VIDEO – HEROIN CO-STARS – Aug. 11, 2026 – Missy Mazzoli’s desire to compose an opera about the opioids epidemic…
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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…
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)…
PILL MILL PRINCESS – March 2, 2026 – A Bayside woman was sentenced to seven years in prison after operating…
FOUND MONEY LOST – Nov. 2025 – In March 2022, companies involved in the opioid crisis reached a settlement with…
MURDERERS ROW – Nov. 14, 2025 – In thousands of lawsuits, Purdue and members of the Sackler family were later…
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…
WHY? – Sept. 3, 2025 – Opioid use is a growing health problem for older adults in the U.S. Drug…
LOCK HIM UP – Sept. 2, 2025 – The pill scheme happened between at least April 2019 and January 2024.…
GRAVEYARDS REJOICE – July 25, 2025 – The day before the bill passed the House, a group of researchers sent…
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…
SCIENCE – April 10, 2025 – Investigators found that maladaptive guilt and shame were influenced more by individual characteristics than…
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…
CONSPIRACY? – Feb. 19, 2025 – France was one of the first countries to most fully exploit the drug’s potential.…