The opioid crisis has become a significant public health emergency for many Americans, especially for millennials, so much so that one out of every five deaths among young adults is related to opioids, suggested a new report. The study is called “The Burden of Opioid-Related Mortality in the United States,” published Friday in JAMA. Researchers […]
How Mexican Cartels Turned Minnesota into a Meth Hub…
Somewhere along his path to a better life in the U.S., William De Roo-Ramirez found himself hauling carloads of meth up to Minnesota for one of the same drug cartels that wrought horror back in his home country of Mexico. The job paid well — promising as much as $20,000 for each delivery — and […]
America’s Prescription Drug Epidemic: “Making Us Sicker”…
The United States has one of the highest rates in the world of prescription drug use, especially for the psychiatric and anti-anxiety drug classes: 1 in 6 Americans takes a psychiatric drug; Over a 130,000 U.S. toddlers, children between zero and five years of age, are prescribed addictive anti-anxiety drugs including the wildly-addictive and difficult […]
The Silence Of The Skripals – Government Blocks Press Reports – Media Change The Record…
There has been no recent reporting on the Skripal case in which a British-Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned in Salisbury, England. There even seem to be attempts to change the public record of the case. The British government alleged that the Skripals were poisoned by Novichok, a deadly nerve agent, and blamed […]
The UK Government’s Skripal Conspiracy Theory – or The Art of Holding a Mass of Contradictory Thoughts in Your Head…
Probable Western Responsibility for Skripal Poisoning…
STUDY: Opioid Crisis Caused Almost 1 Million to Miss Work, Cost $700B…
The opioid addiction crisis caused nearly 1 million to be absent from the workforce in 2015, a new study says. The American Action Forum, a right-leaning think tank, released a study on Tuesday that revealed 919,400 people between the ages of 25 to 54 were not in the labor force due to opioid use. Additionally, […]
Justice Department to Target Opioid Manufacturers, Distributors in New Push to Curb Deadly Epidemic…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that a new task force would target drug manufacturers and distributors for their roles in the opioid epidemic, raising the possibility of filing criminal charges against them. The Justice Department also said it would file a statement of interest in hundreds of lawsuits against drug companies brought by cities, […]
“America Uses 30x More Opioids Than Is Medically Necessary for a Population Its Size”…
Perhaps America does not need Russia to “hack its democracy” and destroy “American exceptionalism”, perhaps the US is perfectly capable of unleashing social, economic and political devastation within its border without anyone’s help; perhaps the surge in mass shootings has little to do with gun availability (see homicides in Chicago and Baltimore where guns are […]
Opioid Crisis Cost the U.S. $1 Trillion Since 2001, And It’s Getting Worse…
The opioid crisis cost the U.S. economy more than $1 trillion from 2001 to 2017 and is expected to cost an additional $500 billion by 2020, according to Altarum, a nonprofit health research and consulting institute. The annual cost of the crisis ballooned from $29.1 billion in 2001 to roughly $115 billion in 2017. Altarum […]
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