Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Joey Garrison, May 2, 2019, USAToday.com BOSTON — The billionaire founder of the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics and four other top executives were found guilty on Thursday in a scheme involving bribes and kickbacks to physicians who prescribed large amounts of a fentanyl spray to patients who didn’t need the painkiller. After 15 days of […]
First Drug Execs Charged for Role In Opioid Epidemic “Today’s charges should send shock waves throughout the pharmaceutical industry.” Kristin Houser, Futurism, April 24, 2019 httpss://tinyurl.com/y4dfyxd3 Price to Pay On Tuesday, federal prosecutors filed criminal charges relating to opioid distribution against one of the United States’ 10 largest pharmaceutical distributors and two of its executives, […]
Andrew’s espousal of UBI will certainly forward the idea, thrusting it onto the national stage. It’ll be interesting to see if either of the two major parties picks it up. If they don’t, not to worry: After the Reval, the Michaelangelo Fund will. And the national debt and universal medicare. Dream big. Presidential Candidate Andrew […]
By Helen Redmond, Filter, March 27, 2019 httpss://filtermag.org/2019/03/27/beyond-purdue-our-deadly-unlearned-lessons-from-the-overdose-crisis/amp/ There is a profound moment in the film And The Band Played On, about the early days of the US AIDS epidemic. Dozens of AIDS activists attend a raucous public hearing between the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the owners of blood banks. The CDC presents […]
Hundreds of cities, counties and Native American tribes file federal lawsuit against Sackler family over opioid crisis By Ralph Ellis and Melanie Schuman, CNN, March 24, 2019 httpss://www.cnn.com/2019/03/24/health/sackler-lawsuit/index.html (CNN) More than 600 cities, counties and Native American tribes from 28 states have filed a federal lawsuit against eight members of the Sackler family — owners […]
By John Kurucz, Vancouver Courier, March 9, 2018 httpss://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2018/03/09/city-calls-decriminalization-possession-drugs/ A policy shift that’s unprecedented in Vancouver’s recent past has the city calling for the decriminalization of possession for all drugs. That point was somewhat buried in a city-issued news release Friday afternoon that indicated a steady uptick in overdose deaths since October. Among the city’s […]
Critics’ worst fears of Portugal’s 17-year-old policy — that drug addiction and use would increase — have not been realized. By Carmen Lansdowne, United Church Observer, February 2019 httpss://www.ucobserver.org/columns/2019/02/why_ canada_should_decriminalize_drugs/ The decriminalization of drugs is a hot-button issue. Those who aren’t on the front lines of responding to addiction and the opioid crisis often have […]
The opioid crisis has not stopped. While there are glimmers of hope — destigmatization, the banning of Fentanyl from the dark web, more services for those addicted — there is still much to do. Opioid Overdoses Killed More Than 1,000 Canadians in the First Quarter of 2018 By Leslie Young, Global News, September 18, 2018 […]
httpss://voiceoffreedom.ca/a-door-to-everything-society/ A Door To Everything Society is a group of women that came together just over two years ago, concerned about the addiction issues young people face with drugs and alcohol nowadays. On the board of the Society, in the picture above from left to right, are Jayne De’Ath, me (Kathleen Willis), Linda Marshall, and Kim […]
