Fentanyl on Social Media
In COVID terms, it’s as contagious as omicron, as fatal as delta. And targeted at the young, making use of their favorite platforms.
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Drugstore Drama
…they’ll argue that since the doctors wrote the prescriptions, there’s no way the pharmacists could be expected to refuse them.
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More Weird Cannabis Stories
Something’s obviously going on with people’s central nervous systems and/or gastrointestinal tracts, but nobody seems to have a clear picture of what that might be.
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“Omar coming”
Michael K. Williams’ death came years later, but was equally unglamorous. Unintentional, the result of a combination of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and p-fluorofentanyl, an analog most people have never heard of.
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Sad Sacklers
It’s a strategy we’ve seen employed again and again in recent years – total denial of responsibility as a first line of defense, not the last.
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It’s Back – GHB
Now this really sounds like what we heard from Purdue Pharma in the early days of the Oxycontin epidemic.
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Misinformation can be pandemic too
Will we at some point begin to see people arrive in treatment programs primarily to deal with their own harmful, possibly obsessive-compulsive relationship with social media?
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A Bad Night in Minneapolis
Our alternative is to increase and lengthen our sentences for people who have serious drinking problems, and so far the Legislature hasn’t been willing to do that, and I’m not sure society wants a person — even if they have their second or third DWI — to be put in prison for 25 years.
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The Opioid Trials Continue
Instead, they seem to rely on deep pockets, sophisticated lobbying, and battalions of attorneys to absorb the penalties and minimize the damage done to those profits.
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That Minneapolis Case
However, as we all know by now, things can change once an issue is in front of judge and jury.
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Those Sneaky Conspiracy Theories
It’s not one or the other, it’s about the synergy between them– toxic ideas, with a platform that allows them to spread.
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Prescription for Violence
I heard one man exclaim in a packed hospital waiting room. “It’s her damn job. She took an oath.” I was struck by his sense of entitlement. And I could envision how, enhanced by withdrawal and desperation, it could turn violent.
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Settling Up: The Opioid Lawsuits
Purdue hired them to show the company how to survive and even grow richer in the teeth of the worst drug epidemic in US history – one where the company’s products played a key role. They did their job all too well.
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