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Opioid Use: When is Enough Really Enough Dr. Webster?

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it." Martin Luther King

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - Last week I wrote about Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing petitioning the FDA for stricter guidelines in prescribing opioids for pain.

Doctor Under Senate Investigation Lashes Out at Journalist

Perry Fine, MD accuses me of "really really bad journalism" -- but I'm not the one who is under investigation by the U.S. Senate...

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - As a background to this article, there is a U.S. Senate investigation of the pharmaceutical industry focusing on companies such as the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma.

The Senate is investigating their funded pain organizations and physicians who advocate the use of addictive painkillers and possibly profiting from the prescription drug epidemic.

`Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity` Calls for End to Drug War that`s Killed 60,000

Pro-Legalization Police Officers Join Poet Javier Sicilia and Other Drug War Victims to Make 6,000-Mile Journey Through 20 Cities to Honor Lives Lost to Failed Prohibition Policies, Culminating in International Day of Action in Washington, D.C.

(SAN DIEGO) - A broad bi-national coalition will join the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice & Dignity (MPJD) on a month-long “Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity” across the US.

The Caravan is led by renowned Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, who emerged as a leader of the MPJD after his son Juan Francisco was killed in senseless prohibition-related violence last year.

Feds Close Juarez Casinos

Despite the extreme violence that erupted in Ciudad Juarez after 2008, the gaming industry continued to expand locally.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Mexican federal law enforcement agents swooped down on three Ciudad Juarez casinos last weekend, detaining employees and placing “closed” seals on the businesses.

The target of the July 28 raids was the Uno bingo and sports book chain that maintained three casinos in different sections of the border city.

My Opiate Experience

Part 2 of a series; see Part 1 here

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - "A Chronic Pain Patient" speaks out about the over-prescribing of painkillers by physicians without rambling, blaming abusers, defending their use of multiple painkillers and denying addiction.

It`s not all about `Abuse` -- Let`s tell it like it is -- It`s `Addiction` and pharma and the FDA is responsible for it

Part 1 of a series

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) have filed a Citizens Petition to the FDA putting pressure on the agency to change the labeling of Opioids.

Before the pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue Pharma, maker of their lethal drug, OxyContin continue their marketing of the word "abuse", let's throw out the word "addiction" to them.

Marijuana Vs. Methadone

Cannabis/marijuana had never killed anybody in the probable 5,000 years of its use in medicine.

(MOLALLA, OR) - The New York Times published on July 10, 2012 that Methadone accounted for about 1/3 of deaths caused by opiate and opioids pain relievers in 2009 but they didn’t give the actual figure.

The opiate, Oxycodone, causes the most deaths followed by hydrocodone, (Vicodin) and Morphine but the opioid Methadone which had been used mostly to get addicts off heroin is now widely used as a pain killer.

Wake Up FDA - Terminate the Endless Financial Benefits of Big Pharma or Resign

FDA board already committing professional suicide with their advocacy for pharma.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - Michael David Israel, every parent's son whose mom and dad could not allow the senseless over-prescribing of opioids to further take our kids lives -- are heroes in every sense of the word.

Avi and Julie Israel are fighting a tireless effort to prevent further suicides of our young people when they become addicted to overly prescribed opioids.

Sleeping Watchdog?
FDA`s Ridiculous Position on Drug Addiction

This article dedicated to the memory of Peter who died Dec 23, 2001 at age 25 - accidental Oxycontin overdose.

(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - As a teen and young adult Pete loved to watch football, wrestling and anything Star Wars.

Narcosphere: Texas Case Raises Troubling Questions About ATF Gunwalking

Rio Grande Valley Businessman Was The Target of Multiple Arms-Trafficking Investigations Yet He Continued To Acquire Guns Through Straw Buyers.

(LAS CRUCES, NM Narcosphere) - A series of criminal investigations initiated four years ago by ATF focused on a weapons-trafficking ring in South Texas.