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Pharmaceutical companies, under Arthur Sackler’s guidance, began hiring noted doctors to vouch for their products and subsidizing studies that showed how useful their products could be. Sackler’s campaigns deluged doctors’ offices with attractive promo brochures and filled medical journals with flashy ads. The promotions sometimes played fast and loose. In 1959, one national magazine investigation found that […]
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Fake opioid addiction treatments on the rise: FDA and FTC sending stern warnings to those profiting off the illness
February 18th, 2018 
Awake Goy (Natural News) The skyrocketing number of fake opioid addiction treatments have prompted the United States Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue sharp admonishments to pharmaceutical companies that hawk such products, said a Daily Mail article. The warning comes in the wake of numerous companies rushing […]
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No Comments »President Trump targets Big Pharma price monopolies, opioid addiction in riveting State of the Union speech
January 31st, 2018 Awake Goy (Natural News) President Trump took aim at Big Pharma’s price monopolies in tonight’s State of the Union speech, promising — perhaps even threatening — to “dramatically” lower prescription drug prices in the near future. “One of my greatest priorities is to reduce the price of prescription drugs,” the President said to wide […]
Posted in World News Tags: monopolies, opioid, pharma, president, price, targets, Trump No Comments »Can We Finally Have an Honest Discussion about the Opioid Crisis?
January 29th, 2018 Awake Goy Can We Finally Have an Honest Discussion about the Opioid Crisis? By Charles Hugh Smithwashingtonsblog.com The opioid epidemic is generating a lot of media coverage and hand-wringing, but few if any solutions, and this is predictable: if you don’t face up to the causes, then you can’t solve the problem. America is steadfastly avoiding looking […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: about, crisis, discussion, finally, honest, opioid 1 Comment »Are There Parallels Between The Recognized Opioid and Ignored Vaccine Disasters?
January 22nd, 2018 Awake Goy By Catherine J. Frompovich The Philadelphia Inquirer published “Philadelphia sues opioid drugmakers over role in ‘public health nightmare’” which, ironically, can and should set legal precedent and action for similar lawsuits to be filed against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Big Pharma corporations […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: between, ignored, opioid, parallels, recognized, there, Vaccine No Comments »Is the Tech Industry to Digital Addiction What the Pharmaceutical Industry Has Been to Opioid Addiction?
January 17th, 2018 Awake Goy By Hope S. Good Apple Investors, Former Tech Employees Make Accusations, Demand Change. Opioid addiction has become so widespread in the U.S. that last August President Trump declared it to be a national emergency. “Digital Addiction” may not be as serious as opioid addiction YET; however, the outcry and accusations made by Apple […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: addiction, digital, industry, opioid, pharmaceutical No Comments »Landscape of Despair: America’s Opioid Epidemic
December 26th, 2017 Awake Goy By HOWARD KUNSTLER THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC: WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN A FEW MONTHS While the news waves groan with stories about “America’s Opioid Epidemic” you may discern that there is little effort to actually understand what’s behind it, namely, the fact that life in the United States has become unspeakably depressing, empty, and purposeless for […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: america, despair, epidemic, landscape, opioid 1 Comment »The opioid crisis has some legislators supporting natural remedies, authorizing use of acupuncture to help addicts as an alternative pain treatment
December 23rd, 2017 Awake Goy (Natural News) If you haven’t been affected by the opioid crisis, you’re in the minority. As drug overdoses killed more people than guns or car accidents last year, the need for action has never been greater. Some steps have been taken in recent months to try to combat this serious issue, but as long as […]
Posted in World News Tags: authorizing, crisis, legislators, natural, opioid, remedies, supporting No Comments »The hunt for opioid alternatives: Researchers look to sensory blocking substances from the ocean
December 18th, 2017 Awake Goy (Natural News) Over two million people in the U.S. have become dependent on opioid drugs, with approximately 52,000 overdose deaths in 2015. The country’s opioid crisis is leading scientists and researchers to find new ways to treat pain, and they’re making a lot of progress. A team of researchers from the University of Utah Health […]
Posted in World News Tags: alternatives, blocking, ocean, opioid, researchers, sensory, substances No Comments »Hospital admits they contributed to the opioid epidemic through unnecessary prescriptions: Now prescriptions are limited and addiction cases are down
December 17th, 2017 Awake Goy (Natural News) In an effort to curb opioid use, the University of Florida Health Shands Hospital implemented the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol in mid-2015. Under this, doctors can no longer impose narcotics on patients with impunity, and must make an effort to find and write prescriptions. Come 2017, and the results can already […]
Posted in World News Tags: admits, contributed, epidemic, hospital, opioid, through, unnecessary No Comments »The Justice Department’s New Opioid ‘Tools’ Are All About Escalating the Drug War
December 1st, 2017 Awake Goy Well hooray hooray, the drug war continues to linger on and now with some new money. Great. This effort will hurt yet more people and make the lives of families dealing with addiction that much more difficult. (From Reason) Given that the Trump administration has been trying to overturn the Affordable Care […]
Teamsters Union Claims Big Win vs. Largest Opioid Distributor
November 24th, 2017 Awake Goy Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. WASHINGTON (PAI) — In what is a big win for shareholder activism, and in particular for Teamsters Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall, stockholders in the nation’s largest opioid distributor, McKesson, voted down […]
FDA Loyalty to Big Pharma Exposed in Move to Ban Plant that’s CURING Opioid Addiction
November 18th, 2017 Awake Goy Matt Agorist, GuestWaking Times Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the government’s own account of nationwide drug deaths to cover all of 2016. The vast majority of those deaths are from opioid-based substances such as fentanyl, heroin, and prescription opioids. Now, a natural plant that is helping people kick […]
Opioid Prescription Drug Deaths Dwarf Shooting Deaths, Yet No Call To Ban Big Pharma
November 9th, 2017 Awake Goy Natural News| Americans continue to mourn the dozens of people who were killed and hundreds wounded by a crazed lunatic in Las Vegas on Sunday, and as is usually the case when guns are involved in a mass murder incident, the usual suspects are once more calling for gun bans. “Nowhere but America do horrific large-scale mass […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: deaths, dwarf, opioid, pharma, prescription, shooting No Comments »‘Don’t Do Drugs:’ Inmate Dies From Opioid Withdrawal Under Controversial ACH Program
November 9th, 2017 Awake Goy The family of a deceased man who was incarcerated at Kentucky’s Bourbon County Jail has filed a federal lawsuit against the county, jail officials, and the private medical contractor Advanced Correctional Healthcare. They allege “deliberate indifference” was shown to the man’s “obviously serious medical needs,” as he suffered from opioid withdrawal. Shannon Bowles was arrested […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: controversial, drugs, inmate, opioid, program, under, withdrawal No Comments »Meet the Billionaire Family Who Sparked America’s Opioid Crisis
October 31st, 2017 Awake Goy Renegade Editor’s Note: Why won’t ZeroHedge just come out and report that the Sackler family is jewish? The Forward recently ran a story on The Jewish Family Making Billions From The Opioid Crisis. Also, it should be noted that White people have been most heavily affected by the opioid plague, as they have been most heavily […]
GOP senators pushing for alternatives to deadly, addictive opioid prescription drugs… but none of them dare say "cannabis"
October 31st, 2017 Awake Goy (Natural News) In the aftermath of President Trump’s recent speech on the opioid epidemic in America, a number of Republican senators have issued a call for the discovery of new opioid “alternatives,” demanding that Big Pharma step up to procure them. But such alternatives already exist in the form of natural plants like cannabis sativa […]
Posted in World News Tags: addictive, alternatives, deadly, opioid, prescription, pushing, senators No Comments »Proof of illegal kickbacks: Doctor admits he was compensated by opioid manufacturer for issuing unnecessary prescriptions
October 30th, 2017 Awake Goy (Natural News) A Rhode Island-based physician has recently admitted to participating in a fraudulent scheme and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to illegally prescribe fentanyl, a highly-addictive opioid. A Reuters report has revealed that Dr. Jerrold Rosenberg, 36, has pleaded guilty before the U.S. District Court in Providence on grounds of health care fraud and […]
Posted in World News Tags: admits, compensated, doctor, illegal, kickbacks, opioid, proof No Comments »14 years of rising opioid deaths in Colorado REVERSED after marijuana was legalized
October 20th, 2017 Awake Goy (Natural News) As the country and lawmakers in Washington continue to debate the merits (and legality) of marijuana, the state of Colorado has made a startling discovery: The quasi-legalization of recreational pot use there has had a dramatically positive effect on the rate of opioid deaths. As reported by Reason Magazine, since the legalized sale […]
Insider Reveals How the Opioid Crime Network Operates
October 19th, 2017 Awake Goy Jon Rappoport, GuestWaking Times PBS Frontline (2/23/2016): “The opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis in American history…with overdoses from heroin and other opioids now killing more than 27,000 people a year…” (Note: prescription opioids are now a very significant gateway-drug leading addicts into heroin.) CBS News (8/1/2017): “Nearly 92 million U.S. […]
