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Ohio Takes Point in the Fight Against Oxycontin Abuse

There's a hero - If you look inside your heart - You don't have to be afraid of what you are - There's an answer - If you reach into your soul - And the sorrow that you know will melt away (Mariah Carey song)

(PORTSMOUTH, Ohio) - Ohio is not sitting back and letting drugs - namely OxyContin take over their communities and destroy families.

They are fighting back and every other state in the country should be demonstrating the courage they are showing.

Threats of Violence Against U.S. Government Interests in Chihuahua.

Emergency Message for U.S. Citizens issued by consulate in Mexico.

(CIUDAD JUAREZ) - The U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez is issuing this Emergency Message for U.S. citizens in the state of Chihuahua (“Emergency Messages” were formerly known as “Warden Messages”). The Consulate has distributed the following message to our staff:

Mexican authorities have captured key members of the cartels active in Juarez. These successes also bring with them the potential for an increase in violence.

Roger Clemens v. Real Crime

Surely the attention of officials and lawmakers could be better directed than it is.

(CLEVELAND) - When did the lines become so blurred in our society with regard to crime and punishment? It is hard to imagine a society where things are more out of sync than then are at this present time.

We've become unmanageable; common sense hit the window at 120 m.p.h. and out it went, it isn't like we can just reel it back in.

Washington State is Front-Runner in Ending the `Over-Treatment` of Pain in the U.S.

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." Charles Evans Hughes (11th Chief Justice of the U.S. 1862 - 1948)

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - This month, the State of Washington will begin implementing new regulations for physicians and prescribers who treat their chronic pain patients with opiates.

Report on Eric Holder & U.S. Weapons Smuggling Program to Mexico Making Rounds

Obama's attorney general can't have that bad of a memory...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem-News.com revelations of Attorney General Eric Holder's knowledge about a federal gun smuggling ring - one that placed deadly weapons in the hands of already deadly Mexican drug cartels, has been making the rounds.

It might be the only story I know of that made the cut on FOX News and The Mike Malloy Show. That isn't easy to do.

Partnering with Miss Canada Tara Teng to Ignite the `Road to Justice` Tour

(VANCOUVER, B.C.) - Many Canadians think they are far removed from issues like human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Canada however, is a major port and hub for human trafficking.

`A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar` - Mark Twain

"Corporate Counsel" recently wrote an article concerning due process in the debarment of Purdue Pharma's general counsel, Howard Udell by the Health & Human Services Agency.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - The Washington Legal Foundation is concerned with our government debarring General Counsel Howard Udell, CEO Michael Friedman and Chief Medical Officer Paul Goldenheim of Purdue Pharma from involvement in any federal healthcare programs for 12 years.

They feel it "raises serious constitutional due process concerns about the government's interpretation" of the law.

Out of Gas and Out of Luck
Police Arrest Fugitive Suspects from Wyoming

Jerry Freeman records the guns drawn police arrest in Salem.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A pair of men who police believed to be fugitives out of the state of Wyoming, were arrested in Salem, Oregon Thursday night. They reportedly ran out of gas and ended up in the parking lot of an Arco station at Market and Lansing NE.

Jimmy Carter Calls for End of Global Drug War in NY Times Op-Ed

Carter calls for an end to the mostly U.S. fueled madness that has driven, rather than reduced, drug use globally.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I never fail to be impressed with the man I consider to be the best U.S. president in recent history.

I believe former U.S. President James 'Jimmy' Carter has a heart of gold and while he walks a difficult mile and ha faltered along the way, he remains dedicated toward locating this elusive thing called world peace.

Oxycontin Tsunami Claims Thousands

On this first day of a new year, we join the world in feeling enormous sadness over a great human tragedy... The carnage is of a scale that defies comprehension." US President George W. Bush (January 2005 about a Tsunami in Indonesia)

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - The above quotation applies to the Tsunami of OxyContin addiction and death in every state in the country when Purdue Pharma obtains approval for clinical trials of non-malignant pain in children -- ages 6 to 17 -- beginning in September 2011.

I wrote about these clinical trials that were being driven by Purdue Pharma and made a comparison of Purdue Pharma's physician, Dr. Deborah Steiner and Dr. Josef Mengele, the "angel of death" under Adolf Hitler.