Tag Archives: social justice

Source: How Joe Biden’s Policies Made the Opioid Crisis Harder to Treat|PoliticoOriginally published May 23rd 2019 For decades, he promoted the War on Drugs. Now, experts say Biden’s laws ended up worsening the opioid epidemic in the very places he says he can win in 2020.By ZACHARY SIEGEL In April, ...

Source: The opioid epidemic’s first corporate casualty may be a drugmaker that helped fuel the crisis|the Star.com Sitting in a Boston courtroom in a dark, pinstriped suit, the former top sales executive at Insys Therapeutics Inc., Alec Burlakoff, listened as federal prosecutors read out crimes he and the company had allegedly ...

Source: The Other Side of the Opioid Epidemic: Chronic Pain Patients|the Fix.com “It is borderline genocide,” said DeLuca, 37. “You are allowing [chronic pain patients] to go home and essentially suffer until they kill themselves.” Last year, Lauren DeLuca went to the emergency room in the middle of the night, ...

Source: What I saw in a day on the Downtown Eastside shocked me|The Globe & Mail How have we let things go so wrong for Canada’s roughest neighbourhood? It’s just another day on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A young man sits on the wet sidewalk, his legs spread wide, sucking the smoke ...

Source: My Year On Death Row|National Post Originally published August 23, 2018 Inside Canada’s ‘other opioid epidemic’ — patients cut off from medical painkillers By Dawn Rae Downton Illustrations by Mike Faille It started in my feet, which ached constantly whether I wore flats, heels, trainers, or went barefoot. Physiotherapy and orthotics? ...

Source: How the war on drugs fueled the fentanyl crisis|The Guardian Originally published on August 29th 2017 The campaign to cut off heroin supplies has encouraged the growth of labs producing the opioid. We need to instead embrace a public health approach A staggering 59,000 people died of drug overdose in 2016 according to ...