Pharma exec gets a mere 66 months in prison for bribing doctors to overprescribe deadly, habit-forming opioids

Sunday, January 26, 2020 by: JD Heyes (Natural News) One of the worst drug epidemics in the history of America was caused not by small-time dealers and local pushers selling illegal substances on street corners, but by licensed physicians and primary care providers. Opioids have killed as many or more people in the 2000s as …

Americans more likely to die by opioid overdose than in a car crash

By Kevin Flower and Meera Senthilingam, CNN Posted Jan 15, 2019  (CNN) -- For the first time on record the odds of accidentally dying from an opioid overdose in the United States are now greater than those of dying in an automobile accident. The grim finding comes from the National Safety Council which analyzed preventable injury …