Category: Opioids

This Southern Gothic story has enough tragedy to shake Shakespeare. It’s also got enough blood. Are opioids behind the double murder suicide?

The Sackler family commited nothing less than mass murder, yet they’re getting nothing more than a proverbial slap on the wrist. Why?

Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain adroitly chronicles the rise and (relative) fall of the prescription drug-pushing Sackler Family.

Gone are the days when West Coast heroin addicts could rely upon the (relative) safety of Black Tar. Long gone.

The Crime of the Century should be prescribed viewing for every doctor, politician and government official in the country. Because then and only then will we be sure they see just how the system gets completely corrupted. They’ll also learn how the corruption leads to utter catastrophe.