Heroin
07/09/2018
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By S.D. Wells
Health Basics QUIZ: Which has killed more Americans, all U.S. wars put together or prescription drugs?
Which is more dangerous, fighting in a war, or returning from a war and taking experimental prescription drugs for PTSD and pain? Since the war in Afghanistan, where insidious politicians auspiciously helped opium production levels rise to astronomical rates, heroin has become the root of many prescription drugs that Americans find themselves not only addicted to, […]
05/18/2018
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By Jessica Dolores
Opioids becoming drug of choice at raves and electronic dance clubs
Besides their children’s obsession with computers, some modern-day parents must deal with another, deadlier form of addiction that may be manipulating their offspring: the overuse of opioids. A new study by the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing concluded that one in 10 electronic dance […]
10/30/2017
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By Jayson Veley
The opioid crime network exposed: Insider reveals corruption, collusion, commitment to growing the lucrative “industry” of addiction
The opioid epidemic that is currently plaguing the United States is unquestionably one of the most serious issues in the country today, taking the lives of thousands of Americans each and every year. In fact, according to PBS Frontline, the opioid epidemic is now responsible for the deaths of more than 27,000 people each year. […]
10/24/2017
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By Isabelle Z.
Lawmaker wants to legalize use of prescription painkillers for death sentences
A state senator in Maryland is now calling for lethal injection to be reinstated in the state for certain crimes, and he wants to use the same drugs that are already killing thousands of Americans each year to get the job done: heroin and fentanyl. Hartford Country Republican Senator Robert G. Cassilly would like to […]
10/03/2017
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By News Editors
Prescription opioid deaths surpass gun-related deaths… Big Pharma literally killing more people than GUNS
The opioid epidemic in America is killing more people than guns and the blame rests squarely on Big Pharma. Until 2007, the number of deaths by firearm was five times greater than those caused by overdoses, but in 2015 overdose deaths surpassed gun deaths for the first time – and it looks like the trend will […]
06/22/2017
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By Bridgette Wilcox
Baltimore drug epidemic rages on as city health officials run low on naloxone
Baltimore’s supply of the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone is running low, leaving the Maryland city to sink even deeper into a drug epidemic that has been raging for decades. City health officials have only about 4,000 doses of the drug left — a supply meant to last until May next year, BaltimoreSun.com reported. The remaining […]
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