Accused of bribing doctors to prescribe a spray version of the opioid fentanyl intended to treat cancer pain, often to patients without cancer… Subsys is meant to provide pain relief to cancer patients who are going through particularly excruciating pain episodes. It’s reserved for these neediest of patients due to its potency and addictive qualities.…
After sexual violence left her struggling with PTSD, Egbert said, “mushrooms gave me the feeling that I’m worth something. It’s like a restart.” And when Egbert started reaching out across Colorado in recent weeks, she was in for a surprise. Turns out, her group wasn’t the only one working toward a vote on mushrooms. There…
‘You can’t stop it so what you have to do is regulate the use.” ‘If they had known it was however strong; had they known it was 80mg in that particular pill for instance, they might have taken one or two. There’s no way they would have taken the whole lot.’ What he is proposing…
*A comparison of the constant U.S. federal prison population and constant federal debt (in constant 2013 dollars) from the 1940s to 1980, and the dramatic increase in both from 1980 to 2012. There is no causality connecting them other than that they are both caused by the policies of the federal government during those two…
Among other things, [DuPont] proposed [is] giving doctors the authority to compel suspected substance abusers into treatment against their will. Once in treatment, patients could face as much as five years of monitoring, including random drug tests … [The proposal] is part of a plan to expand the use of drug-testing technology to root out…
All told, since 2007, some 200,000 Mexicans have been killed in the “drug war.” It’s a war against environmentalists, too: In January, an indigenous anti-deforestation activist, Isidro Baldenegro López, who won the Goldman Environmental Prize—the same award given to Honduran activist Berta Cáceres before her murder—was executed in Chihuahua. “At least 104 journalists have…
In order to do this, a large portion of my life had to go underground. It is only after retiring from active university service in 2011 that I [felt] free to speak openly about this hidden side of my life, bringing the two sides of my life together. My university has not been aware of…
Now, thanks to the fact that [he] inadvertently showed an agenda for the meeting to a TV camera that was in the room to capture introductions … we know what the prohibitionists discussed in secret after reporters were kicked out. The document appears to read … Agenda / Bertha Madras: Marijuana is not a substitute for…
“It’s important to realize that thousands of people who were formerly using opioids — either for pain or because they were addicted — have transferred to kratom … and now are off opioids,” Dr. Henningfield said. But at this point many are terrified of losing that lifeline, he added … “People are choosing kratom over…
Just this year alone, more than a dozen states and 100 counties have sued drug companies for deceptive marketing of painkillers to pain patients, downplaying the risks … Some doctors are abruptly ending prescriptions [of opiates they previously prescribed] even when patients have been stable on high doses for years, throwing them into withdrawal —…
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