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NEWS FLASH: It’s Not Doctors Who Created The Opioid Catastrophe – America’s Lawyer

NEWS FLASH: It’s Not Doctors Who Created The Opioid Catastrophe – America’s Lawyer

Posted by | Nov 1, 2017 | , , , , , |

Learn more about stories like this: AL.Law The Attorney General of Illinois says a drug company pushed doctors to prescribe its opioid drug beyond its intended use, fueling the ongoing opioid epidemic. Mike Papantonio, host of America’s Lawyer, discusses this with Dr. John Benedetto, C.O.O. of Brightside, an opioid treatment clinic. Transcript of the above video: Mike Papantonio: A drug company in Arizona will possibly spend up to $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the attorney general of Illinois. The state attorney alleges that the company pushed doctors to prescribe its opioid pain killer beyond...

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Trump’s Opioid Announcement Will Do Literally Nothing To Solve The Crisis

Trump’s Opioid Announcement Will Do Literally Nothing To Solve The Crisis

Posted by | Oct 27, 2017 | , , , , , , , |

Donald Trump has finally declared that the opioid epidemic in the US is a national health emergency. However, he did not direct any new funds towards fighting the epidemic, and his announcement was all fluff and no substance. The crisis is very real, but Trump’s response to it is certainly not, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains. Transcription: On Thursday, after months of saying he was going to do this, this is actually something he was supposed to do about six months ago, Donald Trump finally decided to declare a national health emergency over the opioid crisis here...

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Former DEA Whistleblower Drops Bombshell: CONGRESS and the DoJ are Complicit in Creating Opioid Crisis

Former DEA Whistleblower Drops Bombshell: CONGRESS and the DoJ are Complicit in Creating Opioid Crisis

Posted by | Oct 17, 2017 | , , , |

Over the past year, The Ring of Fire has presented a number of stories on America’s opioid addiction crisis and the role played by Big Pharma and major drug distributors. On October 15, however, a recent joint investigation by CBS 60 Minutes and the Washington Post confirmed what we have all long suspected: the drug industry has been enabled by complicit federal lawmakers. What is shocking, however, is that the Department of Justice – the nation’s top law enforcement agency – has been enabling these corporate criminals as well. According to whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi, DEA efforts to combat the...

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