Paul Wright, in treatment for opioid addiction in June 2017 at the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic in Youngstown Ohio, shows a photo of himself from 2015, when he almost died from an overdose. AP Photo/David Dermer Robin Feldman, University of California, Hastings “A crippling problem.” “A total epidemic.” “A problem like nobody understands.” These are…
NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Shkreli, the eccentric former pharmaceutical CEO notorious for a price-gouging scandal and for his snide “Pharma Bro” persona on social media, was convicted Friday on federal charges he deceived investors in a pair of failed hedge funds. A Brooklyn jury deliberated five days before finding Shkreli guilty on three of…
Harminder Singh, South China Morning Post City’s consumer watchdog tested 60 types of oil and found 46 with toxic carcinogen glycidol, for which there are no safe levels Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has found more than 40 samples of cooking oil to contain contaminants and a cancer-causing substance. The Consumer Council [1] tested 60 types…
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – (July 11, 2017) – Calling it one of the most powerful business enterprises on the planet, the Consumer Safety Coalition urged consumers to exercise caution when shopping online during Amazon’s (AMZN) Prime Day today and to be mindful when shopping of unsafe counterfeit products and deceptive pricing tactics the online retailing…
Written by Jessica Wakeman | Healthline In 2014, more than 240 million prescriptions were written for opioids. That is more than enough to “give every American adult their own bottle of pills,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services noted. That same year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that 2…
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times A new report on opioid use among privately insured Americans has found that diagnoses of opioid addiction increased almost fivefold between 2010 and 2015, ticking up dramatically in 2014. During the same period, the delivery of medication-assisted addiction treatment — the method most likely to result in successful abstinence…