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Callifornia`s AG Asks Supreme Court to Stop Drug Companies from Cutting Deals to Block Generic Drugs

Along with the 31 other states, California's AG is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to accept the case for review and allow proper antitrust scrutiny of these agreements.

(LOS ANGELES) - California AG Kamala D. Harris has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case that seeks to end the "pay-for-delay" agreements in which a drug company pays competitors not to market generic versions of its brand-name drug.

Harris is the lead on this amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review these agreements that cost consumers billions of dollars and violate state and federal antitrust laws.

OxyContin Crisis in Ohio, Maine and Vermont

Maine and Vermont top on Painkiller Addiction List in the Country!

(MYRTLE BEACH S.C.) - A new federal study says Maine and Vermont top the national list for treatment rates for painkiller addiction.

A report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration says Vermont ranks behind only Maine in terms of admission rates per capita for those seeking help kicking addictions to prescription opiates such as oxycodone and hydrocodone. Oxycodone is known by the brand name OxyContin.

Tijuana`s Changed Migration Landscape

Stuck on the border, stranded young migrants become easy prey for prostitution and other rackets.

(TIJUANA, B.C.) - In Tijuana, the modalities of migration changed significantly during the last decade.

Reinforced US border walls, zooming helicopters and high tech surveillance on the US side of the border forced would-be migrants into more dangerous passages. The transformed landscape dramatically increased the cost of crossing, and strengthened outlaw groups in human trafficking.

2010: Turning Points in Chihuahua

This year international media devoted much reporting to the violence that engulfed Ciudad Juarez...

(CIUDAD, Juarez) - If anything could be said about 2010 in Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua, it might be stated that any semblance of human rights flew out the window.

Ushered in with the January murder of Juarez Valley human rights defender and army critic Josefina Reyes, the year drew to a close with the December slaying of activist Marisela Escobedo in Chihuahua City...

Merry Christmas Kids from Purdue Pharma, Maker of OxyContin

The maker of OxyContin -- the ones who lied about the addictive and abusive qualities of the drug -- now want to reach out and "help".

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - The Partnership for a Drug Free America launched a new Website offering resources for those seeking help for their kids and teenagers who are struggling with addiction.

Initially one would think the "Time to Get Help" Website was very informative and helpful to parents until the sponsorship of the website is named -- Purdue Pharma -- along with an anonymous donor...

Human Rights News: Activist Mother Gunned Down

Marisela Escobedo’s brazen slaying evoked mass outrage in cyberspace and on the streets in Mexico and abroad.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - A Ciudad Juarez woman who struggled for more than two years to obtain justice for her murdered daughter is now a murder victim herself.

Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, mother of 16-year old Rubi Marisol Frayre Escobedo, was gunned down December 16 by an assassin in front of the state capital building in Chihuahua City as she protested her daughter’s case.

Medical Marijuana and Dr. Oz: Shame for Misinformation Propaganda

Dr. Oz, you probably are a good surgeon but Marijuana therapeutics is obviously NOT your forte.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Dr. Oz, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read The Oregonian Dec. 15, 2010 with the headline for your article Medical Marijuana Is Not An All-Purpose Healer.

I have no idea who flummoxed you into writing this but as a physician from Turkey you should know better. Marijuana has been used as medicine in your country, Turkey, for at least 1000 years. Here for only 200.

Al Qaeda is Deaf

Mr. North appears to have forgotten about cocaine-trafficking to fund terror in the form of right-wing Nicaraguan death squads

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A recent FoxNews.com dispatch from the “America’s Third War” series—this one entitled “Fighting Drug Cartels in Guatemala”

(read: “Encouraging Drug Cartels in Guatemala Such That They Might Then Be Fought”)—ends on a warning note underscoring how America’s Third War is intimately linked to the first two.

OxyContin Addiction in Ontario Canada, as in Many Other Places, is Increasing

"If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time" - Marian Wright Edelman

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Nearly five hundred deaths in five years have been attributed to OxyContin addiction in Ontario, reported the Toronto Star.

In 2009 OxyContin addiction in Ontario increased because prescribing doctors had no online access to what other OxyContin prescriptions had been made out for a person and prescriptions were easily forged.

Wrong Answer Dr. Jenkins!

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - I was invited - as credentialed media - to participate in a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) media briefing on November 19, 2010 to discuss a "drug safety issue".

A controversial painkiller Darvocet or Darvon as well as other brand/generic drugs containing propoxyphene was being pulled by the FDA due to dangerous cardiac side effects. New proof of heart side effects in studies of healthy people taking normal doses of the drug prompted the FDA to act.