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- As the opioid epidemic rages, the fight against addiction moves to an Ohio courtroom
Katie Zezima, Washington Post, April 7, 2018 As communities continue to reel and police and emergency responders struggle to keep the addicted alive, the biggest fight against the opioid epidemic is being waged in a federal courthouse in Cleveland, where hundreds of lawsuits brought by cities, counties, Native American tribes and unions have been brought together into one case with a scope that rivals anything seen in the U.S. legal system.
- Fresh Air - An Addict, Now Clean, Discusses Needle Exchanges And 'Hope After Heroin'
An Addict, Now Clean, Discusses Needle Exchanges And 'Hope After Heroin' NPR, Fresh Air, March 8, 2016 "When she was 17, Tracey Helton Mitchell was prescribed an opioid pain killer after getting her wisdom teeth extracted. The medicine helped her deal with the pain related to the extraction, but when the prescription ran out, her desire for its euphoric high remained. That's when she turned to heroin. "As a teenager, Mitchell imagined heroin to be glamorous, but she found it wasn't once she became an addict. She tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that the drug ruined her health and her self-esteem. She lived in an alley, shot drugs into the bottom of her feet, sold her body for money and was jailed several times. She was also featured in a 1999 documentary about addicts called Black Tar Heroin."
- NPR Fresh Air - 'Narconomics': How The Drug Cartels Operate Like Wal-Mart And McDonald's (36 min)
'Narconomics': How The Drug Cartels Operate Like Wal-Mart And McDonald's NPR Fresh Air, with Terry Gross. February 15, 2016 "When Tom Wainwright became the Mexico correspondent for The Economist in 2010, he found himself covering the country's biggest businesses, including the tequila trade, the oil industry and the commerce of illegal drugs."
- Opioid Overdoses: Mass Casualty Zones In America
1A with Joshua Johnson, WAMU, June 20, 2017 Last year alone, more Americans died from a drug overdose than were lost fighting the war in Vietnam. Opioids, including pain medicines, are turning some cities into mass casualty zones. President Trump promised to “dramatically expand access to treatment.” So what’s been done? And what should we do? Host: Joshua Johnson. Guests Lenny Bernstein Health and medicine reporter, The Washington Post Dr. Leana Wen Baltimore City Health Commissioner; emergency physician Phil Plummer Sheriff, Montgomery County, Ohio
- State of Things - Meet TROSA Founder Kevin McDonald
Meet TROSA Founder Kevin McDonald
WUNC The State of Things
By Laura Lee & Frank Stasio
TROSA website: http://trosainc.com/
- Thom Tillis - Opioid-abuse crisis prompts bipartisan counterattack
Opioid-abuse crisis prompts bipartisan counterattack Sen. Thom Tillis, Guest columnist, Herald-Sun, Apr 1, 2016
- What Happens When The Heroin Epidemic Hits Small Town America? (25 min)
WFMY Fresh Air, with Dave Davies, June 29, 2017 West Virginia has the highest drug overdose death rate in the country. New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot interviewed addicts, their families and health professionals to understand why.