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He Brewed Poppy Tea For His Chronic Pain That Led To His Opioid Addiction

SHOULD HAVE STUCK TO ESPRESSO – Feb. 2023 - The authors of the case report noted that the man did not show signs of a substance use disorder when he was taking prescribed opioids, but his use of poppy seed tea was wh... Read More...

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What It’s Like to Grow Up in an Alcoholic Family

ASK AN ALATEEN – Jan. 23, 2023 - On the other hand, the children also framed themselves as competent agents who developed effective coping strategies, such as trying to reduce their parent’s drinking and... Read More...

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Family Uses Son’s Adderall Death To Warn Others

VIDEO – DOC DRUGS CAN KILL TOO – Jan. 24, 2023 - VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Richard Fee was destined to change the world, but after becoming addicted to a prescribed psychiatric drug, his life was cut short. News 3 ... Read More...

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Son Died From Fentanyl He Bought Through Snapchat

VIDEO – SNAPDEATH – Jan. 25, 2023 - On Aug. 15, 2020, Nicholas took his last breath after overdosing on a counterfeit pain pill made with fentanyl. “I was trying everything and anything I could to help him,” said... Read More...

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Dr Michelle Humeidan on Pro-Active Pain Management

VIDEO – LIFE IS NOT SUFFERING – Jan. 27, 2023 - Dr. Humeidan is providing pain management alternatives with a program for cancer patients. This program sends patients home on a strict and constant 24-hour regimen of... Read More...

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The Drug Was Meant to Save Children’s Lives, Instead … They’re Dying

LAX REGULATION? – Jan. 25, 2023 - At an urgent care clinic, the doctor found more lumps under Isadora’s arms and in her groin. The doctor urged Emily to take her daughter to a hospital as soon as she and her hu... Read More...

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Addiction Crisis Causing Spike In Endocarditis Cases

STOP BEFORE IT STOPS YOUR HEART – Jan. 17, 2023 - With drug deaths hovering at an all-time high and endocarditis cases among drug users up nearly tenfold in the last decade, physicians, researchers, and health ... Read More...

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Women Search For Solutions After Mass Overdose Event

VIDEO – RESOLUTION? – Jan. 13, 2023 - “It’s really important to me for lots of reasons,” Paul said. “I’ve lost lots of family members to opioid overdoses, right? I’ve lost a nephew, a cousin, my brother, and my son ... Read More...

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The Eerie Story of the Chelsea Hotel

VIDEO – AMERICAN HISTORY LESSON – Jan. 20, 2023 - In the 1960s especially, the Chelsea Hotel served as a symbol for counterculture, forming the literal background of Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s Chelsea Girls.... Read More...

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Priscilla Presley Tried To Save Lisa Marie From Drugs By Turning To Scientology

VIDEO – GOING TO ANY LENGTHS – Jan. 17, 2023 - For a very long time, Priscila Presley joined the contentious church and even reared her kid there. But in 2013, Lisa Marie Presley left Scientology. As a result o... Read More...

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1-Year-Old Dies of Fentanyl Overdose, Mommy Arrested

VIDEO ONLY – F**KING MADNESS – Jan. 14, 2023 - Kenner’s mother, 34-year-old Alexis Callero, was arrested earlier this week for second-degree murder, cruelty to a juvenile and various drug charges. Click@WWLT... Read More...

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Fentanyl Test Strips on the Dance Floor? Partygoers Face New Reality

YOU SHOULD NEVER DIE FROM DOING COKE – Jan. 18, 2023 - Grabbing fentanyl test strips near the dance floor speaks to the way fentanyl has permeated so many corners of America. No longer just a threat to chronic ... Read More...

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‘Injecting Hope’ Watch Documentary

VIDEO – FILM MATTERS – Jan. 8, 2023 - From the mayor’s office to the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, ABC7 News meets those trying to solve the drug overdose crisis and those caught in addiction. We hit ... Read More...

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NYC Reports Spike In Fentanyl Deaths

MADE IN CHINA – Jan. 13, 2023 - Fentanyl, an opioid 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, was detected in 80% of drug overdose deaths in 2021, health officials said. It was also the most common substan... Read More...

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Tranq Dope: Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror

HORROR AMID THE HORRORS – Jan. 7, 2023 - Over a matter of weeks, Tracey McCann watched in horror as the bruises she was accustomed to getting from injecting fentanyl began hardening into an armor o... Read More...

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Why Some People Thrive After Trauma

TAKE THAT DR. MATÉ – Jan. 9, 2023 - The pandemic was a collective, global trauma. Even if you were lucky and navigated the last few years without losing loved ones, a job or becoming ill, the experience ... Read More...

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Vancouver Actor’s Struggle with Addiction and Street Life

VIDEO – NOT A PRETTY PICTURE – Dec. 29, 2022 - In a chance meeting with Global News near Main and Hastings in October, Coulson explains how he’s snorting government-issued drugs through a straw as he waits to get in... Read More...

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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...

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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...

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Screen All Surgery Patients for Cannabis Use

BONG AT YOUR OUR RISK – Jan. 3, 2023 - Cannabis is the most commonly used recreational drug in the U.S. and the most commonly used psychoactive substance after alcohol, noted guideline co-author and ASRA Pain M... Read More...

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Children Accidentally Eating Cannabis Edibles

PARENTAL ABUSE – Jan. 3, 2023 - Clinical toxicologist Varun Vohra said the Michigan Poison & Drug Information Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he is the director, has experienced i... Read More...

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Scientists Say Planet Facing Sixth Mass Extinction

VIDEO – IT WAS NICE WHILE IT LASTED – Jan. 1, 2023 - Today, wild plants and animals are running out of places to live. The scientists you’re about to meet say the Earth is suffering a crisis of mass extinction on a ... Read More...

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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...

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What You Need To Know About The Deadly New Drug

A NEW WAY TO DIE – Dec. 21, 2022 - One of the most dangerous and deadly drugs to ever hit the market could be hiding in plain sight, and if we don’t take swift action, we could be facing another devasting wave ... Read More...

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Dr. Gabor Maté: Who Gets Sick, and How to Prevent it

VIDEO – AT IT AGAIN – Nov. 2022 - Dr. Gabor Maté (addiction, stress, and childhood development speaker & bestselling author) joins us to explain which groups of people tend to be most prone to chronic illness,... Read More...

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‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ actor Tyler Sanders Died From Fentanyl Overdose

EVERY DEATH IS TRAGIC – Dec. 29, 2022 - In the full coroner’s report obtained by the entertainment site, Sanders texted a friend the night before he died where he mentioned he was using fentanyl. The report wen... Read More...

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After Record Deaths, There Have Been Reforms in Addiction Treatment

AUDIO – DEAR MR. FANTASY – Dec. 30, 2022 - You know, A, I think it’s helpful to remember how the COVID pandemic kept changing - right? - as different strains of the virus emerged. Well, the opioid epidemic is kind... Read More...

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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...

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Clive Davis: Whitney Houston made ‘valiant attempt’ to give up drugs before death

THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL – Dec. 25, 2022 - The “I Will Always Love You” singer was found unconscious in a Beverly Hilton suite, submerged in the bathtub on Feb. 11, 2012. Paramedics performed CPR but she... Read More...

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Justice Dept. Sues Corporate Opioid Dealer

WALL STREET GETS OFF EASY – Dec. 29, 2022 - The federal Controlled Substances Act requires pharmaceutical distributors to monitor their customer orders and notify federal officials of any that may be of ... Read More...

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