Tag: opioid crisis
The Big Pharma family that brought us the opioid crisis
Purdue Pharma, the drug pushers, have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, enough fatalities to decrease overall U.S. life expectancy at birth for the last two years running.
FDA’s war on kratom could worsen opioid crisis
Some scientists and advocates of kratom believe the drug is safer than opioid drugs sold in pharmacies and can help fight the pains and symptoms of opioid withdrawal.
Drug wars, missing money, and a phantom $500 million
More effective use of spreadsheets won’t solve the underlying problems of America’s wars or cure an addiction to policies that continue to fail.
Neuroscientist Dr. Carl Hart: People are dying in opioid crisis because...
Columbia University psychology and psychiatry professor Carl Hart argues that people are dying because of ignorance, not because of opioids.
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