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New York Times article on OxyContin being `harder to abuse` leaves big questions

Were the NY Times staff aware that Purdue Pharma had a patent to make OxyContin non abusive at the launch of the drug?

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - On June 16, the "New York Times" published a story regarding OxyContin being harder to abuse -- but users "persevere."

Raided Mexican Ranch Linked to U.S. Drug War Corruption

Former CIA Asset Claims U.S. Special Forces Assisted Mexican Soldiers In Assault on Stash Site.

(COLUMBUS, N.M.) - The recent raid of a stash site on the Mexican side of the border suspected of containing a cache of guns and/or drugs is drawing attention once again to the U.S. border town of Columbus, N.M.

This is where 11 people, including the mayor, police chief and a village trustee, were recently indicted on gun-running charges.

El Grito de El Paso (The Cry of El Paso)

Defending Mexican refugees has emerged as a big issue in El Paso and other places.

(EL PASO) - On Memorial Day, Albuquerque resident Michael Brown embarked on a run of more than 260-miles to the US-Mexico border.

The long-distance runner began his marathon at the spot where the bodies of 11 murdered women were found on Albuquerque’s West Mesa back in February 2009. Headed south, the US Navy veteran stopped at a grave site to honor his fallen military brethren and then visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Truth or Consequences, NM.

Jimmy Carter Calls for End of Global Drug War in NY Times Op-Ed

Carter calls for an end to the mostly U.S. fueled madness that has driven, rather than reduced, drug use globally.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I never fail to be impressed with the man I consider to be the best U.S. president in recent history.

I believe former U.S. President James 'Jimmy' Carter has a heart of gold and while he walks a difficult mile and ha faltered along the way, he remains dedicated toward locating this elusive thing called world peace.

Love, Struggle and Memory in Ciudad Juarez

Magdalena Garcia, widow of disappeared architect Ricardo Gatica, said: “I want justice!”
“You are not alone!” the crowd roared back.

(CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico) - Completing an epic journey across Mexico, the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity arrived late last week to a tumultuous welcome in Ciudad Juarez.

It's the place where the beleaguered border city poet and caravan organizer Javier Sicilia calls Mexico’s “epicenter of pain.”

Cocaine Unwrapped

"Unwrapping the human cost of cocaine, the film shows the true price of this commodity" - Dartmouth Films

(TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras) - The documentary film “Cocaine Unwrapped” will premiere at the Open City London Documentary Festival on 17 June at 8:50 p.m. The film will screen again on 18 June at 2:10 p.m.

According to a short description of the film from the Dartmouth Films website: "This feature documentary is a wake-up call to the West about the human suffering and cost caused by the cocaine trade and the war against it.<

Oxycontin Tsunami Claims Thousands

On this first day of a new year, we join the world in feeling enormous sadness over a great human tragedy... The carnage is of a scale that defies comprehension." US President George W. Bush (January 2005 about a Tsunami in Indonesia)

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - The above quotation applies to the Tsunami of OxyContin addiction and death in every state in the country when Purdue Pharma obtains approval for clinical trials of non-malignant pain in children -- ages 6 to 17 -- beginning in September 2011.

I wrote about these clinical trials that were being driven by Purdue Pharma and made a comparison of Purdue Pharma's physician, Dr. Deborah Steiner and Dr. Josef Mengele, the "angel of death" under Adolf Hitler.

Generations of the Disappeared

Victims disappearing without a trace...

(CIUDAD-JUAREZ, Mexico) - When young women and girls began vanishing in Ciudad Juarez about two decades ago, Esmeralda Castillo was not even born. But in 2009, the 14-year-old middle school student joined the ranks of the disappeared.

“She was a normal girl, just like the rest,” Jose Luis Castillo, Esmeralda’s father, said in an interview.

So I Went back to Ohio...
Declaring a Public Health Emergency Over Oxycontin

Peter Finch may have shouted the line "I'm mad as hell -- and I'm not going to take it anymore" in the movie Network, but Ohio is madder over an OxyContin epidemic killing their kids.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Scioto County, Ohio, in a pocket of Appalachia -- is thought by some to be 'lower class' -- maybe even uneducated -- but Scioto County is losing families

The biggest challenge; losing their kids to prescription narcotics -- namely OxyContin.

The Other Drug Cartel...

Prescription Drug Advertising. Where is the Outrage?

(VADNAIS, Minn.) - Many legislators in Congress still do not get it! The largest contributing factor in the outrageous cost of prescription drugs is advertising and promotion, estimated to be about 37% of the price we pay for those drugs.

More money is spent on lobbying, advertising and promotion by the pharmaceutical industry than is spent on research and development.