Some holistic alternatives that are playing increasingly important roles in addiction treatment.
Fentanyl now America’s deadliest drug – USA Today
Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, federal health officials announced, with more than 18,000 overdose deaths in 2016, the most recent year for which statistics are available. It’s the first time the synthetic opioid has been the nation’s deadliest drug. From 2012 to 2015, heroin topped the list. On average, in each year …
Big Pharma’s Sackler Family Linked To America’s Opioid Crisis – Stephen Colbert Video
Stephen takes a sober look at the family behind Purdue Pharma, the company that unleashed OxyContin on the world and now looks poised to make even more profit off those who have become addicted.
How some Southern California rehab centers exploit addiction
An in-depth report from the Orange County Register exploring the rehab industry and the victims of a broken system in an area known as the “Rehab Riviera”. Though many legitimate centers remain, critics and long-time insiders say a darker version of the industry is emerging, built around an illicit world of patient recruiters, fraud-driven clinics …
Rehab Marketing Tricks – NY Times
More than 200,000 people seek addiction treatment on the phone or online every month. Few of them realize that their pleas for help are a valuable commodity — one that is quietly fought over by those angling to turn a distress signal into cash. Addicts represent big money to treatment centers, which are happy to …
Rehabs dangerously under regulated – John Oliver video
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70 MILLION AMERICAN’S TAKING MIND-ALTERING DRUGS
Americas….. ‘Fastest growing drug problem’ ….. the nation undeniably suffers from a massive “substance-abuse” problem. But there is another parallel drug problem, the devastation of which is arguably just as severe and detrimental to American society as that involving illegal drugs and alcohol abuse – and some would say it’s actually worse. And that is …
Link Between Anti-Depressants and Mass Shootings?
Before the late nineteen-eighties, mass shootings and acts of senseless violence were relatively unheard of. Prozac, the most well-known SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant, was not yet on the market. When Prozac did arrive, it was marketed as a panacea for depression which resulted in huge profits for its manufacturer Eli Lilly. Of course, …
Life Expectancy Dropping due to Drug Overdoses in the USA
Health researchers have some grim news for Americans: We are dying younger, and life expectancy is now down for the second straight year — something not seen in more than half a century. One undeniable culprit is the opioid epidemic, which is cutting down young adults at alarming and increasing rates, the researchers say. ….. A second …
As more heroin is mixed with fentanyl, opioid crisis turns even deadlier
Nicole Clark’s first encounter with fentanyl-laced heroin came a decade ago, when it was a novelty in Chicago’s drug scene. What she remembers still haunts her. She snorted a small line of the drug soon after she bought it on a street corner, but before she and her friend could reach the nearby expressway for …