#opiodcrisis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #opiodcrisis, aggregated by home.social.
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‘Canada needs a game plan for next phase of opioid crisis’ Coun. Stephanie Plante and Dr. Monty Ghosh https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/12/03/canada-needs-a-game-plan-for-next-phase-of-opioid-crisis/
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@estherschindler alt-text
Post from JD Vance saying, "Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military"
To which Hashis Mteuzi, PMP replied, "The Sackler Family cartel killed 500,000 Americans and never saw a day in prison.
I'm sure this has nothing to do with them being white billionaires."
#alt4you #alttext #SacklerFamily #DrugPushers #OpiodCrisis #JDVance
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUFbbNH7pE
Republicans Left Their SUPPORTERS TO DIE
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Even though this settlement deal represents nearly 2/3 of the Sackler's wealth, they will still be billionaires.
#Sacklers #OpiodCrisis #PurduePharma #SacklersLiedPeopleDied
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Too long, would rather read? Here's a link to the text of my remarks on Bill S-256, in which I tell the tale of the Great Post Office Espionage Scandal of 1844 - and express my misgivings about creating law that treats Indigenous communities differently than non-Indigenous ones. https://sencanada.ca/en/senators/simons-paula/interventions/653249/63#hID #SenateofCanada #CanadaPost #fentanyl #OpiodCrisis #Canada
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Why is MSM not asking why #ElonMusk reportedly plans to commit $45 million per month to America #PAC to support #Trump – here are new details on America PAC donors and vendors. Is there a reason why most #billionaire #donors cannot see their way clear to helping to eradicate just to name a few: #poverty in America, #foodinsecurity #homlessness #OpiodCrisis #gunviolence inadequate #medicalcare #cancer #climatecrisis https://newstracs.com/new-details-on-trump-supporting-america-pac-donors-and-vendors/2024/07/17/
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He died from the stuff that is supposed to help people get off of opioids. 😢
#opiodcrisis #MatthewPerry
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/16/friends-star-matthew-perry-died-of-ketamine-overdose-autopsy-finds -
@maggiemaybe
Last night on MSNBC, I saw LA Times journalist Keegan Hamilton, interviewed by Paola Ramos (subbing for Alicia Menendez), say it right out loud: China and Mexico don't have the massive substance addiction casualties that we find in the US: they also have universal, single payer health care.
https://www.msnbc.com/american-voices/watch/mexico-china-agree-to-help-u-s-curb-opioid-crisis-198235717827#selfmedicating #fentanyl #OpiodCrisis #addiction #captialismisantitheticaltohealthcare.
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Impact journalism: Two days after a report by AP's Jim Mustian
Josh Goodman, DEA strips a major U.S. drug distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers. #opiodcrisis https://apnews.com/article/opioids-fentanyl-drugs-addiction-painkillers-dea-e29d16194b0fd44b942fee2c3477390d -
#BritishColumbia #HealthAuthority on #VancouverIsland is #testing new #technology inside #washrooms to help #SaveLives of people using #IllicitDrugs .
#IslandHealth has installed #MotionDetecting #sensors that track how long a person has occupied the bathroom & whether they are moving at six locations which have been identified as #HighRisk spaces for #DrugPoisoning .https://globalnews.ca/news/9561362/island-health-overdose-detector-trial/amp/
#VIHA #OpiodCrisis #StopTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #overdoses #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland
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A woman with A POSSIBLY DISLOCATED HIP has been waiting for 3.4 hours now for the ambulance.. (Ottawa area)
The EMS have been super busy today.. My scanner stream can't keep up.. Lots of ODs, people found unconscious.. ALS has been unavailable a lot recently.
We have to do better :(
https://youtube.com/live/WWYperUQHTk
Just want to clarify that this is NOT the fault of the overworked paramedics, doctors, nurses, and other health care workers..
This is the fault of the government and, by proxy, the people who voted for them.
#FirstResponders #EMS #Ottawa #OnPoli #CanPoli #HealthCare #HealthCareCrisis #Canada #LiveStream #live #youtuber #DrugCrisis #OpiodCrisis
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“When the doctors switched off the life support machines, his mom climbed into bed beside him and I held my son’s hand as he passed away,” Puerta says. “This wasn’t an overdose because Daniel didn’t know what he was taking. He was intentionally deceived. He was poisoned.”
https://www.ft.com/content/bd1b1614-8407-4447-a0e3-3723368fbbf8
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Testimony of Sam Rivera of NY OPC (overdose prevention site) to SF gov.
#harmreduction #recovery #RecoveryPosse #OpiodCrisis
0-3:12:00 [session] Sam Rivera [45:30-2:01:00]
https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/42751?view_id=192&redirect=true&h=83d1086618d4974fef0f132af7580bcf -
I recommend watching the HBO documentary on the pharma role in the #opiodcrisis that has killed thousands, for an eye opener on the corporate culture and structures involved in legalised drug pushing. Puts the following thread in perspective
https://www.hbo.com/the-crime-of-the-century
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RT @KanekoaTheGreat
1/ THREAD🚨 #PfizerFilesPfizer has habitually engaged in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribed physicians, & sup…
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"The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against AmerisourceBergen, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, accusing the company of knowingly distributing opioids that were later resold illegally."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/us/politics/amerisourcebergen-opioids-lawsuit.html
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The team at STAT picked this NYT piece on the opiod crisis as one of the top stories of the year.
Surprising absolutely no one, McKinsey made a buck from it
'Opana’s manufacturer, the pharmaceutical company Endo, had scaled back promotion of the drug. But months later, the company abruptly changed course, refocusing resources on the drug by assigning more sales representatives.
The push was known internally as the Sales Force Blitz — and it was conducted with consultants at McKinsey & Company, who had been hired by Endo to provide marketing advice about its chronic-pain medicines and other products.'
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A year on, how has Wu done on Mass. and Cass?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/22/metro/year-how-has-wu-done-mass-cass/Grateful to @wutrain and the folks at Pine Street and Shattuck for their heroic efforts; hopeful to see fewer needles in Franklin Park, and fewer services clustered in Roxbury, Dorchester, etc.
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CW: Mentions drug use, addiction and death
(Via @jenstden)
One in three BC construction workers report problematic substance use.“Everybody is a tough guy. And they’re scared to not be a tough guy. They’re scared to be the one with the problem,” said Trevor Botkin, a carpenter who stopped using drugs in 2019. “Using the drugs is fine. But being addicted, that’s dirty.”