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New Designer Opioid Cychlorphine Raises Alarm In Oklahoma
Health experts are raising alarms over a new designer opioid that has proven resistant to Narcan, the medication commonly used to reverse opioid overdoses. First identified in Europe, the drug known as cychlorphine has since spread to Canada and the United States, where it is already being linked to fatal overdoses.
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Oklahoma’s Bureau of Narcotics Takes Action to Outlaw Illicit Sedatives
Illegal labs are flooding the market with "designer benzos" that resist overdose reversal. Discover how the OBN is fighting back against these synthetic sedatives and why professional rehab is the only way to stay safe from counterfeit pills and toxic drug mixtures.
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OBN Warning on Nitazenes Reveals That Cartels Continue to Develop New Formulas for the Illicit Market
The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) has warned Oklahomans that the number of life-threatening drugs on the illicit market continues to expand. For most of a decade, fentanyl was the most devastating drug taking American lives. Now it is joined by a series of new drugs called nitazenes.
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Is Increasing Unemployment Associated with Increasing Drug Use and Overdose Statistics?
The sad story of Gary, Indiana provides a vivid illustration of research that finds increasing unemployment correlates with increasing overdose losses.
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Why Is the Oklahoma Trial of Opioid-Maker Johnson & Johnson So Significant?
Many eyes are watching Oklahoma State’s lawsuit against pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson. The outcome of this trial could set a precedent for the nearly 2,000 other lawsuits filed against pharmaceutical businesses and their executives.
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Landmark Opioid Lawsuit in Oklahoma Reveals More Pharmaceutical Culpability
In a lawsuit filed by the State of Oklahoma, we are learning more about how Johnson & Johnson helped create the opioid epidemic that has robbed more than a half-million Americans of their lives.
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I Could Never Put Myself First
Before Narconon, I never gave myself any time to focus and put myself first. This is the first time in my life that I can now do that. I know that I never have to be alone. I put my sobriety first, and everything else falls into place for me.
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Tiny Midwest Town Closes Beer Stores to Save Lives
Right on the Nebraska-South Dakota line, four liquor stores in a town of 14 residents move 4 million cans of beer into the hands of drinkers each year. The effects of all this alcohol on the dry reservation adjacent to town are disastrous. The closure of these stores is a single step in the right direction.
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Enid, Oklahoma Makes “Top 15” List of Addicted Cities
Making the Top 15 List of Addicted Cities is not exactly something the Enid Chamber of Commerce wants to promote to visitors. But perhaps it’s better that the citizens of Enid know the situation in their own town.
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Loading Our Senior Citizens Up with Pills… That May End Up on the Illicit Market
If you look closely, there are plenty of signs that senior citizens may simply be loaded up with pills rather than receiving the right care to heal their injuries or ailments. In some cases, this has put so many pills in the hands of the elderly that they take to selling them just to make ends meet.…