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09/11/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Is extra monitoring a solution for opioid abuse? Proposal would send high-dose users to special pain units

British doctors are calling for stricter rules in the management of painkillers in order to fight the opioid addiction epidemic. These medical professionals are now suggesting that patients who are given highly powerful opioids such as oxycodone and tramadol should be referred to special pain units who would then conduct monthly reviews. The goal is […]

07/09/2018 / By S.D. Wells

Health Basics QUIZ: Which has killed more Americans, all U.S. wars put together or prescription drugs?

Which is more dangerous, fighting in a war, or returning from a war and taking experimental prescription drugs for PTSD and pain? Since the war in Afghanistan, where insidious politicians auspiciously helped opium production levels rise to astronomical rates, heroin has become the root of many prescription drugs that Americans find themselves not only addicted to, […]

02/26/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Ex-opioid addict starts online campaign against billionaire family behind OxyContin; their company, Purdue Pharma, has made billions off opioids

World-renowned and distinguished photographer Nan Goldin is using her art to yet again expose the hidden truths of an unreported world — this time in lambasting the billionaire family responsible for the pain relief drug, OxyContin. Goldin, a recovering drug addict, says that the Sackler family has turned a blind eye to the growing epidemic […]

02/16/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Maker of highly addictive OxyContin says it will stop incentivizing doctors to push its deadly drugs

The opioid crisis has reached epidemic proportions in this country, with the number of deaths quadrupling since 2000, and around 115 people dying from overdoses each day. President Trump has declared the opioid crisis a national health emergency, and high schools across the country have started stocking up on the drug Narcan to try to […]

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 […]

09/05/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

The company behind America’s opioid epidemic pleaded guilty to felony crimes a decade ago, yet is still allowed to sell products across America

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that nearly 150 Americans now die from a drug overdose each day. In the past decade, opioid overdoes have quadrupled, as have sales of prescription opioid painkillers. There are now more deaths attributable to drug overdoses than a combination of gun homicides and car crashes. At least 1,000 people receive […]

04/26/2016 / By D. Samuelson

Health conscious hypocrisy: FDA now wants their FDA-approved gateway drugs to come with ‘addiction’ and ‘death’ warning labels

I know people who suffer with severe unrelenting pain. People for whom the only relief is an opiate medication. But not all pain is equal. In the last decade millions have been prescribed OxyContin for a myriad of less intensive pain problems — while being told it was less addictive than other opiates. In 2007, Purdue Pharma paid $654 million for those […]

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