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Prescription Drugs Sending Older Adults to Hospital
Diabetes drugs and anticoagulants top the list of medications causing dangerous interactions or side effects by Cheryl Platzman Weinstock, AARP, October 29, 2021 In a recent study of emergency room visits, diabetes medications and anticoagulants, which help prevent blood clots, were found to be the leading prescription medications sending older people to the emergency room with problems …
Helping Reduce Youth Suicide Rate
Marin addresses high suicide rate Marin Suicide Prevention Hotline at 415499-1100. Marin Independent Journal, 25 Sep 2021, By Keri Brenner kbrenner@marinij.com A print of digital art submitted for a youth art exhibit about suicide prevention is shown. A disproportionately higher rate of Marin’s teens and young adults have suicidal thoughts or mental health incidents than their population …
McKinsey & Co. apologizing for role in opioid crisis
The opioid crisis has ravaged America… and in many cases destroyed lives to fill the pockets of the fat-cat drug manufacturers. Consultancy giant McKinsey & Co. is now apologizing for its role in the opioid crisis after The New York Times revealed its proposed 2017 plan to “turbocharge” OxyContin sales by giving distributors rebates for overdoses. Link to Full …
Stages Of Drug Addiction Recovery – Life Space
As an individual’s addiction worsens, its impact on them is likely to become increasingly severe. During this stage, an addict is aware of substance reliance’s adverse effects, but they continue justifying their actions. Some people might even acknowledge that they have a drug addiction that needs to be addressed and reduce the amount of substance …
Deaths in Rehab
If somebody dies, even in drug rehab, shouldn’t it be a potential crime? Activists acknowledge that drug use can be lethal. But rehabs charge huge money for safe recovery. When they fail, criminal charges are rare. With enormous hope, Gail and Warwick Dunnett sent their son Harrison — a rapper, poet and musician who struggled …
Another Southern California addiction treatment scam exposed.
Dangerous Addiction Treatment Scam 5 charged in $11.7 million Southern California addiction treatment fraud scheme. By TERI SFORZA | tsforza@scng.com and TONY SAAVEDRA | tsaavedra@scng.com | Orange County Register PUBLISHED: June 19, 2020 at 6:48 p.m. | UPDATED: June 19, 2020 at 10:25 p.m. Five more men have been charged in connection with a scheme that lured vulnerable drug users to Southern California with promises of …
What would you look like as an addict?
https://www.justthinktwice.gov/videos/squad-vlog-facing-addiction
The “Drug Czar” Says Overdose Deaths Were Already Rising Before Pandemic and Now Are Spiking—The Ultimate Blame Belongs to Prohibition
White House “drug czar” Jim Carroll told Politico earlier this week that an Office of National Drug Control Policy analysis finds an 11.4 percent year‐over‐year increase in opioid‐related overdose deaths during the first four months of 2020. Kentucky has seen a 25 percent increase in overdose deaths during the first four months of this year, and West …
Another Doctor Charged in Sober Living Fraud
California surgeon charged in $52M sober living fraud Marin Independent Journal 4 Jul 2020 The Associated Press SANTA ANA » A Beverly Hills surgeon and his girlfriend have pleaded not guilty to taking part in a $52 million insurance fraud scheme that involved recruiting patients at Southern California sober living homes to undergo unnecessary surgeries …