GRAVEYARDS REJOICE – July 25, 2025 – The day before the bill passed the House, a group of researchers sent…
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PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION – July 18, 2025 – The Republican tax bill signed into law earlier this month could result…
NOT QUAALUDES? – July 18, 2025 – Dr. Karla issued more than 30,000 prescriptions for oxycodone to over 1,500 different…
AUDIO – MOTHER TERESA OF ADDICTS – July 18, 2025 – Like many young doctors, Melody Glenn wasn’t getting much…
PRISON DOCTOR NOW – June 13, 2025 – Dr. Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor was convicted in March on 24 counts of…
VIDEO – LITTLE PHARMA CAN SUCK TOO – June 17, 2025 – Attorneys say Strickland filled four prescriptions in just…
VIDEO – NEVER ENOUGH – June 16, 2025 – Purdue introduced OxyContin, a brand name of oxycodone, in the 1990s and…
THEY KILL YOU – June 5, 2025 – Overdoses and drug poisonings are now the third leading cause of death…
CRAZY WORLD – May 2, 2025 – The massive national effort to return the Medicaid enrollment process to its pre-pandemic…
VIDEO – UNBELIEVABLE – April 25, 2025 – Host Robert Scheer dives into a critical discussion with Dr. Charles LeBaron,…
IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD – April 30, 2025 – The study included 160 individuals with chronic pain — both…
BAD BOY – April 16, 2025 – A former Grantham physician was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and…
WTF? – April 17, 2025 – Tech out of the University of Vermont Medical Center is helping babies suffering from…
WHATEVER WORKS – April 16, 2025 – Over 10 years, Schaefer had tried recovering from what began with dependence on…
HOW DO THEY SCORE? – March 6, 2025 – A simple handheld device, only powered by a 9-volt battery, is…
TOO SAD – March 6, 2025 – Tears welled in Rich Scheib’s eyes as he thought of his son, Wade,…
WATCH – NEVER ENOUGH – March 9, 2025 – With Ryan Hampton! Cecilia Vega investigates how the Purdue Pharma opioid…
LABELS – Feb. 25, 2025 – Sublocade lets people get the injection after just one dose of buprenorphine (taken under…
VIDEO – SAY WHAT? – Feb. 24, 2025 – The bill is intended to outlaw stand-alone methadone clinics. He says…
VIDEO – NO PAIN NO GAIN? – Feb. 12, 2025 – It’s the first new type of painkiller in 20…
CONSPIRACY? – Feb. 19, 2025 – France was one of the first countries to most fully exploit the drug’s potential.…
VIDEO – January 23, 2025 – Purdue, under the leadership of the Sackler families, invented, manufactured and aggressively marketed opioid products for…
MURDERERS? – Jan. 17, 2025 – Filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the complaint says…
OM – ORIGINAL MAMAS – Nov. 20, 2024 – On White Earth Reservation in northeastern Minnesota, a culturally specific treatment…
NEW BOOK! READING MATTERS – Nov. 15, 2024 – “This is a pointed and urgent challenge not just for those…
LIKE MAGIC – Oct. 18, 2024 – The trial, led by Imperial College London, will focus on whether psilocybin –…
AUDIO – A KILLER PILL – Oct. 26, 2024 – The film begins with attorney Paul Farrell Junior giving a…
READING MAKES YOU SMARTER – Oct. 18, 2024 – The opioid crisis and the punitively high cost of insulin seem…
DO NO HARM INDEED – Oct. 18, 2024 – Paul Volkman operated two pain clinics in southeastern Ohio and was…
AUDIO – STILL TOO MANY – Oct. 9, 2024 – Drug overdose deaths nationwide are down 10% compared to last…