Trauma

Demi Talks ‘survivor’s guilt’ After 2018 Overdose

SHARING HEALS –    Aug. 18, 2022 - Lovato, who recently added back the pronouns she/her, suffered an overdose in…

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Overdose Prevention Should Be Part of Each College’s Core Curriculum

BEFORE ALGEBRA –  August 11, 2022 - I’m not being alarmist: During that same spring break, four students in Florida…

2 years ago

Girlfriend Charged With Murder For Meth-Laced Kiss With Inmate

GOING TO ANY LENGTH –  Aug. 17, 2022 - Rachel Dollard, 33, allegedly hid a balloon containing a half-ounce of…

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My Father’s Drug Addiction Put Mask On Me.

THERE IS A SOLUTION –  Aug. 17, 2022 - I wear a mask. The labels that represent me — committed…

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Every ER Doctor Will See An Overdose Every Shift

AUDIO – HOW MANY GET TO GO HOME? –  Aug. 9, 2022 - “This is an expected type of patient…

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Risk Of Mental Illness And Brain Disease Increases After Covid

THE FOG OF...WHAT? –    Aug 17, 2022 -  People who have had Covid-19 are at an increased risk of…

2 years ago

My Adult ADHD Meds Felt Like Lifeline. Then Came the Scary Side-Effects…

PILLS CAN BACKFIRE –  Aug. 2022 - I had been a restless child. The first night I slept in a…

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CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Fined Only $650,000,000 For Ohio’s Opioids Horror Show

ANOTHER DROP IN THE BUCKET –  August 17, 2022 - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered three of the nation’s…

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Florida Leads Nation In Overdose Deaths From New Synthetic Drug: Eutylone

VIDEO – EUTYLONE EUTYLONE EUTYLONE –    Aug. 13, 2022 - Florida is leading the nation in overdose deaths with…

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Thalidomide: What Really Happened (a look back)

THE EVIL MEN DO –  Nov. 14, 2014 - The criminal trial of employees of Chemie-Grünenthal, the German company that…

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Anne Heche Died Tragic Death. Why Are People Shaming Her?

VIDEO – IT HURTS –    Aug. 15, 2022 - Heche’s injuries left her brain-dead. On Sunday, her family took…

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How Photographers Help Fight Addiction in Philly

VIDEO – STARING IN THE FACE OF HOPELESSNESS –    Aug. 16, 2022 -  “It just doesn’t feel comfortable for…

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SF Walgreens Colluded with Opioid Manufacturers

VIDEO – Walgreens Guilty as Sin –  Aug. 10, 2022 - Amanda Starrantino reports on a judge ruling in San…

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Tennessee Sues Walgreens For Leading Role in Opioid Crisis

VIDEO – Walgreens Sucks –  Aug. 10, 2022 - The Tennessee Attorney General is suing Walgreens for selling over a…

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13-Year-Old Boy Dead from Accidental Fentanyl Overdose

VIDEO – ARE YOU SOBBING OR SCREAMING? –    Aug. 12, 2022 - AURORA, Colo. — Younger and younger kids…

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Man Denied Liver Transplant Because of Alcoholism

VIDEO – FAMILY OFFERS ONE –    Aug. 12, 2022 - Quebec man denied liver transplant because of his alcoholism.…

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Officials Push for Gov. Newsom to Approve Safe Consumption Sites

VIDEO – TIME FOR DEATH REDUCTION –    Aug. 10, 2022 - People would be able to bring drugs into…

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Fentanyl Overdose Murder Case is First of its Kind

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD –    Aug. 8, 2022 - ndictments have been issued in similar overdose cases in Duval County and…

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Computer Algorithms Improve Timeliness of Overdose Data

NOW YOU KNOW NOW –  Aug. 10, 2022 - We found that for most substances evaluated, the performance of these…

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Doctor Prescribed Drugs with ‘reckless abandon’ Given 15-years

DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH THE DEVIL –  Aug. 30, 2022 - The daughter of one of the five people whose deaths…

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Is Social Media Use Form of Dissociation?

ITS MYSTERIES ABOUND –  August 5, 2022 - What is dissociation? Many researchers think dissociation occurs on a spectrum. On one…

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Big Pharma’s Crime: Profits From Addiction

CARTELS ON WALL STREET –    August 5, 2022 - Painkiller producers such as Purdue Pharma — the maker of…

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How the Pharmaceutical Industry Operates Like Deadly Drug Cartel

AUDIO – CVS, Walmart, Walgreens WIN BIG –  Aug. 2, 2022 - It’s estimated that more than 107,000 people in…

2 years ago

FDA’s Flawed Approach to Accelerated Drug Approvals

FOLLOW THE MONEY –  July 25, 2022 - NPR found that 42% of currently outstanding confirmatory studies – or 50…

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Medicating Complexity

TIED WITH PLACEBO –   July 25, 2022 - A paper in the journal Molecular Psychiatry recently tried to examine…

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Trump Calls for the Execution of Drug Dealers

THE FINAL SOLUTION –   July 27, 2022 - The former president’s claims contradict decades of research and data on…

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Model Exposes the Dangerous Side of the Fashion Industry

SHE’S WORTH THE WEIGHT –    July 29, 2022 - I felt like I was constantly being body-shamed by people…

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Residents Raise Money for Addiction Billboard

VIDEO – COMMUNITY HEARTACHE SHARED –  July 30 2022 - Video Only - Boonville residents raise money for addiction billboard.…

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Jewish Communities Grapple with Addiction as Crisis Ravages US

VIDEO – NO ONE IS IMMUNE –   July 27, 2022 - A graduate of a Brooklyn yeshiva, David, a…

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DEA in Miami Warns of Synthetic Drug Mass Overdose Events

VIDEO – MURDER IN MIAMI –  July 18, 2022 - Mass-overdose events typically occur when criminals market drugs like cocaine,…

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