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One type of legal drug is killing far more people than heroin — and that’s...
Heroin use in the US is skyrocketing. The number of people using this powerful, addictive drug has grown by nearly 300,000 in the past decade, and more and more people are dying from overdose.But while...
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One type of legal drug is killing far more people than heroin — and that’s...
Heroin use in the US is skyrocketing. The number of people using this powerful, addictive drug has grown by nearly 300,000 in the past decade, and more and more people are dying from overdose.But while...
View Article'Falling in love with Amy Winehouse' — the director of the hit documentary,...
The 2015 film, "Amy", based on the life of singer Amy Winehouse, has become the highest-grossing British documentary film ever. We recently sat down with the director Asif Kapadia, who discussed the...
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Drug overdoses won’t stop rising — and that’s not even the worst part
The number of deaths from drug overdoses reached a new high in 2014, totaling 47,055 people, according to a CDC report released on Tuesday.The rise in overdose deaths is being driven largely by a...
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There's a disturbing theory about why America's overdose epidemic is...
Racial stereotypes may be playing a role in the US opioid overdose epidemic, according to a leading expert on opioid addiction.The rate of white Americans dying annually from drug overdoses has roughly...
View Article'AMY’ — a shattering biographical portrait of Amy Winehouse — wins Oscar for...
The 2015 film, "Amy," based on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, became the highest-grossing British documentary film ever and has now won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. We recently...
View ArticleOscar-winning director of Amy Winehouse documentary reveals the 2 secrets...
The 2015 film, "Amy," based on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, became the highest-grossing British documentary film ever and has now won the 2016 Academy Award for Best Documentary. We...
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'Injection sites' could be the solution to America's heroin epidemic
Drugs like Suboxone, Vivitrol, and methadone have been saving people from heroin addiction for years. As the mayor of Ithaca, New York, a sleepy upstate town that faces an alarmingly high death rate...
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Here's what painkillers like Vicodin and OxyContin do to your body and brain
Despite being legal with a doctor's prescription, opioid painkillers can come with serious health risks.The drugs belong to a larger class of drugs known as opioids, which includes legal, lab-produced...
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Prince's official cause of death has been released
Prince died of an opioid overdose, the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office confirmed Thursday.The examiner's office posted the results of its invesigtation into Prince's death online.The cause of death...
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Singer who performed with Michael Jackson was with Prince when he collapsed...
Grammy Award-winning singer Judith Hill revealed that she was with Prince when he fell unconscious and was rushed to a hospital just days before he died of an accidental overdose.The two were aboard...
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Investigators found the drug that killed Prince in counterfeit pills in his...
Fentanyl, the drug that tragically killed musical genius Prince, is an opioid painkiller that's 50 times stronger than pure heroin.The drug is legal and can be prescribed by a doctor for a variety of...
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The only safe-injection site in North America says 90% of clients' heroin...
North America’s only supervised injection site for drugs like cocaine, speed and crystal meth has found that 90% of its clients’ heroin contained the powerful synthetic fentanyl.Vancouver’s Insite,...
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An Ohio police department releasing a photo of 2 people overdosing is...
I’m going to let you in on a secret: Being physically dependent on heroin isn’t fun.When I needed a fix — and when I was using, I always needed a fix — I felt as if my skin was shot through with...
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Here's the truth about whether access to medical marijuana reduces opioid...
Gut Check looks at health claims made by studies, newsmakers, or conventional wisdom. We ask: Should you believe this?The claim:When legal medical marijuana dispensaries start operating in a state,...
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The opioids of the future won't get you high (NKTR)
So far, our pharmaceutical solutions to skyrocketing overdose deaths from legal painkillers have focused on one thing: Making pain pills that are harder to abuse.With little evidence that these...
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A searing new report claims opioid drugmakers spent 8 times as much as the...
A searing new report from the Associated Press claims that the makers of opioid painkillers, the dangerous drugs at the center of the tragic overdose crisis, outspent the US gun lobby on lobbying and...
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Inside the junk-food-filled plan to turn OxyContin into a blockbuster drug
WELCH, W.Va. — The pharmaceutical sales representatives from health care giant Abbott Laboratories had a problem. No matter what they tried, they couldn’t get the attention of an orthopedic surgeon to...
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Overdoses from legal drugs are exploding — here's what they do to your brain...
Despite being legal with a doctor's prescription, opioid painkillers can come with serious health risks.The drugs belong to a larger class of drugs known as opioids, which includes legal, lab-produced...
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Prince's official cause of death has been released
Prince died of an opioid overdose, the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office confirmed Thursday.The examiner's office posted the results of its invesigtation into Prince's death online.The cause of death...
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