Tag: Opioids

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

Did the American Medical Association downplay the risk of opioid addiction? Its Purdue-backed teaching tool says Yes — and worse.

What goes in, must come out. We’ve got waterways of addicted fish to prove it. Too bad we don’t have an addiction treatment plan to save ’em.

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

Akron has a drug problem. A big drug problem. In fact, the city has seen a 140% increase in drug overdose deaths so far this year. Blame Covid. Blame fentanyl. Or blame the still lingering opioid epidemic. Better yet, blame all three. Because it’s undoubtedly all three that are combining to make Akron #1 in the drug death charts.