Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, federal health officials announced, with more than 18,000 overdose deaths in 2016, the most recent year for which statistics are available. The overprescription of opioids is leveling off, but deaths continue rising, says Dr. Marc Fishman of the Maryland Treatment Centers. He talks about addiction, treatment and ...

Stephen takes a sober look at the family behind Purdue Pharma, the company that unleashed OxyContin on the world and now looks poised to make even more profit off those who have become addicted.

An in-depth report from the Orange County Register exploring the rehab industry and the victims of a broken system in an area known as the "Rehab Riviera". Though many legitimate centers remain, critics and long-time insiders say a darker version of the industry is emerging, built around an illicit world of patient recruiters, fraud-driven clinics ...

More than 200,000 people seek addiction treatment on the phone or online every month. Few of them realize that their pleas for help are a valuable commodity — one that is quietly fought over by those angling to turn a distress signal into cash. Addicts represent big money to treatment centers, which are happy to ...

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Americas..... ‘Fastest growing drug problem’ ..... the nation undeniably suffers from a massive “substance-abuse” problem. But there is another parallel drug problem, the devastation of which is arguably just as severe and detrimental to American society as that involving illegal drugs and alcohol abuse – and some would say it’s actually worse. And that is ...

Before the late nineteen-eighties, mass shootings and acts of senseless violence were relatively unheard of. Prozac, the most well-known SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant, was not yet on the market. When Prozac did arrive, it was marketed as a panacea for depression which resulted in huge profits for its manufacturer Eli Lilly. Of course, ...

Safety fears over new drugs Nearly one-third of drugs cleared by the Food and Drug Administration are later flagged for serious safety issues, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a review of 222 drugs approved by the FDA from 2001 to 2010, scientists found that 71 were later flagged for safety issues that resulted in a ...

Nicole Clark's first encounter with fentanyl-laced heroin came a decade ago, when it was a novelty in Chicago's drug scene. What she remembers still haunts her. She snorted a small line of the drug soon after she bought it on a street corner, but before she and her friend could reach the nearby expressway for ...