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There's still time to clean out your medicine cabinets and safely dispose of unused and expired medications today. Go to www.deatakeback.com to find the drop off location nearest you. Be sure to lock up those medications that you need to keep on hand to make sure they don't fall into the hands of young children and teens or adults who may be drug seekers.
Join NCAPDA’s Executive Director, April Rovero, and Dr. Dennis Barker, D.C. with Tice Valley Chiropractic to learn what prescription drug safety measures can be taken to avoid negative downstream impacts such as substance use disorder and overdose. Learn what alternative treatment options should be the first course of pain treatment to avoid potentially dangerous and addictive prescription painkillers.
Big International opioid take down linked to the darknet.
Justice Dept.: 179 arrested in darknet opioid takedown
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officials arrested 179 people and seized more than $6.5 million in a worldwide crackdown on opioid trafficking on the darknet, the U.S. Justice Department said...Abuse deterrent OxyContin - always a smokescreen.
Experts: Revamped OxyContin hasn't curbed abuse, overdoses
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of government health advisers said Friday there’s no clear evidence that a harder-to-crush version of the painkiller OxyContin designed to discourage abuse actually...The Founder of NCAPDA was asked to participate in an "Out Here in the Middle" podcast that was aired on International Overdose Awareness Day that is available here. It provides a comprehensive view of her life both before her son Joey's overdose death on 12/18/09 and what drives her to do the work she now does to raise awareness and stimulate policy change through NCAPDA, the Contra Costa County MEDS Coalition and the FED UP! Coalition.
For those who followed the take down of Dr. Lisa Tseng's pill mill and are interested to learn more about the case built against her that resulted in a 30 years to life sentence, tune in this Saturday at 6PM for the Oxygen network's debut of their 'License to Kill' program called "Prescription for Murder'. NCAPDA's Founder appears as one of the victims in this story. Be sure to check to see what time it's airing in your time zone. It will be aired multiple times over the following week in case you miss it on Saturday. Just check their on-line program schedule.
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Full Episode Watch The Latest Episode Of 'License To Kill' Now When a vivacious college student turns up dead in her home, detectives uncover a deadly, one-sided obsession that leads them on an intern...Recovery support during COVID-19 and the resource challenges it has brought.
COVID-19 exacerbates an already fractured opioid addiction treatment framework: ANALYSIS
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Opioid addiction treatment was already a fractured problem before coronavirus hit. Now, with risk factors high, that presents a bigger problem.Other News
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| American Greed: Making a Killing – Doctor Drug Dealer | Check out the trailer for American Greed’s program airing on 3/13/17 focused on Dr. Lisa … | 2017/03/08 | 2017-03-08 22:17:01 |
| In Depth: Deadly addiction in the suburbs | All too often we talk about it as something that happens on a dark street … | 2017/02/06 | 2017-02-06 18:57:35 |
| Bay Area Family Puts Face On Suburban Opioid Addiction | With Californians now leading the nation in opioid-related deaths, a Bay Area mother and son … | 2016/11/11 | 2016-11-11 18:31:00 |
| John Oliver Takes on America’s Opioid Crisis on Last Week Tonight | John Oliver tackled America’s opioid crisis on Last Week Tonight on Sunday. He started his … | 2016/10/24 | 2016-10-24 18:24:34 |