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Drug users on the street

UPDATE: WORD FROM THE STREET AND INSIDE – THE BUPE ECONOMY IS ABOUT ABUSE, NOT SELF-TREATMENT

February 7, 2019

Image of Vox headline about opioid treatment

HOW MEDIA FUEL WORSENING SUBSTANCE USE EPIDEMICS

January 30, 2019

Sign outside a Hazelden treatment center

ADDICTION: A COMPLEX, LIFE-THREATENING COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR WITH TREATMENT PROVIDED BY . . . . NO, SERIOUSLY

January 23, 2019

City street in drug use area

CLEAR MAP OF A DARK WASTELAND BAD MEDICINE, LETHAL CROSSROADS AND DEAD ENDS IN AMERICA’S OPIOID CRISIS

January 16, 2019

Homeless area on city street

UPDATE, OPIOID CRISIS – WORD FROM THE STREET: THE BUPE ECONOMY IS ABOUT ABUSE NOT SELF-TREATMENT

January 10, 2019

Paramedics helping a man sitting

UPDATE OPIOID CRISIS – MORE EVIDENCE POINTING TO OVERDOSE-REVERSING NALOXONE, NOT SUBSTITUTE OPIOIDS, REDUCING OD DEATHS

January 2, 2019

Hand holding Suboxone

UPDATE: MOUNTING EVIDENCE INCREASINGLY INVALIDATES FRENCH, U.S. SUBSTITUTE OPIOID MEDICAL FIX CAMPAIGNS FOR LETHAL OPIOID EPIDEMICS

December 24, 2018

News headline about quitting opioids

OPIOID EPIDEMIC: FOR WORSENING CRISIS U.S. MEDICAL SYSTEM DISPENSES ADDICTIVE, DIVERTED, ABUSED SUBSTITUTE OPIOIDS

December 21, 2018

Vivek Murthy and Joe Biden

U.S. SURGEON GENERAL ON THE OPIOID CRISIS: MEDICAL TRAINING AND PRACTICE FAILS TO PROTECT PATIENTS FROM HARM – BECAUSE BIG PHARMA MAKES US DO THINGS

December 14, 2018

Young person smoking a cigarette

UPDATE – NICOTINE LINKS YOUTH VAPING, REVERSAL OF DECLINES IN CIGARETTE SMOKING, NEW TROUBLING DIABETES TRENDS

December 6, 2018

Teen girl with cigarette

UPDATE – FRANCE JOINS U.S. AND CANADA ON THE GATEWAY LIST: AS VAPING BOOMS AMONG YOUTH, CIGARETTE USE REBOUNDING, NOT DOWN

November 28, 2018

Ad for Suboxone for opioid treatment

FOLLOWING FRENCH FAILURE, AMERICANS GET A SUBSTITUTE ADDICTIVE OPIOID AS “FIX” FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS, MARKETED AS REDUCING OVERDOSE DEATHS DOES IT?

November 27, 2018

NOW DECADES INTO THEIR LETHAL OPIOID CRISIS MEDICAL PROVIDERS ARE LEARNING AND THINKING ABOUT RISKS OF OPIOID MISPRESCRIBING

January 8, 2023 No Comments

IN ILLINOIS, A FLICKER OF HOPE FOR SUBSTANCE USE EPIDEMICS, EXTINGUISHED

January 1, 2023 No Comments

MEDICALIZATION OF CHRONIC PAIN GENERATED THE OPIOID CRISIS, NOW PERPETUATES IT

January 1, 2023 No Comments

THE TRUE FACE OF AMERICAN ADDICTION TREATMENT

December 25, 2022 No Comments

UPDATE OPIOID CRISIS: NO, METHADONE IS NOT THE NEW METHADONE

December 18, 2022 No Comments

NEW EVIDENCE: INJECTION RELATED INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCIDENCE AFFIRMS MEDICAL TREATMENT WORSENING OPIOID CRISIS

December 11, 2022 No Comments

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