LIFE - Long Islanders Fighting the Epidemic

01/14/2019

"Read this report and weep for your kids." New research also indicates an alarming uptick in overdoses among middle-aged women.

12/20/2018

The crisis will continue so long as it is profitable!

In just 10 months, the sixth-largest company in America shipped more than 3 million prescription opioids — nearly 10,000 pills a day on average — to a single pharmacy in

12/20/2018

After Jillian Bauer-Reese created an online collection of opioid recovery stories, she began to get calls for help from reporters. But she was dismayed by the narrowness of the requests, which sought only one type of interviewee. “They were looking for people who had started on a prescription from...

12/07/2018

Across Suffolk County in 2017, there were 396 opioid-related deaths — more than one a day for the year. Up to October 1 of this year, there have been 171 opioid deaths county-wide.

10/25/2018

"The cost of drugs in America is still soaring—the most recent uproar was sparked by the price of Mylan’s EpiPen allergy medicine, which has jumped by about 600% since 2007. Despite the furore, drug companies continue to charge exorbitant prices in America. Why?

The simple answer is because they can."

Skewed incentives and unhelpful rules give drug companies the upper hand

10/23/2018

A new Harvard study reveals how Big Pharma and federal government have colluded to allow the current opioid epidemic in the United States. The study, entitled The Opioid Epidemic: Fixing a Broken …

10/16/2018

The shameful callousness of a system complicit with the opioid tragedy

The request for the $3 million helicopter was marked as a red flag by the director of West Virginia's criminal justice programs.

10/03/2018

We must remember that this epidemic around opioids has economic roots, and crises like this persist in one form or another until we address the root problem in the profit motive to accumulate private capital

Could that money be used to fund a more humane health-care system?

09/07/2018

The suffering suffusing the streets has a source in over-supply and the drive for profit!

Purdue owner Richard Sackler listed as inventor of drug to wean addicts off painkillers

07/30/2018

LIFE was out today doing outreach in Mastic! Join us as we build a movement against the opioid crisis and say loudly