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UPS to Forfeit $40 Million in Payments for Shipping Illicit Online Pharmacies

News release from the Drug Enforcement Agency.

(WASHINGTON DC) - 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.

Meet Two of Big Pharma`s Most Compromised Doctors

Both subjects of Senate investigations, they just keep pushing addictive pills onto the public.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - 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.

Wanted Fugitive Arrested After Facebook Search Confirms Identity During Traffic Stop

Press release from Oregon State Police.

(LAKE OSWEGO, OR) - 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.

In their own words... The Lies Purdue Pharma Used to Launch OxyContin

Top Purdue Pharma execs openly lied about Oxycontin being non-lethal when they knew it was deadly.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - 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.

Pot Grower Prosecution in Spite of Prop. 215: a White Elephant for California Taxpayers, or What?

Prosecutors in case against legal marijuana grower may be showboating on a sinking ship.

(MARYSVILLE, CA) - 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.

Pain Clinic Founder Lynn Webster - Now Subject of DEA Investigation

Founder of DEA raided 'pain clinic' now under investigation by Senate and Drug Enforcement Agency.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - 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.

The Fine Line Between Profit and Pain

Disease, and risks of addiction "small" Dr. Fishman?

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - 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.

Autism, ADD and ADHD: Marijuana Versus Adderal Therapy

Marijuana wins hands down.

(PORTLAND, OR) - 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...

Evidence Suggests Whitney Houston Was Killed by Drug Traffickers

Illegal drug use takes a toll on our society.

(MADRID) - The forensic proficient diagnosed that Whitney Houston expired drowned in the tub with an overdose of drugs.

Kentucky Sues Devil of Drug Manufacturers, `Hillbilly Heroin` Maker Purdue Pharma

"I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone." Carmille Claudel

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - 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.