Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with drugs www.salem-news.com 2013 A new History Channel program examines the failed and costly drug war in America. For the last 40 years the United States has spent nearly $1 Trillion to fight the War on Drugs and little progress has been made. http://salem-news.com/articles/may242013/american-secrets.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may242013/american-secrets.php Fri, 24 May 2013 12:38:00 PDT A few years ago, Scott M. Fishman, MD was interviewed by his employer, the University of California Davis and asked about the common problems in physicians treating pain patients. Interesting topic for the time -- at the height of the opioid prescribing frenzy. http://salem-news.com/articles/may052013/addiction-defender-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may052013/addiction-defender-ms.php Sun, 05 May 2013 14:36:00 PDT I have been conducting online research to see how many federal agencies have been protecting us from the "evil weed" marijuana, as compared to the regularly available "strong painkiller" heroin. The latter is actually prescribed in England as Brompton Cocktail, which contains heroin or other strong morphine-like drugs http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/marijuana-heroin-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/marijuana-heroin-pl.php Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:19:00 PDT Sometimes I just can's believe what I am reading. The Oregon Legislature recently had hearings about including Combat PTSD for medical marijuana permits. Senator Betsy Close was quoted as saying, "(I) am against expanding the medical marijuana program," and, "Marijuana does damage the body and especially the brain," and, "All drugs have side effects. This drug has documented brain damage and sex damage." http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/ptsd-close-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/ptsd-close-pl.php Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:56:00 PDT OK, so you are asking yourself, what do they know? I didn't know all of the details myself. I originally posted an article in Salem-News.com, Nausea of Pregnancy, Marijuana Vs. Antiemitics, Marijuana Wins Hands Down! http://salem-news.com/articles/april102013/marijuana-sisterhood-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april102013/marijuana-sisterhood-pl.php Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:06:00 PDT I actually found out about this ten years ago when I was helping one of my 1,000 PTSD Veteran patients get a medical marijuana permit. He had been mistreated at the VA with morphine-like drugs, valium-like drugs and anti-depressants, all of which are strong brain depressants. They had destroyed his libido. http://salem-news.com/articles/april082013/marijuana-aphrodisiac-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april082013/marijuana-aphrodisiac-pl.php Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:43:00 PDT The DEA today announced that United Parcel Service and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, entered into a Non-Prosecution Agreement. UPS agreed to forfeit $40 million in payments it has received from illicit online pharmacies, and also to implement a compliance program designed to ensure that illegal online pharmacies will not be able to use UPS’s services to distribute drugs. http://salem-news.com/articles/march292013/dea-ups.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march292013/dea-ups.php Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:37:00 PDT On March 3, 2013 I wrote an article for Salem-News.com entitled The Profiteers of Drug Addiction Will Meet in Florida. My purpose in writing the article was to bring attention to the fact that the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) in sheer arrogance was holding their annual convention in what has been referred to as "the pill mill capital of America" -- Florida. http://salem-news.com/articles/march252013/pain-profits-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march252013/pain-profits-ms.php Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:43:00 PDT A wanted fugitive was arrested Sunday afternoon with the help of a social media Website. An Oregon State Police trooper determined the man's true identity through a Facebook search using an in-car OSP mobile data terminal (MDT) computer. http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/facebook-arrest.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/facebook-arrest.php Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:31:00 PDT I recently acquired a copy of the OxyContin Product Data Brochure dated 1996 which Purdue Pharma distributed at the launch of their deadly drug. I have bolded key remarks made by Purdue Pharma and below each remark, I have added information that has surfaced since 1996. http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/oxycontin-data-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march182013/oxycontin-data-ms.php Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:39:00 PDT It was an interesting day Friday, covering a hearing in the case against Eric Salerno in Marysville, held in the courtroom of Yuba County Judge Julia Scrogin. http://salem-news.com/articles/march102013/eric-court-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102013/eric-court-tk.php Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:59:00 PDT Lynn Webster, MD is now under Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) investigation and admits deaths due to drug overdoses at his pain clinic in Utah I have written about Lynn Webster, MD being under US Senate investigation for his potential part in the opioid prescribing epidemic resulting in deaths and addictions throughout the U.S. http://salem-news.com/articles/february232013/webster-dea-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february232013/webster-dea-ms.php Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:16:00 PST Last month the Pain Research, Education and Policy Program at Tufts University presented the annual "Sackler Lecture". Scott M. Fishman, MD the Chief of Division of Pain Medicine and Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of California-Davis School of Medicine, was the keynote speaker. http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/profit-pain-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/profit-pain-ms.php Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:39:00 PST Marijuana therapy for autism was possibly discovered about 2002 in an article by Jay R. Cavanaugh PhD. He reported that cannabis was effective for several brain diseases... http://salem-news.com/articles/february082013/brain-disease-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082013/brain-disease-pl.php Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:59:00 PST The forensic proficient diagnosed that Whitney Houston expired drowned in the tub with an overdose of drugs. http://salem-news.com/articles/january222013/whitney-houston.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january222013/whitney-houston.php Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:20:00 PST If Kentucky is suing the makers of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma for their deceit in marketing the drug, how far behind are the remaining 49 States in Filing Lawsuits for loss of hundreds of thousands of lives to addiction and death? The State of Kentucky has taken on the devil. The devil known as "Hillbilly Heroin" and "Heroin of the Hills" in their state. http://salem-news.com/articles/january162013/kentucky-purdue-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january162013/kentucky-purdue-ms.php Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:48:00 PST The ever diligent watchdogs of the American people's safety - the FDA - have once again disappointed me. This time, the FDA is targeting "newborns" in approving a dangerous drug to treat "the flu". http://salem-news.com/articles/december312012/tamiflu-newborns-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december312012/tamiflu-newborns-ms.php Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:29:00 PST Mega-star Whitney Houston’s cause of death has been officially ruled as a drowning, with heart disease being the suspected cause of that drowning. According to the medical examiner, Houston, who said she’d gotten clean, had cocaine and marijuana in her system. http://salem-news.com/articles/december282012/houston-questions.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december282012/houston-questions.php Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:54:00 PST The DEA today announced the results of “Project Below the Beltway”, a two-year series of investigations targeting the Sinaloa and Juarez Cartels and violent street gangs as part of on-going initiative against the cartels and their distribution network in America. The series of federal, state, and local investigations began in May 2010 and culminated on December 6, 2012. http://salem-news.com/articles/december072012/dea-busts.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december072012/dea-busts.php Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:23:00 PST Do messages attributed to three Mexican underworld organizations portend war or peace? Three so-called narco-banners displayed in Guerrero are purportedly signed by three groups not only a truce among the signatories, but also a new “brotherhood” against the rival Los Zetas organization. http://salem-news.com/articles/november242012/narcos-merging.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november242012/narcos-merging.php Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:08:00 PST Miguel Ángel Soto Para, founder of the Los Zetas cartel, is one of more than 50 protected witnesses who U.S. and Mexican authorities have shared. He was being transported by federal agents when they were attacked on a highway between Mexico City and Querétaro, resulting in the death of the American, Jaime Zapata. http://salem-news.com/articles/october312012/jaime-zapata-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october312012/jaime-zapata-rb.php Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:12:00 PDT EU-certified pharmaceuticals will be exported to Israel and vice-versa without requiring additional certification in the importing country. This, under a deal endorsed by Parliament on Tuesday, despite reservations that easing trade with Israel could send it the wrong political signal at this time. http://salem-news.com/articles/october232012/israel-eu-pharma.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october232012/israel-eu-pharma.php Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:33:00 PDT “He sat in the courtyard watching his children spinning and spinning, their arms flailing as they cut through the air with each turn. Such giddiness and uproarious laughter had never before been witnessed, by him, in his children. Even when they fell to the earth bumping their knees and elbows, the looks of pure joy coupled with moans and laughter puzzled him. http://salem-news.com/articles/september082012/controlling-opium-mdp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september082012/controlling-opium-mdp.php Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:03:00 PDT Last week I wrote about Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing petitioning the FDA for stricter guidelines in prescribing opioids for pain. http://salem-news.com/articles/september032012/oxy-senate-inv-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september032012/oxy-senate-inv-ms.php Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:40:00 PDT As a background to this article, there is a U.S. Senate investigation of the pharmaceutical industry focusing on companies such as the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma. The Senate is investigating their funded pain organizations and physicians who advocate the use of addictive painkillers and possibly profiting from the prescription drug epidemic. http://salem-news.com/articles/august122012/perry-fine-folo-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august122012/perry-fine-folo-ms.php Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:45:00 PDT A broad bi-national coalition will join the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice & Dignity (MPJD) on a month-long “Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity” across the US. The Caravan is led by renowned Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, who emerged as a leader of the MPJD after his son Juan Francisco was killed in senseless prohibition-related violence last year. http://salem-news.com/articles/august082012/leap-caravan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august082012/leap-caravan.php Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:44:00 PDT Mexican federal law enforcement agents swooped down on three Ciudad Juarez casinos last weekend, detaining employees and placing “closed” seals on the businesses. The target of the July 28 raids was the Uno bingo and sports book chain that maintained three casinos in different sections of the border city. http://salem-news.com/articles/august012012/juarez-casinos.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august012012/juarez-casinos.php Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:37:00 PDT "A Chronic Pain Patient" speaks out about the over-prescribing of painkillers by physicians without rambling, blaming abusers, defending their use of multiple painkillers and denying addiction. http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/opiate-experience-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/opiate-experience-ms.php Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:44:00 PDT Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) have filed a Citizens Petition to the FDA putting pressure on the agency to change the labeling of Opioids. Before the pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharma, maker of their lethal drug, OxyContin continue their marketing of the word "abuse", let's throw out the word "addiction" to them. http://salem-news.com/articles/july292012/opioid-prescription-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july292012/opioid-prescription-ms.php Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:59:00 PDT The New York Times published on July 10, 2012 that Methadone accounted for about 1/3 of deaths caused by opiate and opioids pain relievers in 2009 but they didn’t give the actual figure. The opiate, Oxycodone, causes the most deaths followed by hydrocodone, (Vicodin) and Morphine but the opioid Methadone which had been used mostly to get addicts off heroin is now widely used as a pain killer. http://salem-news.com/articles/july242012/cannabis-methadone-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july242012/cannabis-methadone-pl.php Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:20:00 PDT