opioid crisis
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Doctor Who Championed Opioids For Years Flips On Pharma Ghouls To Save His Own Arse
A doctor who was an early advocate for the use of opioids for the treatment chronic pain now says pharmaceutical companies pushing opioids have created an epidemic — one that kills tens of thousands of Americans each year. Of course, he’s doing it to get out of being sued.
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Opioid Maker Purdue Is Reportedly Considering Bankruptcy
The bottom may be falling out for Purdue Pharma, the drug company most synonymous with the opioid crisis. Sources reportedly told Reuters that Purdue is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a decision that would help the company better take on a growing swarm of lawsuits filed against it for deceiving the public about its highly…
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Police And Media Keep Spreading The Myth That Merely Touching Fentanyl Can Kill You
Last Saturday, police in Chico, California reported that 13 people in the same house were involved in a mass drug overdose, possibly involving the powerful opioid fentanyl, with at least one person dying as a result. The case is tragic, though some of the details reported by the Chico police and uncritically repeated by the…
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Some Dark Web Marketplaces In The UK Are Reportedly Refusing To Let Users Sell Fentanyl
The UK’s National Crime Agency—which handles organised and transnational crime—claims that at least some of the dark web drug marketplaces operating throughout the nation have voluntarily banned fentanyl, an extremely powerful synthetic opioid that (along with other similar drugs) is associated with over 28,000 deaths a year in the U.S., the Guardian reported on Saturday.…