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The Jewish Family Behind the Opioid Addiction Crisis in North America

The Jewish Family Behind the Opioid Addiction Crisis in North America

by Karl Radl. A SPECTER is haunting America. The specter of opium. The form that specter is taking is that of the opiate-based painkiller OxyContin, which is distributed by a company named Purdue Pharma. There has long been a concern that OxyContin is causing an addiction time bomb in America, …
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America On Opioids: The Many Faces Of The Country’s Addiction Crisis

There were some reasons to hope things would get better: A nurse who became addicted to Percocet after knee surgery found an outpatient program that has her clean for the first time in 20 years; an east Tennessee native who used to drive several hours a day to North Carolina to get a dose of …
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‘Diseases of despair’: The roles trauma, mental illness and inequity play in the opioid crisis

Some communities face long-standing challenges that make escaping with the help of drugs and alcohol more appealing. Benjamin, chief executive of the Mille Lacs Band, says native communities have suffered from historic trauma since Europeans first colonized North America. “We have been beaten …
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Despair can play role in opioid use: Experts say trauma, mental illness, inequities all factors

American Indians are more than five times as likely to experience a fatal overdose and blacks are more than twice as likely. These disparities are some of the nation’s largest. Benjamin says economic disparities may be part of the reason her community has been ravaged by opioid addiction. On the Mille …
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Dr. Phil outed for allegedly providing drugs and alcohol to addiction victims to make his shows more entertaining

(Natural News) The list of celebrities in the doghouse continues to grow — and the latest offender is the infamous reality TV show host, Dr. Phil. The show, and others like it, have often come under fire for seemingly exploiting the plight of their guests, but reports now claim Dr. Phil and his team were… (Source: NaturalNews.com)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engin
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