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A Corpus Christi mother is in custody this week after her arrest last week following an investigation from Texas’ Department of Public Safety. Esmeralda Garza, 29, is accused of selling her 7-year-old son to settle drug debts she had accumulated. While the DPS Special agents were conducting a drug bust at a home within Corpus Christi,…

Art imitates life as they say, and artist Fernando Luis Alvarez brought a depiction of daily life right to pharmaceutical executives front door. Last Friday Alvarez installed an 800-pound reminder of Perdue Pharma’s legacy unleashed onto millions of Americans over the past decade, a bent spoon with what looks like the remnants of burnt heroin…

42,000 lives lost to Opioids in 2016. 20,000 of those due to synthetic opioids like Fentanyl, a medication prescribed in more extreme cases of chronic pain patients. Addiction is rampant and crackdowns from the doctors limiting their prescription amounts, States are limiting the length of time patients can receive a prescription for and Medication manufacturers…

Perdue’s legal team are sure to be busy for years to come, thanks to another state suing the pharmaceutical company responsible for pushing the addictive opiates that have become an overwhelming nightmare for nearly every government agency in the US. Massachusetts state attorney general Mara Healy wants her state to be listed along with the…

A breakthrough medical development is bringing out the worst kind of people in the drug treatment industry. Patients in a vulnerable position are being lured by profiteers looking to exploit users for their own financial gain, and taking away the integrity of drug rehabilitation as a whole. Breakthrough medical devices are being developed to assist…