DRUG TRAFFICKING

Sue Birkenshaw in opioid abuse
April 20, 2017

Pill Presses and our Opioid Epidemic

Unless you are a pharmacist or have a company manufacturing drugs or nutritional supplements, you’ve probably never given any thought to the idea of buying a pill press. Yet as the drug trade focuses more on counterfeit prescription painkillers such as Xanax, OxyContin, Roxicodone, the illegal sale and distribution of pill presses has been on the increase.

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Sue Birkenshaw in opioid abuse
April 9, 2017

Illicit Fentanyl from China Is Killing Americans

Part II of Why Fentanyl? Why Now? Illicit forms of fentanyl are being imported into the US from China and threatening the lives of opioid addicts. Learn what you can do to help prevent addiction and fatalities from this and other drugs.

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Sue Birkenshaw in Addiction
March 10, 2017

Proof that Drug Cartels Are Not Stupid

Drug cartels are highly organized business empires, marketing their goods to consumers most likely to fall into the trap of addiction. The public might hope and wish that drug cartels are just stupid criminals but unfortunately, that’s not the case. Why do we say that? You have only to look at their marketing and distribution tactics to see the proof.

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Sue Birkenshaw in Addiction
December 26, 2016

How Drug Cartels Prey on Athletes

Although it might seem impossible, your young athlete could be in the crosshairs of an international drug cartel that wants to make him a steady customer.

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Karen Hadley in Drug information
December 4, 2016

Out-of-Control Opioid Prescribing Turns into a Direct Path to Heroin

Changes in the drug market catch some people off guard and tempt them to use a drug they think will not hurt them. But when painkillers were overprescribed and heroin suddenly became available in every corner of the U.S., this changed everything.

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The Curse of OxyContin Addiction

The Curse of OxyContin Addiction The Los Angeles Times recently published a series of articles showing how one drug company and one Southern California walk-in clinic can addict thousands and even end lives thousands of miles away. The company was Purdue Pharma, manufacturers of OxyContin .

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Karen Hadley in Drug Abuse
July 20, 2016

Increasing Supplies of Fentanyl Stalk the Addicted

Increasing Supplies of Fentanyl Stalk the Addicted Massachusetts has long been a hub of opioid trafficking in the Northeast, but the drugs being trafficked were usually painkillers or heroin.

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