September 18, 2019
It’s official: Purdue Pharma, makers of the notorious opioid OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy this past Sunday. The filing comes as part of […]
Fentanyl; the word alone has an ominous ring to it. What was once an obscure synthetic opioid, reserved almost exclusively for late-stage […]
Why hasn’t the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) been taking a greater role in resolving the opioid epidemic? Judging by a recent article […]
I expected a lot of overwhelming responses when I first informed my family that I was going to “quit drinking.” But the […]
Life and death decisions shouldn’t be met with doors closed in your face. Yet, for some who battle the disease of addiction, […]
When it comes to citing liability for the opioid crisis, Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners top the list. After all, […]
Faced with the prospect of staying at rock bottom and likely losing his life, Recovery First alumnus Jonathan managed to click on […]
Stealing a patient’s medication or figuring out a way to manipulate the narcotics we are entrusted to monitor is criminal behavior, and […]
For the first time since 1990, the number of Americans killed by drug overdose may have dropped from the year prior. Preliminary […]
Last month, we got an unprecedented peek into the drug industry’s role in the opioid epidemic thanks to the release of a […]
Even now, after nearly twenty years of sobriety I find myself fascinated with alcohol. I was in a Walmart store recently, picking […]
It is an inescapable truth that there is a thriving drug culture on college campuses all across the country. It is something […]
Parental substance abuse has a major impact on the well-being of children. It is estimated that 1 in 8 children in the […]