MARKETING? – March 8, 2021 – When Margaret and John Millington’s son Simon was in the grips of an opioid…
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DR. DEATH – March 4, 2021 – Blatti pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in Nassau County Court and was…
YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND? – March 2, 2021 – People who walk through the glittery door of showbiz almost always…
UNCIVIL WAR – March 3, 2021 – Jenkins, who lives in upstate New York, says her mom, Sonya Hughey, had…
ADDICTION RULES – March 2, 2021 – “The U.S. Attorney’s Office is committed to stopping drug-dealing doctors like Rodos,” said…
NOT THE SAME? – March 4, 2021 – For women, the greatest risk factors for opioid relapse were depression, more…
LOVE AND CHARITY – March 5, 2021 – They recommended another facility several hours away, but by the time they…
OXYMORONs – March 3, 2021 – According to Chesterfield Sheriff Karl Leonard, the alleged drug smugglers exploited a regulatory loophole…
WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME – Feb. 25, 2021 – During the antebellum decades, addiction to rudimentary opiates such…
FROM LOSS COMES HOPE – Feb. 26, 2021 – “As overdose cases are rapidly increasing and treatments for substance use disorders…
WORTH LIVING – Feb. 25, 2021 – Most of the roughly 13 million in that group who have been prescribed…
FENTANYL FOREVER? – Feb. 18, 2021 – Fentanyl isn’t a new substance, having first been synthesized in a lab in…
SOON FOR BABIES TOO? – Feb. 18, 2021 – The Texas startup was founded in Houston in 2018, but is…
MORE BAD NEWS – Feb. 20. 2021 – Drug overdoses of all kinds killed nearly 84,000 people in the U.S.…
WATCH – 4-20-51-50 HIIIGH-KE – Feb. 17, 2021 – The NFL finally loosened its cannabis testing policy last offseason, amid…
CRAZY TIME – FEB 12, 2021 – But Finnigan, 53, who lives in Chicago, said things changed for her in…
WATCH – NONE TOO SOON – Feb. 8, 2021 – Besides drug addictions including opioids and cocaine, the start-up offers…
$ $ $ $ $ $ – February 12, 2021 – The deductions may deepen public anger toward companies prosecutors…
BIG PHARM COMPETITION FOILED – Feb. 12, 2021 – Federal, state and local law enforcement in Adams County announced on…
by Christopher Dale WHAT A PRICE TO PAY – Feb. 16, 2021 – On Sunday, February 7, 16-year-old Samuel Chapman…
POISONED AMERICA c/o BIG PHARMA – 2020 – “I could not put down Gerald Posner’s Pharma, the definitive story of…
WATCH – YET, THERE IS SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR – Feb. 4, 2021 – They say increased isolation and…
AN INJECTION OF OPTIMISM or SAY WHAT? – February 4, 2021 – “We’ve shown it is possible to prevent these…
BOTTOM LINES KILL PEOPLE – Feb. 3, 2021 – McKinsey’s extensive work with Purdue included advising it to focus on…
LISTEN – STORMY FEBRUARY – Jan. 29, 2021 – The new administration has also appointed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra…
LISTEN – WHEN WILL IT END? – Jan. 29, 2021 – “Our country is facing many simultaneous crises and President…
WAKE AND LIVE – Jan. 30, 2021 – “Our findings suggest that higher storefront cannabis dispensary counts are associated with…
BATTLING A DEMON – Jan. 20, 2021 – Those interwoven storylines follow Dr. Tyrone Brower (Oldman), a university professor who battles…
THEM AND US – Jan. 19, 2021 – On May 23, 2019, the day my son was coming home…
ALIVE AND WELL, MAYBE? – Jan. 21, 2021 – Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, was the cause of 151 deaths in…