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President Obama Issues Memorandum to Combat Opioid Epidemic Author: Shernide Delva President Obama is continuing his efforts to combat the growing opioid epidemic. Just this week, Obama issued a memorandum designed to combat the opioid epidemic in the forms of prescription drug abuse and heroin use. The goal... Learn More

Safe Injection Facilities Could Prevent Heroin Overdoses [caption id="attachment_17923" align="aligncenter" width="446"] (This content is being used for illustrative purposes only; any person depicted in the content is a model)[/caption] Author: Shernide Delva Deaths from heroin overdoses continue to be a serious issue in the United States. Just... Learn More

74 Heroin Overdoses in 72 Hours! Author: Justin Mckibben As if the problem wasn't real enough, the city of Chicago was just shook up something serious by an eruption of heroin overdoses. On a list done a while back the state of Illinois statistics had shown the... Learn More

Big Pharma Still Holding Antidote to Overdose Epidemic Hostage Author: Justin Mckibben Back in March of this year I wrote about how government officials were attempting to wage war against Big Pharma’s pricing policies, specifically congressional leaders asking for a little compassion from the legal drug lords of Big... Learn More

Two Inmates Dead Due to Preventable Heroin Withdrawals Author: Shernide Delva Two Colorado inmates died while incarcerated and suffering through heroin withdrawal this year. Both were preventable. In the last decade, heroin deaths have quadrupled in the United States. Back in May, 25-year-old Taylor Tabor died in Adams County... Learn More

CDC Spending $20 Million to Fight Addiction Author: Justin Mckibben Prescription drugs such as OxyCodone and Percocet have been usual suspects involved in the opiate epidemic that has devastated the nation, while also making a crushing contribution to the overdose outbreak. It has long been established that... Learn More

How to Treat Heroin Addiction… with Stress? Author: Justin Mckibben Strange isn’t it… the title of this article. I mean, how could stress possibly be a good thing for anyone, especially someone who has a severe addiction to a substance as powerful and deadly as heroin?! What possible... Learn More

New Police Program Goes Door to Door to Help Drug Addicts [caption id="attachment_17192" align="aligncenter" width="424"] (This content is being used for illustrative purposes only; any person depicted in the content is a model)[/caption] Author: Justin Mckibben Drug addiction, and specifically heroin addiction, has plagued the country on a massive scale... Learn More

How the Internet Affected the Heroin Epidemic Author: Justin Mckibben It seems most of the nation has finally had their eyes opened to the reality of the situation, there is a very real heroin epidemic in America. This is a sometimes inconspicuous but still intense illness that affects... Learn More

Turning in Drugs for Free Treatment: New Drug Program Sees Early Success Author: Justin Mckibben A short time ago in May we reported on an amazing new program starting up in a Massachusetts town geared toward helping addicts and setting a new standard in the clash against the opiate epidemic. State officials... Learn More

Florida Passes Emergency Treatment for Opioid Overdose Act Author: Justin Mckibben New legislation is being processed and approved all over America with the intention of irradiating the increasing opioid epidemic, with officials teaming up across parties to participate in the discussion and development of initiatives to put the... Learn More

Jay from “Jay and Silent Bob” Speaks Up about Addiction [caption id="attachment_16978" align="aligncenter" width="463"] Photo Via: http://commons.wikimedia.org[/caption] Author: Justin Mckibben Have you ever seen a movie with the characters Jay and Silent Bob? If not, go watch one right now… don’t worry, I’ll wait… RIGHT?! How awesome was that?! “Ladies,... Learn More

President Obama Issues Memorandum to Combat Opioid Epidemic

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