Healing Appalachia, a music festival that raises awareness for and celebrates recovery from opioid addiction, is moving from West Virginia to eastern Kentucky this September with the fest’s co-founder Tyler Childers headlining alongside Chris Stapleton. The benefit concert will take place on Sept. 19th and 20th in Ashland, Kentucky, on …
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Cults come in many shapes, sizes and forms, not all of them involving a charismatic figurehead, secluded hideaway, or cache of weapons. Sometimes, as in Netflix’s lively new Sackler family takedown Painkiller, the angels of death are short-skirted sales reps, heroin Barbies who scream their heads off at sales “conferences” …
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An over-the-counter nasal spray version of Narcan, the medication used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, was officially approved by the Food and Drug Administration today, March 29. The move means the medication, also known as naloxone, will be available in drug stores, grocery stores, gas stations, and …
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When pharmacist Jack Korbutov opened The Art of Medicine, a Philadelphia compounding pharmacy, in September 2012, low-dose naltrexone (LDN) was among the first prescriptions he filled. Before starting his own specialty pharmacy, Korbutov had worked exclusively in traditional establishments, and had only encountered naltrexone being prescribed in 50 mg doses …
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The Biden administration proposed tighter rules for telehealth prescriptions of certain medications in an attempt to combat the country’s opioid epidemic. The Drug Enforcement Administration on Friday announced plans to reinstate federal requirements for drugs classified as controlled substances that were eased during the Covid-19 pandemic. The move would shrink …
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Donald Trump on Monday released his “Plan to End Crime and Restore Law and Order,” as he continues his quest to retake the White House in 2024. The supposedly “new plan” is largely a rehash of past policy goals — from his 2016 campaign, from his administration — including expanding …
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Addiction comes at a cost in more ways than one. In a New York Times interview about his forthcoming memoir about his sobriety journey, Friends star Matthew Perry revealed the cost of having spent more than half of his life checking in and out of treatment centers and sober living …
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Back in 2018, Matthew Perry spent several months in a hospital, saying only at the time that he suffered a gastrointestinal perforation. Now, in a new interview with People ahead of the publication of his new memoir, the Friends star explains that during that hospital stay, he nearly died after …
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A group of Republican senators has released a video warning parents that Mexican drug cartels have begun targeting children by disguising fentanyl as candy, despite actual experts claiming its bogus. The public service announcement, a portion of which was aired on Fox News Friday morning, said that “by working together …
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Purdue Pharma, the behemoth pharmaceutical company owned by the Sackler family, is offering to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits related to the opioid crisis for somewhere between $10 and $12 billion, NBC News reports. That figure comes on the heels of mediations between Purdue’s legal team and that of the …
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