EFFECTIVE PHARMACOTHERAPY – Sept. 10, 2026 – Using medicine (such as methadone) to help treat opioid addiction is called pharmacotherapy.…
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WHAT A COMEBACK – Aug. 28, 2026 – Nobody could overlook the off-the-field community work — bankrolling a college scholarship endowment,…
VIDEO – HEROIN CO-STARS – Aug. 11, 2026 – Missy Mazzoli’s desire to compose an opera about the opioids epidemic…
IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY TO THESE ANIMALS – Aug. 7, 2026 – An epidemic of opioid addiction costs the United…
GREEDY CAPITALISM KILLS – July 17, 2026 – In 1996, Purdue Pharma launched OxyContin, a potent and addictive narcotic, with…
MORE CARE- LESS DEATHS – July 6, 2026 – The county is being recognized as Florida’s top performer, after cutting…
RALPH’S JEALOUS? – July 10, 2026 – “Between 2006 and 2022, Albertsons dispensed more than 641 million opioid pills into Washington,…
REMEMBER LAWS? – May 19, 2026 – Overprescribing in problematic pain clinics is driven by profit motive, which increases when…
KEEP AN EMERGENCY STASH – April 28, 2026 – The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration works with states…
AUDIO – NO COMEDIES – April 21, 2026 – 1955 brought the two-hour film “The Man with the Golden Arm”…
WISH IT WAS TRUE – April 18, 2026 – Opioid addiction has shattered countless American lives. A near-perfect cure could…
AUDIO – NPR FRESH AIR – April 6, 2026 – They found dispensary openings in states with legal marijuana were…
BULLSHIT OR REAL? – April 6, 2026 – “Opioid pain medications are essential for medical purposes, but can lead to…
WHAT A SHAME – April 8, 2026 – Federal prosecutors said Jasveen Sangha ran a high-volume drug trafficking business out…
AUDIO – DR. FEELGOOD – April 3, 2026 – 70-year-old James Robles is accused of conspiring to illegally prescribe oxycodone,…
PROGRESS – Mar. 26, 2026 – (photo-Massapequa resident Tricia Ragusa, a mother and educator, is in recovery from opioid addiction)…
WHILE IN A HOSPITAL? – Mar. 20, 2026 – “I went through seven years of my life, wasted on opioids…
VIDEO – NEVER ENDS – Mar. 18, 2026 – RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – The City of Reno has been allocating…
PILL MILL PRINCESS – March 2, 2026 – A Bayside woman was sentenced to seven years in prison after operating…
MORE INJECTIONS TO COME – Feb. 4, 2026 – Methadone treatment for opioid use – which cuts the risk of…
VIDEO – READ AND WATCH (in English) – Jan. 12, 2026 – Yoga could cut opioid withdrawal recovery time by…
ROYAL HIGH – Dec. 18, 2025 – This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace…
FOUND MONEY LOST – Nov. 2025 – In March 2022, companies involved in the opioid crisis reached a settlement with…
WHY NOT? – Nov. 19, 2025 – We Can’t Fix the Opioid Crisis If We Don’t Know What’s Killing People.…
TUTANKHAMUN JUNKIE? – Nov. 12, 2025 – Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection…
MURDERERS ROW – Nov. 14, 2025 – In thousands of lawsuits, Purdue and members of the Sackler family were later…
SCIENCE AT ITS BEST – Nov. 13, 2025 – Scientists have uncovered a hidden mechanism in the human body that…
SO BEAUTIFUL – Sept. 30, 2025 – Afghanistan used to have the distinction of producing the opium for 95 per…
HORRIBLE – Sept. 26, 2025 – In 2023, 557 teens died of opioid overdose, nearly threefold as many as in…
BECAUSE HE’S GUILTY – Sept. 24, 2025 – Doctors could prescribe methadone for pain but needed special permission from the…