Posts Tagged ‘opioid’

Teamsters Union Claims Big Win vs. Largest Opioid Distributor

Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. WASHINGTON (PAI) — In what is a big win for shareholder activism, and in particular for Teamsters Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall, stockholders in the nation’s largest opioid distributor, McKesson, voted down […]

FDA Loyalty to Big Pharma Exposed in Move to Ban Plant that’s CURING Opioid Addiction

Matt Agorist, GuestWaking Times Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the government’s own account of nationwide drug deaths to cover all of 2016. The vast majority of those deaths are from opioid-based substances such as fentanyl, heroin, and prescription opioids. Now, a natural plant that is helping people kick […]

Opioid Prescription Drug Deaths Dwarf Shooting Deaths, Yet No Call To Ban Big Pharma

Natural News| Americans continue to mourn the dozens of people who were killed and hundreds wounded by a crazed lunatic in Las Vegas on Sunday, and as is usually the case when guns are involved in a mass murder incident, the usual suspects are once more calling for gun bans. “Nowhere but America do horrific large-scale mass […]

‘Don’t Do Drugs:’ Inmate Dies From Opioid Withdrawal Under Controversial ACH Program

The family of a deceased man who was incarcerated at Kentucky’s Bourbon County Jail has filed a federal lawsuit against the county, jail officials, and the private medical contractor Advanced Correctional Healthcare. They allege “deliberate indifference” was shown to the man’s “obviously serious medical needs,” as he suffered from opioid withdrawal. Shannon Bowles was arrested […]

Meet the Billionaire Family Who Sparked America’s Opioid Crisis

Renegade Editor’s Note: Why won’t ZeroHedge just come out and report that the Sackler family is jewish? The Forward recently ran a story on The Jewish Family Making Billions From The Opioid Crisis. Also, it should be noted that White people have been most heavily affected by the opioid plague, as they have been most heavily […]

GOP senators pushing for alternatives to deadly, addictive opioid prescription drugs… but none of them dare say "cannabis"

(Natural News) In the aftermath of President Trump’s recent speech on the opioid epidemic in America, a number of Republican senators have issued a call for the discovery of new opioid “alternatives,” demanding that Big Pharma step up to procure them. But such alternatives already exist in the form of natural plants like cannabis sativa […]

Proof of illegal kickbacks: Doctor admits he was compensated by opioid manufacturer for issuing unnecessary prescriptions

(Natural News) A Rhode Island-based physician has recently admitted to participating in a fraudulent scheme and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to illegally prescribe fentanyl, a highly-addictive opioid. A Reuters report has revealed that Dr. Jerrold Rosenberg, 36, has pleaded guilty before the U.S. District Court in Providence on grounds of health care fraud and […]

14 years of rising opioid deaths in Colorado REVERSED after marijuana was legalized

(Natural News) As the country and lawmakers in Washington continue to debate the merits (and legality) of marijuana, the state of Colorado has made a startling discovery: The quasi-legalization of recreational pot use there has had a dramatically positive effect on the rate of opioid deaths. As reported by Reason Magazine, since the legalized sale […]

Insider Reveals How the Opioid Crime Network Operates

Jon Rappoport, GuestWaking Times PBS Frontline (2/23/2016): “The opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis in American history…with overdoses from heroin and other opioids now killing more than 27,000 people a year…” (Note: prescription opioids are now a very significant gateway-drug leading addicts into heroin.) CBS News (8/1/2017): “Nearly 92 million U.S. […]

Could medical marijuana be a solution to the opioid epidemic?

(Natural News) Medical marijuana users in Illinois report that their use of the substance to relieve pain has lessened or stopped their use of other prescription medications such as opioids, as reported by The Daily Mail. The small-scale study from DePaul University and Rush University suggests it could be a solution to the opioid crisis. […]

America’s Manufactured Opioid Crisis: Part 1 – Early History

While the brutal reality of opioid addiction shocked many Americans, flooding a country with opium products is nothing new. Source Article from http://www.renegadetribune.com/americas-manufactured-opioid-crisis-part-1-early-history/

Opioid addiction is bankrupting America, county by county, city by city… will America collapse into a narco-pharma state?

(Natural News) We’ve heard a lot about the crime and deaths caused by the opioid crisis, but what about the financial impact of it? Many small towns are struggling to cover the costs associated with the epidemic, whether it’s emergency calls, coroner bills, courtrooms, or overcrowded prisons. Reuters recently examined the case of Ross County, […]

America’s Opioid Epidemic Is Killing So Many People That Medical Examiners Can’t Keep Up With The Body Count

The numbers of Americans dying from the escalating opioid epidemic are skyrocketing so quickly that local medical examiners now have a backlog of autopsy cases that will stretch into next year. As reported by the U.K.’s Daily Mail, the seemingly uncontrollable rise in opioid addiction is taxing the services of local medical examiners to the […]

Opioid epidemic causing rise in hepatitis C infections and other serious illnesses

Thomas J. Stopka (TC) : Many Americans now know that, over the past decade, opioid addiction and deaths from opioid overdose in the U.S. […]

CVS Will Now Limit Opioid Prescriptions to 7 Days

CVS Pharmacy will limit opioid prescriptions to a seven-day supply for certain conditions, becoming the first national retail chain to restrict how many pain pills doctors can give patients. This new policy means new customers with acute short-term pain will only be able to receive a week’s worth of opioid painkilers with a single prescription. […]

Will Opioid Lawsuits By County Officials Against Big Pharma Set Legal Precedent To Sue Vaccine Makers?

By Catherine J. Frompovich “They know what they’ve been doing. They’ve been misrepresenting the dangers of these dangerous addictive drugs for years.” – State Rep. Gen DiGirolamo “Those pharmaceutical companies have made billions of dollars off the deaths of our children and our loved one.” – Delaware County Councilman David White Big Pharma […]

Opioid drug manufacturer found to have repeatedly bribed doctors with lucrative kickbacks

(Natural News) If there was any lingering doubt in your mind that the major pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States are truly evil, this story should kill it once and for all. The Daily Mail recently reported that the state of Arizona is suing pharma giant Insys – manufacturer of the fentanyl-based drug Subsys – for […]

The company behind America’s opioid epidemic pleaded guilty to felony crimes a decade ago, yet is still allowed to sell products across America

(Natural News) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that nearly 150 Americans now die from a drug overdose each day. In the past decade, opioid overdoes have quadrupled, as have sales of prescription opioid painkillers. There are now more deaths attributable to drug overdoses than a combination of gun homicides and car crashes. At least 1,000 […]

After Declaring Opioid Crisis A National Emergency, Trump Sends More Troops To Guard Afghan Poppies

With last Friday’s departure of his chief strategist Steve Bannon – one of the few members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle opposed to American “empire building” — many speculated it was only a matter of time before the Trump administration took an even more hawkish turn. Less than two days later, Secretary of Defense […]

10 Shocking New Facts About the Manufactured Opioid Crisis in America

Alex Pietrowski, StaffWaking Times America has some serious problems, but public attention only seems to flow where the mainstream media goes. And while there certainly is reason to be concerned with the social turmoil and the general tenor of American society today, a far more dangerous and diabolical crisis is tearing us apart from […]

What You’re Not Being Told About Trump’s Plan to Fight the Opioid Epidemic

Renegade Editor’s Note: This author eventually gets into how the US is fueling the production of opioids, but this is really just business as usual. They create a problem by shipping in massive quantities of drugs, we react, and they offer the police state solution of more big government. By Alice Salles As he vows to […]

Watching The Hawks – Cheerleading Into War & Opioid Fallout

Watching The Hawks – Cheerleading Into War & Opioid Fallout Watching The Hawksyoutube.com On this episode of Watching the Hawks, Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace discuss the politics of warmongering. RTs Natasha Sweatte joins the show to investigate the nationwide opioid epidemic. Then, U.S. circuit court Chief Judge John Tunheim talks to Sean Stone about […]

Trailer: America’s Manufactured Opioid Crisis

Taking a break from revealing the rampant child abuse occurring at the highest levels of society, Kyle and Sinead are now putting together a documentary that reveals the big picture of the opioid epidemic. In order to understand the present predicament, we need put opioid addiction in the proper context, showing how it is being […]

Harvard Study: Big Pharma, US Gov. Behind Opioid Epidemic

A new Harvard study reveals how Big Pharma and federal government have colluded to allow the current opioid epidemic in the United States.  The study, entitled The Opioid Epidemic: Fixing a Broken Pharmaceutical Market, describes how the American public have been duped by the elites for more than 20 years. “In this article, we argue […]

Why America’s Opioid Epidemic was Maliciously Manufactured by the Criminal Cabal

So much has already been said about this issue, so I will keep this as simple as possible. If you want to dig up the details, please do so, but it should already be more than apparent that the opioid epidemic, which has been wreaking havoc across the United States and other countries in the […]

Think Tanks Want Solve the Opioid Crisis With a Military Invasion of Mexico

Isaac Davis, Staff WriterWaking Times Imagine how many lives we can save of those 500,000 Americans predicted to die because of Mexican opioids and meth. War with Mexico doesn’t sound so crazy anymore, does it? ~Matt Mayer To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, and in the face of a deadly opioid […]

The Real Cause of the Opioid Epidemic: Scarcity of Jobs and Positive Social Roles

  The employment rate for males ages 25-54 has been stairstepping down for 30 years, but it literally fell off a cliff in 2009. We all know there is a scourge of addiction and premature death plaguing the nation, a scourge that is killing thousands and ruining millions of lives: the deaths […]

Tennessee Counties Sue Opioid Makers Using Local “Crack Tax” Law

Drugs from a Pharmacy Health Shop (Photo via epSos .de/flickr) The US opioid epidemic has continued to worsen in 2017 as super-powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl and carfentanil taint the nation’s heroin supply. While the FBI’s final tally has yet to arrive, preliminary data suggest that overdose deaths last year eclipsed the 50,000 recorded nationally […]

Opioid Abuse Dramatically Decreasing In States With Legal Marijuana

Addiction to Opiates is a worldwide problem, with estimates of the number of people affected as high as 35 million people!  With opioid overdose now topping the list of top causes of death of Americans under the age of 50, the epidemic may now be the worst it has ever been in US History! A […]

FDA Calls For Opioid To Be Removed From Market Based On Risk of Abuse

The FDA has targeted the reformulated version of Opana ER, or oxymorphone hydrochloride, for market removal, calling on its manufacturer, Ireland-based Endo Pharmaceuticals, to take voluntary steps to do so. If Endo chooses not to withdraw Opana ER ‒ first approved by the FDA in 2006 – the federal agency said it would take steps to […]

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