From Houston to Honolulu and San Diego to Sioux Falls, methamphetamines are the number cause of drug overdose deaths. According to a report released on October 25 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
It’s getting hot in Cleveland as drug retailers attempt to disqualify a judge presiding over a major opioid trial set to begin in a matter of days. Eight drug retailers, including CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and ...
As big pharma faces a mountain of opioid lawsuits, one novel solution is to join Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy proceedings. Just two weeks after the famed Sackler family’s Purdue Pharma filed bankruptcy, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & ...
As the Obama administration worked to develop national prescribing standards that discouraged the use of addictive opioid painkillers, Purdue used third-party groups to undermine the effort. (By Andrew Perez and Lee Fang, MapLight) Purdue Pharma, ...
For years large amounts of money were transferred out of Purdue Pharma to mysterious offshore accounts – was the company and the Sackler family hiding their money, knowing their day in court would come? Purdue ...
Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and fellow pharmaceutical companies are all looking to make billion-dollar settlement deals over their role in the opioid epidemic. Reuters was able to independently verify an NBC report regarding Purdue Pharma ...
“Defendants made substantial payments of money to a variety of different pain advocacy groups and organizations that influence prescribing physicians and other health care professionals.” “In a landmark decision, an Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered ...
The nation’s largest opioid distributors, their subsidiaries, and employees gave more than $23 million in campaign contributions to federal candidates over the last decade. (By Frank Bass, MapLight) Even as an epidemic of painkiller abuse ...
Ninety percent of the money spent by the Portuguese government on issues related to drug use is spent to increase access to treatment and rehabilitation and to fund harm reduction programs. The opioid epidemic in ...
“I think it’s fair to characterize Johnson & Johnson as a kingpin in our opioid crisis.” Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the pharmaceutical company famous for its family-friendly image, is combating a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit from the ...
“But we got a second problem in this country and it’s greed. People didn’t get addicted all on their own, they got a lot of corporate help. They got a lot of help from corporations ...
Due to the opioid-like properties of Kratom, it is currently under investigation and is being considered a “drug of concern.” Kratom is the new hip thing across America among youth as well as addicts in ...
“This lawsuit contains detailed allegations about the Sackler family and their attempt to hide the vast fortunes they collected at the expense of actual lives.” In the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors began to ...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is stepping down after less than two years in office – a move that came as a surprise to his supporters and his critics. The 46-year-old Scott ...
Can one family singlehandedly create a national opioid epidemic? Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family came close. If you’re a keen observer at the Guggenheim Museum or the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan ...
It’s quintessential for us to spread awareness and cease the criticizing conversations. According to the National Safety Council, just released statistics reveal that the lifetime odds of death are more likely to occur by accidental opioid ...
One of the many reasons President Trump is advocating for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico is because he believes that a border wall will help stop the flow of illicit opioids into ...
Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. “Rene Markoff has spent the past several years wondering how she could have helped her daughter overcome her drug addiction. ...
As time goes on, the opioid epidemic is only getting worse. Opioids were involved in 47,600 overdose deaths in 2017, meaning opioids were responsible for 67.8% of all fatal overdoses last year. More terrifying is ...
“An opioid that is a thousand times more powerful than morphine is a thousand times more likely to be abused and a thousand times more likely to kill,” – MA Senator Ed Markey. Despite the ...
In today’s hyperpartisan atmosphere, the opioid crisis may be the one issue both parties can work together on. In 2017, opioid overdose deaths totaled more than the number of people killed in the entire Vietnam ...
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions together with U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Justin Herdman, announced last week the arrest of one of the most prolific dark net fentanyl vendors in the world, as a ...
A harrowing scene unfolded in New Haven, Connecticut last week when 100 people overdosed on some form of K2, regularly and inaccurately called synthetic marijuana. While New Haven officials were responding to some 76 people, ...
Singer Demi Lovato has broken her silence since she came close to death after an overdose weeks ago that had fans concerned for the pop star. In an emotional Instagram message on Sunday, the 25-year-old ...
U.S. health officials call the opioid crisis the worst public health crisis in American history. Deaths from opioid drug overdoses have quadrupled in the last 20 to 30 years. In fact, there are more opioid ...
How one online pharmacy safety organization is partnering to combat the opioid addiction epidemic. Where there is a demand, there will be supply, and as the cost of healthcare and prescriptions has risen, the industry ...
On May 29, President Trump said during a campaign rally in Nashville, Tennessee, that opioid-related deaths have dropped and implied it was due to the $6 billion his administration committed to fighting the epidemic. But ...
Suboxone is a drug treatment for addiction to opioids. A visit to the suboxone.com website shows pictures of caring doctors and the “we’re here to help” mantra. It’s all well and good, but the big ...
Hedge Clippers, an organization dedicated to exposing the political and economic havoc wreaked by hedge funds and billionaires on the American people, has released a new report titled Hedge Papers No. 57: Stopping the Opioid ...
Opioids are in the headlines again as drug company, Insys Therapeutics, faces another accusation of fraudulent marketing and bribing doctors. New York has become the latest state to take legal action against Insys Therapeutics. Eric ...
Opioid drugs and the games big pharma plays. Paul Wright, in treatment for opioid addiction in June 2017 at the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic in Youngstown Ohio, shows a photo of himself from 2015, when ...
One Staten Island doctor and two accomplices arrested in 4 year long opioid pills operation. A 72 year old doctor, Dr. David Taylor of Staten Island, NY was arrested for allegedly running a pill mill ...
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