Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with drugs www.salem-news.com 2010 In the past few weeks, I have been writing articles about the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma and their financial funding the American Pain Foundation. ProPublica, known as Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) were hugely responsible for a Senate investigation of pharma's ties to pain foundations. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/senate-purdue-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/senate-purdue-ms.php Fri, 18 May 2012 23:58:00 PDT A Senate investigation is being conducted against the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma and their funded pain foundations as well as against individuals including doctors affiliated with Purdue Pharma and their pain foundations. The investigation by the Senate was announced this past week. http://salem-news.com/articles/may132012/purdue-problems-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132012/purdue-problems-ms.php Sun, 13 May 2012 15:08:00 PDT Last week I examined Scott M. Fishman, MD's book, "Responsible Opioid Prescribing - A Physician's Guide." Up until December 2011, Dr. Fishman had been President of the American Pain Foundation (APF) which is financially nourished by the pharmaceutical industry -- in particular the maker of OxyContin. http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/pain-fraud-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/pain-fraud-ms.php Fri, 04 May 2012 22:05:00 PDT The Oregonian May 1 2012 featured an article Addicted Babies Rise threefold in a Decade, with the emphasis on opiate painkillers for pregnant mothers and the extremely serious withdrawal effects on the newborn infants. They end up costing up to $50,000 per infant for a total of $720 million dollars per year. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/opiate-addiction-plr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/opiate-addiction-plr.php Wed, 02 May 2012 21:29:00 PDT In the next few weeks, I will be writing a series of articles on a book entitled "Responsible Opioid Prescribing - A Physician's Guide" by Scott M. Fishman, MD. The book is sponsored by organizations with a "common interest" in what they call promoting safe and effective pain management. http://salem-news.com/articles/april282012/pain-excuse-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april282012/pain-excuse-ms.php Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:07:00 PDT To: Victims and their families who have lost loved ones to the lethal drug, OxyContin because of the mass criminal marketing and manufacturing of the drug Here is an opportunity to utilize your "expertise" involving drug safety by alerting "relevant third parties" first hand of the dangers of this drug that continues to destroy the lives of loved ones through addiction and death. http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/killer-jobs-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/killer-jobs-ms.php Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:18:00 PDT In April 2011, I wrote an article about Purdue Pharma, maker of the deadly drug, OxyContin recruiting children ages 6 to 16 for clinical trials with malignant and nonmalignant pain. Below is what appears to be the "final" filing for these trials before the FDA reviews the clinical trials information and approves OxyContin for use in children http://salem-news.com/articles/april172012/oxycontin-kids-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april172012/oxycontin-kids-ms.php Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:16:00 PDT Like everyone else, I’ve been waiting nervously for the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office, for their report. Now that it is here, I am embarrassed for whomever released the report and their amateurish lack of evaluations of the results. http://salem-news.com/articles/april172012/houston-death-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april172012/houston-death-pl.php Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:32:00 PDT A National RX Drug Abuse Summit is going to be held in April and some "heavy hitters" in the drug war will be participating. Congressman Hal Rogers of Kentucky and Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack of California will be in attendance and have been great supporters of combating the prescription drug epidemic crippling the U.S. But why are they not questioning the purpose of this Summit? http://salem-news.com/articles/april082012/drug-summit-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april082012/drug-summit-ms.php Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:47:00 PDT It's obvious that the U.S. and Canada are losing the "war on drugs" in soaring deaths and addictions. The fact that the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) allows the war to be waged out of control by not reclassifying a lethal narcotic called OxyContin for severe pain only -- and not to treat moderate pain is the prime reason for losing this war... http://salem-news.com/articles/april042012/oxycontin-war-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april042012/oxycontin-war-ms.php Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:24:00 PDT Like everyone else, I've been waiting nervously for the Los Angeles Coroner's Office, for their report. Now that it is here, I am embarrassed for whomever released the report and their amateurish lack of evaluations of the results. Results, for example, cocaine and heart disease did not kill Whitney Houston. http://salem-news.com/articles/march262012/whitney-houston-plr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march262012/whitney-houston-plr.php Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:41:00 PDT On March 11, I wrote about a Kentucky Congressman lashing out at FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, about the devastation OxyContin has caused in his state. Two videos in the article show Dr. Hamburg "stonewalling" efforts to have the FDA reclassify the highly addictive and synthetic heroin, OxyContin for "severe" pain only. http://salem-news.com/articles/march182012/oxycontin-open-letter-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march182012/oxycontin-open-letter-ms.php Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:46:00 PDT The number of people murdered in the drug war inside the US between 2006 and 2010 exceeds the US-troop death toll in the Iraq War since it was launched in 2003, according to a Narco News analysis of FBI crime statistics. The US drug-war homicide tally is nearly 3 times greater than the number of US soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the first shots were fired... http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/drug-homicides-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/drug-homicides-bc.php Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:28:00 PDT Margaret Hamburg, MD, head of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has mastered "stonewalling talk tactics". http://salem-news.com/articles/march112012/fda-oxy-holder-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march112012/fda-oxy-holder-ms.php Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:33:00 PDT Federal regulators will decide this month whether to ban use of the synthetic chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in all food packaging, officials said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering a BPA ban because of a citizens’ petition filed by the National Resources Defense Council in October 2008. http://salem-news.com/articles/march112012/bisphenol-ban.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march112012/bisphenol-ban.php Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:50:00 PDT When Caritina Galeana Gomez was born, women did not have the right to vote and the Institutional Revolutionary Party that dominated Mexico for much of the 20th century wasn’t even created. Born just before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Dona Cari, as she is known locally, grew up in the Costa Grande of Guerrero state before a highways and tourist resorts attracted people from all over the world. http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/mexican-politics.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/mexican-politics.php Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:38:00 PST A handful of media groups are reporting over 100 members of Congress calling for the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. It stems from Holder's tragic decision to have the ATF smuggle deadly weapons to Mexican drug cartels, in the agency's 'Fast and Furious' operation. http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/holder-teeters-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march082012/holder-teeters-tk.php Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:11:00 PST Peru's Law No. 29737 and related provisions in Peruvian law, permit involuntary detention for treatment of people who suffer from addiction, in circumstances that do not comply with international human rights law. The law threatens fundamental human rights protections against arbitrary detention and ill-treatment deny the right to health. http://salem-news.com/articles/march012012/peru-drug-law-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012012/peru-drug-law-wg.php Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:37:00 PST This week I met with a dad whose young, adult son was prescribed OxyContin for a foot injury. I sat across from this dad who dearly loved his son and went through his life savings to get help for 'David'. It was to no avail. Below is the suicide letter that David wrote his mom and dad. It is heartrending. http://salem-news.com/articles/february292012/oxycontin-suicide-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february292012/oxycontin-suicide-ms.php Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:02:00 PST "A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do --- but it does not keep him from doing it." Frank Howard Clark http://salem-news.com/articles/february262012/arpo-new-drug-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february262012/arpo-new-drug-ms.php Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:03:00 PST This deadly combination, that's what. Doctors, lawyers, clergy, cops, elected officials, rich & poor. No one is immune. So, why does it still reign supreme? What will it take to put out the fire? God didn't create mankind to smoke, get drunk and be high- these are mere tools or traits of the devil, here’s why... http://salem-news.com/articles/february222012/houston-death-le.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february222012/houston-death-le.php Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:50:00 PST Before I start out, I’d like everyone to know that I am a Forensic Toxicologist, that is, I have operated, myself, a poison detection laboratory and I have testified in court over 400 times on all sorts of poison cases, homicide, suicide, accidental overdose, and Medical misadventure (wrong drug or wrong dose). In writing this, I think I know something about the toxicology procedures from start to finish. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/houston-toxocology-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/houston-toxocology-pl.php Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:44:00 PST In July 2011, I wrote about the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, keeping the drugs flowing in Nova Scotia as a huge epidemic of death, addiction and abuse is being fought. (Link provided below). Purdue Pharma Canada made a "generous" donation to the QEII Pain Clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the amount of $130,000. http://salem-news.com/articles/february192012/nova-scotia-purdue-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192012/nova-scotia-purdue-ms.php Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:54:00 PST Demi Moore was rushed to the emergency room due to serious problems caused by the consumption of drugs by the actress. Recently, Ashton Kutcher and Demi divorced. The break up was not easily taken in by the 49 year old actress. The actress’ poor health conditions are also due to the cruel demise of being an aged actress in Hollywood. http://salem-news.com/articles/february132012/demi-moore-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february132012/demi-moore-cf.php Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:11:00 PST Last week I wrote about pharmacist turned attorney Danna Droz, with the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. The article reviewed her ties to big pharma which could be construed as a conflict of industry -- I mean interest. http://salem-news.com/articles/february122012/ohio-oxycontin-e-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february122012/ohio-oxycontin-e-ms.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:37:00 PST Conducting a presentation on Ohio's Pill Mill Bill, Danna Droz with the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy states that she has no financial interest or conflict of interest in the context of the subject matter of this presentation. However it appears that Ms. Droz has forgotten about an ethics investigation relating to her ties to the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/osycontin-ohio-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/osycontin-ohio-ms.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:32:00 PST The survival of humanity is a concept of inter-dependency. Each time this essential synchronicity is stripped away, the dogs of war assume their battle stations and sickening patterns of brutality begin. The horror that enveloped Sri Lanka just over two years ago is beyond description. Sexual depravity accompanied mobs of morally disorganized soldiers who had orders to kill, everyone. http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/us-lanka-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/us-lanka-tk.php Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:22:00 PST As a dedicated writer, Marianne Skolek, who has generated 130 articles for Salem-News.com, has been named 'Investigative Reporter' by the group's News Editor, Tim King. Marianne's first article, Losing a Loved One to Hillybilly Heroin - OxyContin, was published in July 2009. http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/skolek-promotion-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/skolek-promotion-tk.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:10:00 PST Nassau County, New York has sounded the alarm -- they are experiencing a prescription drug abuse problem and are "taking the lead" in the nation and are forming an allegiance. This joint effort is with Nassau County's Prescription Drug Misuse and Abuse Prevention Task Force, InfraGard (an FBI public/private partnership) as well as the Long Island Pharmacy Crimes Task Force to run a Pharmacist Security Summit. http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/suffolk-drugs-ms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/suffolk-drugs-ms.php Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:18:00 PST I presume that a few people will disagree with my thesis. I will admit to a few exceptions and I will address them later. For my own review, I pulled up the standard doses of the opiates, (from opium) and the opioids, not from opium but totally synthetic. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172012/marijuana-painkiller-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172012/marijuana-painkiller-pl.php Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:52:00 PST