Gumption_Trap · @Gumption_Trap
49 followers · 136 posts · Server spacelase.rs

If you'd like to be better informed about the roots and genesis of the Opiod crisis I recommend Alex Gibney's excellent, searing, heartbreaking - documentary 2 part series "The Crime of the Century"

libremdb.iket.me/title/tt14055

#opiod #opiodcrisis #overdose #fentanyl #documentary

Last updated 1 year ago

Gumption_Trap · @Gumption_Trap
49 followers · 135 posts · Server spacelase.rs
beSpacific · @bespacific
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CPIPR · @PopResearchCtrs
442 followers · 411 posts · Server sciences.social

Populations in counties w a prescription drug-related opioid epidemic tend to be small, remote, older, mostly white, former farm/factory areas in decline since 1990s. By contrast, heroin and opioid syndemic counties tend to be more urban, connected to interstates, ethnically diverse, and in general more economically secure. County data provided.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/338146

#deathsofdespair #NICHDimpact #opiod #heroin #drugs #substanceabuse #urban #rural

Last updated 1 year ago

Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
1383 followers · 3357 posts · Server qoto.org

"The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against AmerisourceBergen, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, accusing the company of knowingly distributing opioids that were later resold illegally."

nytimes.com/2022/12/29/us/poli

#opiodcrisis #opiod

Last updated 2 years ago

Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
1354 followers · 3185 posts · Server qoto.org

The team at STAT picked this NYT piece on the opiod crisis as one of the top stories of the year.

Surprising absolutely no one, McKinsey made a buck from it

'Opana’s manufacturer, the pharmaceutical company Endo, had scaled back promotion of the drug. But months later, the company abruptly changed course, refocusing resources on the drug by assigning more sales representatives.

The push was known internally as the Sales Force Blitz — and it was conducted with consultants at McKinsey & Company, who had been hired by Endo to provide marketing advice about its chronic-pain medicines and other products.'

nytimes.com/2022/06/29/busines

#opiod #opiodcrisis

Last updated 2 years ago

Bunkunin · @Bunkunin
39 followers · 178 posts · Server mstdn.social

#opiod

Last updated 2 years ago

Kolokoko Bird! · @KolokokoBird
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Cuber.Rocks🥀 · @Cuber
40 followers · 468 posts · Server freeradical.zone

No criminal charges will be filed in relation to Prince's...death...of an accidental fentanyl overdose after taking counterfeit Vicodin pills that were laced with fentanyl...

cnn.com/2018/04/19/us/prince-d

#opiod #crisis #opiodcrisis #music

Last updated 7 years ago

Mirabilis · @mirabilis
432 followers · 402 posts · Server octodon.social

This makes total sense to me: give opiod users clean drugs, so that they don't need to take street drugs that are laced with fentanyl and god knows what else.

straight.com/news/1004536/no-b


#opiod #fentanyl #heroin #hydromorphone #overdose #vancouver #bc #canada

Last updated 7 years ago