It took Kevin James two years to recover after doctors changed his medication. He doesn’t want this to happen to anyone else.
Modern treatments often centre on cognitive behavioural therapy,education and exercise-based rehab rather than drugs,but it seems pain patients have not been brought along for the ride.
When photographer Nan Goldin became addicted to OxyContin,she decided to go after the powerful family who pushed the drug.
The arrest spurred the powerful Sinaloa Cartel to go on a rampage,setting vehicles on fire,blocking roads,and fighting security forces.
A doctor being honoured with an Order of Australia for his work with people who abuse drugs,is calling for more GPs to join the ranks as demand for opioid treatment surges in the pandemic.
Angry,defiant and sometimes tearful,people whose lives were upended by the opioid crisis finally had their long-awaited chance on to confront in court the company they blame for fuelling it.
It’s a milestone in the effort to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable for opioid addiction which has killed at least 500,000 Americans since 1999.
After her breakthrough role in Unbelievable,Kaitlyn Dever wanted projects that would “move the needle”. As a young opioid addict in Dopesick,she gets her wish.
The deal was the second-largest cash settlement ever,after the 1998 $US246 billion tobacco agreement,though the companies still deny they flooded the market.
When Simon Millington was in the grips of an opioid addiction,his parents wanted to send him to a rehabilitation program. The only one available was called Narconon.
Trump has helped to deepen America's economic and social woes,but the ever-rising “deaths of despair” among working-class white men reveals divisions had been growing for years.