by Helen Redmond | Apr 1, 2026 | addiction treatment, clinics, DEA, Drugs, Excerpt, Harm Reduction, health care, Methadone, Opioid Crisis, Opioids, war on drugs
Indulge me. Imagine you take a medication that is vital to your health: as vital as oxygen or water. You can’t go a single day without it because you are completely dependent on it to think, to work, to take care of your family, to just be you. And if you miss a dose? A withdrawal hellscape awaits: extreme muscle and bone pain, intense cravings, vomiting, insomnia, severe anxiety, cramps…
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by Mike Ludwig | Dec 19, 2025 | Boat Strikes, Donald Trump, Drug War, fentanyl, News, Opioid Crisis, Trump Administration, Venezuela, war on drugs
As President Donald Trump exploits fear about fentanyl to justify military aggression in Latin America, experts warn that his administration’s choice to slash federal support for public health programs threatens to erode progress in reducing fatal overdoses linked to synthetic opioids. Trump issued an executive order on Monday declaring fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction” that could be…
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