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#overdosecrisis

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After years of litigation that delayed payments designed to combat the national opioid crisis, Purdue Pharma and the billionaire Sackler family who own it agreed to pay $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the opioid manufacturer’s role in the crisis and give up their company ownership #opioid #Drugs #Sacklers #overdosecrisis #overdose #deaths nytimes.com/2025/01/23/health/

The New York Times · Sacklers Up Their Offer to Settle Purdue Opioids Cases, With a New ConditionBy Jan Hoffman
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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

Delaware’s opioid fund differs from any other state

"The state has already awarded $15 million of its expected $250 million in an effort to save lives in a state that ranked fourth in the nation in per-capita overdose deaths in 2022. Last year, 527 people died from drug overdoses – a 2% decrease from the prior year.

But while other states left funding questions to individual jurisdictions – including counties, cities and even small towns – Delaware pooled all of its funding together in a statewide program, hoping to maximize its effect in a small state."

#delaware #opiods #overdosecrisis
spotlightdelaware.org/2024/10/

Spotlight Delaware · Delaware’s opioid fund differs from any other stateBy Nick Stonesifer
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Ms. Que Banh

When it comes to #reporting on #NorthAmerica’s #OverdoseCrisis — the worst in our history — #misleading articles can increase #stigma against people who use #drugs, skew the public’s understanding of the issue, inspire #BadFaith policy and make it more difficult for other #journalists to gain the trust and respect of #MarginalizedCommunities.

Which brings me to a splashy, new piece of drug #journalism from U.K.-based newspaper the Telegraph, falsely claiming that #decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs “made #Vancouver the #fentanyl capital of the world.”

The Telegraph’s story, like others before it, makes a number of other #misleading claims, including stating that #SafeSupply programs, which provide pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs, are making the situation worse because that supply is being sold to street users, including young people. Some safe supply is being diverted, but there is no evidence that it’s led to more deaths or teens forming new addictions.

Reporting like this misses important context about the #DrugCrisis, allowing #politicians to drum up fear about #HarmReduction rather than confront how decades of #prohibition have impacted the current #FentanylCrisis. After the 2010s crackdown on prescription pain pills, many people dependent on #opioids turned to heroin instead. Eventually, #DrugTraffickers began cutting heroin with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger, that is also cheaper and simpler to make and smuggle.

thestar.com/opinion/contributo

Toronto StarFearmongering about ‘drug dens’ is making Canada’s crisis worseBy Manisha Krishnan is an Emmy award-winning journalist who covers drug policy.
#CDNpoli#BCpoli#BreakTheStigma
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Susanne Mullis-Pum

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Maybe you‘d like to watch this documentary rottentomatoes.com/m/all_the_b directed by Laura Poitras.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin and her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis, told through her slideshows, intimate interviews and ground-breaking photography.

Rotten TomatoesAll the Beauty and the BloodshedDirected by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
#overdosecrisis#oxycontin#Poitras
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coolgrey

This is an act by a Mayor utterly lacking in any genuine vision - either generally or for any of the problems currently facing the City, such as the #OverdoseCrisis or the #DoomLoop - who just doubles down on bad policies (Drug War 2.0) or puts forward pretty but ineffective window dressing. ("A few concerts will rescue downtown.")

Her go to moves are: (1) more police, (2) what do rich VCs and real estate investors want me to?

These groups she listens to, though, are by and large even more bereft of real solutions than she is, but are desperate about any potential damage to their wealth, and so spaffing out anything they think might rescue them - as long as we pay for it.

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