Evil News | Evil News Crazy and Astonishing News

opioid epidemic

04/09/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Harvard analysis determines: Doctors who prescribe opioids receive HUGE kickbacks from pharma corporations

The opioid epidemic seems to be on everyone’s minds these days, with the Trump administration having recently declared it to be a major “public health emergency,” and one supposedly caused by “drug traffickers” – for which President Trump himself wants to see harsher penalties against “dealers.” But a recent study out of Harvard University reveals […]

10/12/2017 / By Mike Adams

All the Health Ranger’s warnings about Big Pharma are now coming true thanks to the opioid epidemic… and journalists are finally sounding the alarm

The drug industry is a racket, a scheme, a chemical con game that has mastered the dark art of turning human beings into profit centers while pretending to be searching for “cures.” But if you’ve been reading Natural News for long, you already knew all this. I’ve been sounding the alarm on Big Pharma drug […]

10/12/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

New Jersey lawsuit accuses Big Pharma of “nothing short of EVIL”

A new lawsuit that accuses a pharmaceutical company of conduct that is “nothing short of evil” echoes the sentiment of many people who have suffered or lost loved ones due to the unsavory practices of Big Pharma. Big Pharma’s list of wrongdoings is rather lengthy, but the offense that is at the heart of the […]

02/22/2017 / By Vicki Batts

VA hospitals under investigation for missing drugs as opioid theft reaches catastrophic level

America’s opioid epidemic has hit a new low, as VA hospitals across the country are reporting a stark increase in opioid theft, missing prescriptions and unauthorized use of the drugs by employees since 2009, according to a new report from The Associated Press. Federal officials are launching more thorough investigations at Department of Veterans Affairs […]

02/06/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

WA city taking OxyContin drug maker to court over “gross negligence, creating a public nuisance, and other misconduct”

City lawyers in Everett, Washington are preparing to sue the makers of OxyContin, a leading opioid painkiller, blaming it for its role in the United States’ opioid and heroin epidemic. The city filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma claiming they knew the drug was being illegally trafficked to residents and did not act to stop […]

02/03/2017 / By Daniel Barker

Big Pharma creates heroin vaccine to battle opioid epidemic they helped create

The ongoing U.S. opioid epidemic is largely attributable to the pharmaceutical industry in the first place, but Big Pharma now says it may be able to provide a solution: a heroin vaccine. Scientists are working on bringing opioid vaccines to the market in as little as two years, but it remains to be seen whether […]

01/31/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Pharma company raised the price of Opioid overdose “antidote” six-fold to profit from epidemic

It is no secret that corruption is an industry-wide problem when it comes to pharmaceuticals. But now, it seems that corruption has taken an even more sinister twist. As the number of Americans overdosing on Big Pharma’s golden ticket — the opioid painkiller — continues to increase, it seems that one pharma company has taken […]

05/09/2016 / By Greg White

Sharp rise in opioid-related hospitalizations: Up 72% and costs nearly quadruple to $15 billion

It’s no secret that the country is experiencing an opioid epidemic. Sketching a picture of the problem at hand, a recent study published in Health Affairs found that the number of patients hospitalized because of opioids between 2002 and 2012 skyrocketed by 72 percent, and that in patient charges related to opioid hospitalizations reached a […]

1 of 1