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Portsmouth, Ohio Heroes are Without a Police Headquarters

Purdue Pharma owes it to this brave community of people fighting the OxyContin tsunami perpetrated by the pharmaceutical company.

(PORTSMOUTH, Ohio) - It recently came to my attention that the small community of Portsmouth, Ohio in Scioto County, Ohio is fighting crime and their prescription drug epidemic without a police headquarters facility.

It was closed down in 2010 due to an asbestos and black mold problem. The 40 officers of the Portsmouth Police Department are scattered in buildings throughout the town.

Maker of OxyContin Keeps Drug Flowing in Nova Scotia

They call their efforts "reducing the burden of chronic pain".

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Purdue Pharma Canada (maker of OxyContin) made a "generous" donation to the QEII Pain Clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the amount of $130,000. Their support of the treatment of chronic pain is because they claim one in five Nova Scotians suffer from chronic pain.

Ohio Takes Point in the Fight Against Oxycontin Abuse

There's a hero - If you look inside your heart - You don't have to be afraid of what you are - There's an answer - If you reach into your soul - And the sorrow that you know will melt away (Mariah Carey song)

(PORTSMOUTH, Ohio) - Ohio is not sitting back and letting drugs - namely OxyContin take over their communities and destroy families.

They are fighting back and every other state in the country should be demonstrating the courage they are showing.

Washington State is Front-Runner in Ending the `Over-Treatment` of Pain in the U.S.

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." Charles Evans Hughes (11th Chief Justice of the U.S. 1862 - 1948)

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - This month, the State of Washington will begin implementing new regulations for physicians and prescribers who treat their chronic pain patients with opiates.

Report on Eric Holder & U.S. Weapons Smuggling Program to Mexico Making Rounds

Obama's attorney general can't have that bad of a memory...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem-News.com revelations of Attorney General Eric Holder's knowledge about a federal gun smuggling ring - one that placed deadly weapons in the hands of already deadly Mexican drug cartels, has been making the rounds.

It might be the only story I know of that made the cut on FOX News and The Mike Malloy Show. That isn't easy to do.

Brian Terry (In Memorial) Border Patrol Agent

Federal agents are not part of the suspected ring; in fact it was an ATF agent who blew the whistle on the 'Fast and Furious' gunrunning operation to Mexican cartels in the first place.

(CLEVELAND) - The family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry says they may seek justice by suing the federal government.

Terry family attorney Paul Charlton explains in a current FOX News article that Brian was killed in December 2010 at the hands of an illegal immigrant working for the Sinaloa Cartel while patrolling an area near Tucson known as Rio Rico.

Holder Lied: DOJ News Release Shows Obama Admin Approved ATF Mexico Weapons Smuggling

Eric Holder gave false info. to a Congressional Committee about ATF operations tied to the deaths of two U.S. Agents: we have the proof.

(SALEM, Ore.) - New information indicates that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's actions are squarely behind the ATF operation known as "Fast and Furious", which orchestrated the delivery of almost 2,000 weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

Holder told a Congressional Committee last May that he had only known about the operation for a few weeks. Now we know he openly proclaimed his connection to the operation in April 2009 in a recorded speech in Mexico.

`A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar` - Mark Twain

"Corporate Counsel" recently wrote an article concerning due process in the debarment of Purdue Pharma's general counsel, Howard Udell by the Health & Human Services Agency.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - The Washington Legal Foundation is concerned with our government debarring General Counsel Howard Udell, CEO Michael Friedman and Chief Medical Officer Paul Goldenheim of Purdue Pharma from involvement in any federal healthcare programs for 12 years.

They feel it "raises serious constitutional due process concerns about the government's interpretation" of the law.

Feds Call Meeting with Journalist Who Reported Human Remains and Cartel Weapon Build up with U.S. Ties

Salem-News.com's Tosh Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot, believes he may have opened a door to an international weapons smuggling operation.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Earlier this week we told you about serious developments in the cartel border wars that involve American forces operating in Mexico.

Fox News reports: `U.S. Troops Reportedly Taking More Medication Than Ever`

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Fox News reports that U.S. military troops are taking more prescription medication than ever. US troops Heavily Medicated on Prescription Drugs, the report warns.

The bottom line is that the men and women of the US armed forces are taking more addictive medication than they ever have in the past.