by Monty Self | Oct 26, 2020 | Opinion
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Oct. 21 it had reached an $8 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been at the center of the nation’s opioid crisis for decades. The company pleaded guilty to paying doctors to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 10, 2019 | News
More than two-thirds (67.8 percent) of all drug-related overdose deaths in 2017 involved opioids, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released Dec. 21. Illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) – a synthetic opioid used for pain that the...
by Jon Kuhrt | Nov 27, 2018 | Opinion
One of the most important truths I have learned from the last 25 years of working with people is this: We cannot change other people unless they want to change. It’s important that we remember this truth because helping people with complex problems is in itself...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 10, 2018 | News
More than 63,000 people died in the U.S. from drug overdose in 2016, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Dec. 21, 2017. This is an 11,000-death increase from 2015 and continues a 17-year trend that has now...
by Ferrell Foster | Oct 10, 2017 | Opinion
I lay for three hours on a hospital bed with pain from kidney stones. The first shot of morphine had little impact; the second got me to a much better place. This took place a few years ago. Now, I read this: “Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic...
