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FDA Regulators Worked for the Sackler Family

IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB – April 13, 2022 - Dr. Smith, who this year was promoted to senior partner, did not respond to phone calls or emails seeking comment. One former McKinsey consultant familiar with his work s... Read More...

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Mental Health Problems Cause Reduced Cognitive Function

ITS A LOT TO THINK ABOUT – Why it matters - In recent decades, mental disorders have become increasingly prevalent in the United States and around the world, particularly in young adults and ado... Read More...

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Woman Turns Down Share of $6 bn. to Fight Sackler Family

GOD SPEED – April 10, 2022 - A cottage outside Floyd, Virginia, is a tranquil stage-set for Ellen Isaacs to wage one of the longest-running wars of the opioid epidemic: the battle to hold OxyContin-maker Purdu... Read More...

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Perv Gets 30 Years Related to 2 OD Deaths In His Home

IS PRISON PUNISHMENT? – April 14, 2022 - U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder said Thursday in downtown Los Angeles that the sentencing decision was difficult because she had to balance the good Buck did in... Read More...

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Is the Military Creating ‘A Perfect Storm’ For Eating Disorders?

TOO MUCH WEIGHT TO CARRY – April 15, 2022 - To Rand, that meant meeting the strict military standards for weight and body fat percentages. At the same time, she was coping with a sexual assault that happened wh... Read More...

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The Talk You Have To Watch

VIDEO – LISTEN AND LEARN – April 7, 2022 - Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former Los Angeles Times reporter, and author of three acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction. He is the acclaimed author ... Read More...

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Teen Deaths Rose Sharply From Fentanyl-Laced Pills

NPR TELLS THE STORY – April 12, 2022 - “So many of our young people are so busy being taught to not use drugs that when they are exposed to them or they’re surrounded by it, they actually have very little infor... Read More...

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Instagram and Snapchat Addiction Allegedly Led to 17-Year-Old Boy’s Suicide

MEDIA OVERDOSE DEATH – April 12, 2022 - The suit, shared with Gizmodo and filed on behalf of Wisconsin teen Christopher J. Dawley by the Social Media Victim Law Center, seeks to hold the two companies accounta... Read More...

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“Real Housewife” Pulls Back Curtain on Her Eating Disorder

VIDEO – YOU CAN BE TOO THIN – April 12, 2022 - In the carefully curated Bravo universe, thinness is considered a laudable moral success, and the Real Housewives franchise is ground zero for linking it to aspira... Read More...

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Mass Overdose Events Caused by Inadvertent Fentanyl Use

TIME TO QUIT? – April 7, 2022 - Less than a week earlier, on March 4, 21 individuals overdosed — 3 of whom died — at a homeless shelter in downtown Austin Texas, after ingesting crack-cocaine and methamphetamin... Read More...

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Pandemic ‘saved my life’ With Sobriety

AUDIO – SILENCE IS GOLDEN – April 4, 2022 - Using alcohol as that escape became the reality for many Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoho... Read More...

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Survivor: ‘I was a lucky one. I gotta make it worth it’

VIDEO – GRATEFUL EVERY DAY – April 6, 2022 - Ryan Christoff said he had known that his daughter “smoked a little weed” occasionally, but had no idea that the sophomore had actually been secretly experimenting ... Read More...

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Alcoholic? Gets 30-To-Life for Crash That Killed 3 People

ONLY MURDERERS DRIVE DRUNK – April 8, 2022 - A Rialto driver who killed three people during a high-speed crash in Irvine has been sentenced to 30-years-to-life in prison after admitting to causing the DUI-fuele... Read More...

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‘Pill Mill’ Doctor Heading To Prison

VIDEO – STRONG MEDICINE – April 7, 2022 - Officials say that after Kim was forced to resign in March of 2017 from the medical practice where he was employed due to concerns over his prescribing practices, he o... Read More...

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Alcohol Can Have Surprising Effects on Your Hair

TIME TO WIG OUT? – April 7, 2022 - First, too much booze on a regular basis can weaken your hair and lead to breakage. Alcohol can “inflame your scalp, so if you have any scalp-related issues, it exacerbates t... Read More...

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Walgreens Cries NOT GUILTY On Opioid Charges

GUILTY AS SIN? – April 5, 2022 - Florida, led by Attorney General Ashley Moody, contends that Walgreens has been an integral part of the opioid epidemic. As examples of excess, Moody said in a statement that on... Read More...

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The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide

AUDIO – SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN – April 4, 2022 - Trevor’s parents, Angela and Billy had been trying to understand why there are so few therapeutic interventions for children with depression. Trevor, the ch... Read More...

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How Everyone Got So Lonely

THE PALE BLUE DOT – April 11, 2022 - She cites many factors that have contributed to this dystopian moment—among them, smartphones, the gig economy, the contactless economy, the growth of cities, the rise in si... Read More...

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West Virginia Says J&J Created ‘tsunami’ of Opioid Addiction

STOCKS DID OK – April 4, 2022 - “This epidemic has impacted virtually all of West Virginia,” Morrisey said. “Our lawsuit speaks for all West Virginians who have suffered due to the defendants’ unlawful, callous... Read More...

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Addiction in Euphoria

EUPHORIA IN ADDICTION – April 5, 2022 - But that’s not to say that the show’s creators aren’t providing a brutally honest portrayal of how addiction affects those around you. After all, the only other TV show t... Read More...

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The Last Slap Story by Bruce Buschel

THE SLAP HEARD ROUND THE WORLD – April 7, 2022 - Poor confused Will Smith. There he was, sitting ringside on what should have been a glorious Oscar night, surrounded by friends and colleagues, and he couldn’t r... Read More...

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Opioid Recovery and the DOJ Disability Protections

AUDIO – RYAN HAMPTON QUOTED...AGAIN – April 6, 2022 - “There’s a ton of discrimination out there, including in the medical system,” said Joshua Sharfstein, Johns Hopkins University’s vice dean for public health... Read More...

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Sprawling Hollywood Drug Delivery Business Exposed

THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT – Mar. 28 - She replied with a menu offering acid ($40), ecstasy ($20), mushrooms ($120) and half a dozen other drugs. They cut a deal: a gram of cocaine and two oxycodone pills fo... Read More...

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There’s a Mental Health Crisis Among Nurses

HELP FOR THE HELPERS – Mar. 31, 2022 - On the morning of January 18, Joshua Paredes came home to an empty apartment. His roommate and good friend Michael Odell wasn’t there. They were both working as nur... Read More...

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This Army’s Mission Battles Drug Abuse

SURRENDER TO WIN – March 31, 2022 - It was then that Jones, an Army combat veteran who served in Iraq in 2004-05, turned to a different kind of army — Sage’s Army. Jones, a Donora resident, is now a certifi... Read More...

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Teens Talk Social Media and Body Image

A REFLECTION OF THE TIMES – Mar. 31, 2022 - As we regularly do when The Times writes about an issue that touches the lives of young people, we used our daily Student Opinion forum to ask teenagers to share the... Read More...

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Where Have All the Artist-Addicts Gone?

THEY’RE DEAD? – Mar. 24, 2022 - Any list of the great authors and poets of the 20th century would include countless addicts: Lucia Berlin, Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Er... Read More...

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‘Moon Knight’ Tackles Mental Illness in Comic Adaptation

SUPER HERO PROBLEMS – Mar. 30, 2022 - In a cinematic universe populated by gods, aliens, supersoldiers, galactic guardians, witches, androids and immortals, Moon Knight journeys into a previously uncharted ter... Read More...

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Why Are Addictions So Powerful? by Dr. Gabor Maté

VIDEO – PASSION PLAY – March 23, 2022 - From TEDx Talks: “As a medical doctor, I work in Vancouver, Canada, and I have worked with some very, very addicted people. People who use heroin, they inject cocaine, t... Read More...

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SF District Attorney on Drug Addiction Crisis

VIDEO – POLITICIAN WITH HEART – March 19, 2022 - San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin joins TYT to discuss drug addiction in San Francisco and how to remedy the problems associated with it. more@YouT... Read More...

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