Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers and a high of 74. Sunrise is 6:33 AM and sunset 7:06 PM for 12h 33m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 45.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1956, the…
Opioids
Crime, Documentary, Drug War, History, Opioids, Public Health
The Public Health Crisis before the Public Health Crisis
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Frontline’s Opioids, Inc. (full film): Pushing opioids. Bribing doctors. Making millions. FRONTLINE and the Financial Times investigate how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller up to 100 times stronger than heroin — and how some Wall Street investors looked the other way. Since 2007, communities like Whitewater have faced a Great Recession, an opioid…
Babbittry, Boosterism, Coronavirus, Corporate Welfare, Disinformation, Economy, Mendacity, Newspapers, Opioids, Public Health
A Newspaper’s Boosterism During a Pandemic
by JOHN ADAMS • • 8 Comments
A worthy person – a man or woman committed to reason, honesty, and seriousness of purpose – would have little respect for the Janesville Gazette. This critical view is not a new one, truly: the paper’s work has been inferior during the Great Recession, during an opioid crisis, during cheerleading for countless state and local…
Health, Opioids
Oxycodone consumption, US vs. Europe
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Via David Juurlink, Internal medicine, clinical pharmacology/toxicology, and drug safety research @UofTmedicine.
Drug War, Health, Law, Opioids
Treatment Should Always Be a First, Readily-Available Option
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
At the Asbury Park Press, Shannon Mullen, Lisa Robyn Kruse, Austin Bogues, and Andrew J. Goudsward report on the unfair disparity in the treatment of Crack v. Heroin use: Dannis Billups’ addiction nightmare began with an actual nightmare when he was about 4 years old. His daddy sat him on his knee and gave him a half-can…
America, City, Economy, Health, Local Government, Opioids
Opioid Crisis : Great Recession :: Dust Bowl : Great Depression
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
It’s a loose analogy (yet a useful one) to say that the opioid crisis is to the Great Recession as the Dust Bowl was to the Great Depression. These deep economic downturns did not cause, respectively, either the Dust Bowl or the opioid crisis, but each downtown did exacerbate the severity of its coincident calamity.…