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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 […]

02/06/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

WA city taking OxyContin drug maker to court over “gross negligence, creating a public nuisance, and other misconduct”

City lawyers in Everett, Washington are preparing to sue the makers of OxyContin, a leading opioid painkiller, blaming it for its role in the United States’ opioid and heroin epidemic. The city filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma claiming they knew the drug was being illegally trafficked to residents and did not act to stop […]

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 […]

03/14/2016 / By D. Samuelson

These 5 popular prescription drugs could be replaced with medicinal marijuana

That pharmaceutical drugs are labeled “popular” belies a tragic commentary on the success of death merchants promoting their womb to tomb toxic concoctions. These sample poisons arrive on the shelves via targeted media and promotional campaigns, aided by a well-oiled pipeline of white washed sepulchers posing as physicians. But here’s the good news: a national trend of recognizing and delivering the healing powers of herbs is underway. […]

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