicate... Read More...

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Docs Struggling as Flesh-Rotting ‘Zombie Drug’ Grips NY

VIDEO – MODERN LEPROSY? –Aug. 28, 2023 - “There was a change in his behavior when he started using xylazine — he started going cuckoo,” his heartbroken mother, Merri Eddy, recently told The Post. “I didn’t know what... Read More...

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Ecuador is Hooked on Dangerous Drugs

BORDERLINE –Aug. 24, 2023 - Teenage drug users play games and sports to improve social and behavioural skills. The Puyo centre has 42 beds with separate wings to treat boys and men. Some of the teenagers, many from ... Read More...

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NYC Drug Addicts Reach New Low Accessorizing with Needles Hanging Out Their Arms

EVERYONE’S A PLEASURE SEEKER – Aug. 19, 2023 - “That’s what I used to see when I was a kid, people all overdosed in the middle of the street — and dead,” Angel Figueroa, 55, who works in Midtown and grew up surroun... Read More...

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Entire Neighborhood Sets up Booby Traps to Protect Themselves from Drug Addicts

VIDEO – HORRIFYING – Aug. 16, 2023 - Kensington has gained international attention for its excessive public drug use and has become a focal point for high crime and poverty in the City of Brotherly Love. The neighb... Read More...

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Horrifying Amount of Americans Won’t Make it to Old Age

VERY SAD STORY –July 31, 2023 - On a white board at the end of the room, across from the sofas, the names of former clients who have died of overdoses in the past few years are listed. Though the town has a populati... Read More...

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Flesh-Rotting Tranq Infects Cocaine Supply

VIDEO – SCARY TIMES – July 31, 2023 - “We’ve seen an increase in street-level distribution of cocaine-xylazine mixture,” Frank Tarentino, the special agent in charge of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s... Read More...

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He Shouldn’t Have Died In Jail

NEW JERSEY TRAGEDY – July 27, 2023 - Somewhere along the line at Boston College, Odom’s not sure exactly when, her son started to spiral, first with signs of mental illness — schizoaffective disorder, she says... Read More...

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Wealthy Sackler Family Avoids Civil Lawsuits Over Opioid Deaths

THE 3 FACES OF EVIL –July 25, 2023 - Under a deal reached last year with thousands of state and local government entities, the company is to become a new entity, with its profits being used to fight the opioid epide... Read More...

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Most Emergency Call Centers Understaffed

PAY THEM MORE – July 27, 2023 - While the survey did not do a census of every 911 center, “the clear response from the sample is that most centers are understaffed,’ NENA CEO Brian Fontes told Axios.Respon... Read More...

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New York Launches Overdose Prevention Campaign

STOP THE DYING –July 13, 2023 - New York health officials on Tuesday launched a public service campaign highlighting the importance of naloxone, a medication that is used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose... Read More...

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Nan Goldin vs. The Powers of the Opioid Death Cash Grab

ARTISTS SAVE LIVES –July 17, 2023 - Nan Goldin’s photography is a lesson in capturing life; its raw brutality and beautiful banality. Best known for her celebrated slideshows, Goldin’s work documents humanity as a s... Read More...

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Sheriff’s Homeless Outreach Finds Mental Illness & Addiction

AUDIO – IT’S COMPLICATED –July 12, 2023 - Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper on Wednesday announced the results of a recent homeless outreach effort and called for robust funding to address serious problems that p... Read More...

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What Holds Us Back From Breaking Chains of Addiction?

BAD HABITS – July 9, 2023 - What holds us back from recovery? Externals or things outside ourselves — such as being in a certain place — can slow recovery.Our own internal thoughts and addiction desires ca... Read More...

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ER Visits for Teen Girls Booming

NOT AN EASY TIME –July 12, 2023 - A second study in JAMA Network Open also showed that mental health visits to EDs across the United States decreased less than non-mental health visits during the pandemic, showing m... Read More...

Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJuly 18 2023Mental HealthRecoveryteenagersTrauma

Alcohol Consumption Surged During Covid — and Deaths Followed

ALCOHOL IS A DRUG –July 13, 2023 - Mississippi saw a 159 percent increase in alcohol-related deaths, the nation’s biggest leap, along with a 10 percent rise in apparent consumption. In Delaware, consumption increase... Read More...

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San Francisco’s Open-Air Drug Mart

THE CITY BUY THE BINDLE –July 10, 2023 - Dervin Amado Arteaga Ervir, a 15-year-old boy from the Honduran village of El Escano de Tepale, had just parted ways with his father when he joined other young Honduran migra... Read More...

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Injection Sites Would Save Lives

NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT –July 9, 2023 - But addiction is not governed by commonsense, reason or logic. It is a compulsive, self-destructive disease. Addicts who can’t use in a safe environment will play Russian roul... Read More...

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