A confidential government document containing evidence so critical it had the potential to change the course of an American tragedy was kept in the dark for more than a decade. The document, known as a “prosecution memo,” details how government lawyers believed that Purdue Pharma, the maker of the powerful opioid, OxyContin, knew early on …
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Recovery Advocacy Update
Startling data recently made public show the details of how pharmaceutical companies saturated the country with opioids. In the seven years from 2006 to 2012, America’s biggest drug companies shipped 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills in the United States. The result? Opioid-related deaths soared in communities where the pills flowed most. These new …
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Community: The Answer to the Opiate Epidemic
The following is taken directly from the Afterword of Sam Quinone's bestselling book "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic." You can purchase a copy of this vital publication here. BY THE TIME I BEGAN research for this book in 2012, we had, I believe, spent decades destroying community in America, mocking and clawing …
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The Worst Man-Made Epidemic in History
The following is comprised of excerpts from Sam Quinones' Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic. I want to praise Quinones for this seminal work. Personally, it has defined for me the very nightmare I, and countless others, have lived, each to his or her own level, after discovering the morphine molecule through seemingly …
Local Opioid Abuse: A Piece of the Nation’s Newest Health Crisis
By Steven Barto I am no stranger to addiction. I started drinking and getting high the summer after high school graduation. It was 1977 and pot and southern rock went hand-in-hand. I found my answer to all the anger, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and feelings of not belonging. Of course, I had no idea where it …
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