December 2017 – Addiction Unscripted

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Recovery
December 19, 2017August 19, 2024
Opiate Addiction

Kingpins |OxyContin | Heroin and the Sackler-Sinaloa Connection » Addiction Unscripted

by Jason Smith Part I: The Come Up It’s not every day a drug kingpin makes Forbes magazine’s “Most Powerful People” list. But thanks to power generated by total domination of illegal narcotic sales, that’s exactly where Joaquín “Chapo” Guzman found himself in 2013, when Forbes ranked him the 67th [...]

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Recovery
December 6, 2017August 19, 2024
Alcohol Addiction

History of Drug Addiction and Alcoholism Epidemics in America » Addiction Unscripted

People are dying. We are in the midst of the third drug epidemic in the last 50 years and the second one involving opioids. And although its victims have at least garnered enough attention to push lawmakers towards many radical approaches to drug policy reform, the reaction to the contemporary [...]