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Death by Neglect: Addicts Dying From Withdrawal in Police Custody Author: Justin Mckibben Drug addiction kills every day, in fact every hour over a dozen people in this country alone lose their lives to drugs or alcohol, and while the circumstances may vary the outcome is always the same- devastated... Learn More

California Joins States Considering Safe Injection Sites Author: Justin Mckibben Yes, I’m bringing this topic to the table once again because now the trend is starting to pick up the pace and it has me curious. The past two months I have written a few stories on... Learn More

15 Dead in 24 Hours from Pure Heroin Author: Justin Mckibben As if you haven’t heard about this before, and if you haven’t I’d hate to be the one to show you the writing on the wall, the heroin and opiate epidemic in America has claimed an insurmountable... Learn More

Big Pharma Hiding Anti-Depressants Relation to Suicide Epidemic? [caption id="attachment_19125" align="aligncenter" width="380"] (This content is being used for illustrative purposes only; any person depicted in the content is a model)[/caption] Author: Justin Mckibben While the nation seems to have recognized the looming threat of an opiate epidemic that... Learn More

Black Balloon Day Raises Drug Overdose Death Awareness [caption id="attachment_19116" align="aligncenter" width="454"] (This content is being used for illustrative purposes only; any person depicted in the content is a model)[/caption] Author: Justin Mckibben Overdose death has become one of the most terrible realities most Americans have had to... Learn More

Should Selling Prescription Pills Be Considered Murder? Author: Justin Mckibben A while back I posed the question- should heroin overdoses be counted as homicides, and how should the people who sell heroin to those who over dose and die be prosecuted? Some people already follow the belief... Learn More

Overdose Deaths in America Higher Than Ever Author: Justin Mckibben This is the kind of thing it is hard enough to read… and even more difficult to write. I have written several articles in the past year about the outbreak of overdose deaths in America. I’ve written... Learn More

FDA Officially Approved Narcan Nasal Spray Author: Justin Mckibben We got a piece of exciting news this week that may help send the struggle with opiate addiction in America in a different direction. The opiate outbreak fueling the overdose death epidemic in America has been driven... Learn More

Hero Doctor Pays Out of Pocket to Save Addicts with Naloxone Author: Justin Mckibben The scary reality we face today, among many other things, is that more than 44,000 people die from overdoses every year in the United States. Most of these deaths are from opioids such as pain medications and heroin, and between the... 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

Thailand’s “Vomit Temple” Offers Free Treatment for Drug Addicts Author: Shernide Delva There’s a temple called Wat Thamkrabok in Thailand that operates as a no-cost drug rehabilitation center. The temple, run by Buddhist monks, has garnered the name “Vomit Temple” and it’s not for the faint of heat. Every... 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

Death by Neglect: Addicts Dying From Withdrawal in Police Custody

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