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11/10/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Peer pressure turnaround: New research shows a reduction in youth tobacco use when friends stage an intervention

Despite an abundance of smoking cessation aids available, many people struggle to kick this dangerous habit. It’s not surprising that some adults who have been smoking for decades cannot imagine living without their cigarettes, but are the chances any better of getting young people to abandon the habit? A study that was recently published in […]

11/06/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

The opioid epidemic in context: Expert reviews the history, facts

Opioid use and drug overdose deaths have both risen astronomically in the U.S. recently, and it’s hard to avoid headlines about what has become the top cause of accidental death in the nation. It’s common knowledge by now that the country has a serious opioid problem, but how did we find ourselves in this dire […]

10/12/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

New Jersey lawsuit accuses Big Pharma of “nothing short of EVIL”

A new lawsuit that accuses a pharmaceutical company of conduct that is “nothing short of evil” echoes the sentiment of many people who have suffered or lost loved ones due to the unsavory practices of Big Pharma. Big Pharma’s list of wrongdoings is rather lengthy, but the offense that is at the heart of the […]

10/11/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock kept a doctor “on retainer” to keep feeding him mind-altering psychotropic drugs

The man behind the recent Las Vegas massacre has something in common with the perpetrators of many other mass shootings in recent years: Psychiatric drug use. A court deposition in a civil lawsuit filed by Paddock over a slip-and-fall incident against the Cosmopolitan Hotel that was obtained by CNN provides insight into his state of […]

10/09/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Thanks to addictive opioids, senior citizens are the new drug dealers

Most people have a certain image that comes to mind when they imagine drug dealers. More often than not, it’s an unkempt younger man lurking in the shadows of a side street looking the worse for wear. Few people would expect to find an 85-year-old woman being charged with drug dealing, but this is exactly […]

09/28/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Opioid addiction is bankrupting America, county by county, city by city… will America collapse into a narco-pharma state?

We’ve heard a lot about the crime and deaths caused by the opioid crisis, but what about the financial impact of it? Many small towns are struggling to cover the costs associated with the epidemic, whether it’s emergency calls, coroner bills, courtrooms, or overcrowded prisons. Reuters recently examined the case of Ross County, Ohio, which […]

08/24/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

68,000 doctors bribed by Big Pharma with $47 million to prescribe dangerous painkiller drugs, analysis finds

As America grapples with alleviating the opioid addiction crisis that killed more than 30,000 people in the country in 2015, the debate rages on over the best way to tackle the issue. One aspect many people can agree on, however, is the fact that doctors are overprescribing these dangerous drugs, spurring addictions that can eventually […]

08/16/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Trump’s solution to the opioid epidemic crisis? MORE SPENDING on mental health services and “treatment”

Last Thursday, President Donald Trump announced to reporters that he would be declaring America’s opioid crisis a national emergency, as roughly 142 people die each day of drug overdoses in the U.S. Trump is correct that the problem has gotten out of hand in our nation, with around 35,000 people dying of opioid or heroin […]

08/03/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

America on drugs: Shocking one-third of U.S. adults are prescribed opioids

If you think that America’s opioid epidemic hasn’t touched your life, statistics show there is a good chance you are wrong, with one out of every three American adults taking opioids during 2015. That equates to 92 million adults. It’s a shocking statistic that means you could well know more than one person who is […]

07/09/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

How doctors got rich pushing Big Pharma’s addictive opioids

Fentanyl is the most powerful opioid that has ever been mass-marketed. Quick to kick in and powerful enough to conquer pain that other opioids couldn’t touch, it was designed with the intention of helping cancer patients die comfortably. Why, then, is this “heroin on steroids” given out to patients in New Jersey for routine operations […]

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