Purdue Update
It’s clear Purdue execs knew far more about the dangers of Oxycontin than they were willing to acknowledge. They may simply have lied about it...
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Booze-Opioid Connection
After the third incident, the doc gave him an ultimatum – either get help or face a taper off the program.
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Opioids in the Era of Covid-19
I don’t think anybody, including me, realized 7 or 8 years ago just how intimately involved Big Pharma and its offshoots were in the phenomenal escalation of drug abuse in West Virginia.
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Undercounted
Typically, the researchers report, an undercounted fatality would be a white female between the ages of 30 and 60.
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Opioid Tapering
Of more than 9000 Veterans Administration patients, only one-quarter rated their pain control with opioids as excellent or very good.
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Different Disorders?
Many of the differences in the experience of alcohol and heroin addiction are due to their respective status in the eyes of the law.
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Up to Their Old Tricks
…when push comes to shove– as it has for the Sackler family– they’re going to look hard for ways to replace the revenue they lost, and protect their personal fortunes.
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Kids Learn About Drugs
Avoid arguments about the fairness/unfairness of our drug laws. They’ve never made much sense, and they distract from the real issues.
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Painkillers, from Two Sides
Ethics never comes up. The job is to push product, and once sold, “we wash our hands of the whole thing.”
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The Ad Biz
Advertising is vulnerable to abuse. Rules are few and easy to circumvent.
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Opioids in International Relations
Voter perception and the fear of a public relations black eye is always a motivating factor in politics.
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Rogue Pharmacies
Don’t chains have quality control mechanisms to alert headquarters to abnormal patterns in prescription use?
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Drugstore Cowboy
As soon as they were feeling better, the guys would gather in the lounge to swap stories of high-level burglaries and shoplifting expeditions on a grand scale.
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