It’s a familiar story. After a hard day at school or work, we stop by the bar or a friend’s house to enjoy a drink or...
The Sackler family, owner of major pharmaceutical firm Purdue Pharma, spent years deliberately misleading doctors and patients about the lethal danger posed by its flagship product,...
As the U.S. witnesses a cascade of new laws that lift the prohibition of cannabis for medical and recreational purposes, more people have made an exodus...
For the first time in recorded history, U.S. residents are more likely to die from an opioid overdose than from a car accident, according to a...
Less than a month after the FDA approved a new synthetic opiate that is 1000 times stronger than morphine, the Center for Disease Control has released...
60-year-old Hedda Martin has been given a second chance after she was denied a heart transplant for a lack of money and her story subsequently went...
The owner of an art gallery in Connecticut recently got arrested, after dropping off a 10 foot long (3.048 meter), 800 pound (362 kilogram) sculpture of...
The opioid epidemic is openly being reported in the media as a sort of plague that characterizes the decade we’re currently living in, and it’s a...