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Federal officials have - charged 53 medical professionals - , including 31 doctors, with illegally prescribing and distributing narcotic pain killers. The April 2019 bust, conducted by the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force, proved to be the largest takedown of “whitecoat” opioid prescribers to date. The law enforcement effort focused on states most heavily impacted by the opioid...
June 5, 2019
The opioid crisis has hit sufferers in two equally profound ways. Overprescribing, misuse and abuse have taken their toll on countless lives, with overdose death rates hitting epidemic proportions (130 per day in the U.S. alone!). But on the flip side of that coin, many doctors have become afraid to prescribe opioid pain medications at all, -causing people who are genuinely suffering to go without...
May 15, 2019
Purdue Pharma, which manufactures OxyContin and a few other opioid painkillers, has received a patent for a “new” medication to treat opioid addiction. This is in the wake of a $3.4 million donation to Harm Reduction Therapeutics, manufacturer of naloxone—or Narcan, a nasal spray used to counteract deadly overdoses. These new advances have left some consumers wondering: Have company leaders grown a...
March 4, 2019
About 130 Americans die every day of - opioid overdoses - , and the majority of them are using valid prescriptions. Despite the risks, doctors continue to over-prescribe narcotic painkillers, which creates the perfect setting for addiction and misuse. Just as concerning is the money trail that traces directly to the rates in which doctors are prescribing these powerful and highly addictive drugs. Addicts...
February 28, 2019
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