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Drug overdose

What if I told you that the pharmaceutical industry has very little to do with the epidemic of opioid drug overdoses and deaths in America?  What…
Today on Moving Forward we will be discussing the politics surrounding the National Football League with our guest Eric Draitser. Eric Draitser is an independent…
AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome The first publisher to cover the AIDS epidemic talks to the first journalist to break the story of the Chronic…
On today's program, Vince speaks with Andrew J. Bacevich about his most recent book, "America's War for the Greater Middle East." Bacevich is Professor of…
Richard “Red” Lawhern is a brilliant, passionate, hardworking nonmedical advocate for pain patients. Listen to this show and you will never look at pain medications…
As our country grapples with an “unprecedented opioid epidemic,” Congress is taking steps to take away an important tool to fight it — the Affordable…
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 states saw increases in overdose deaths resulting from the abuse of heroin and…
The life expectancy for Americans has declined for the first time in 23 years. Data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the…
Banned-Books Week 2016 is here, and Mickey spends the hour in conversation with three defenders of the "freedom to read." They explore some of the…
Over the past year we have heard much about the opioid epidemic gripping the U.S., as Big Pharma rakes in billions from people getting hooked…
Prescription drug overdoses have become alarmingly common in the U.S., with opioid painkillers, such as Vicodin and Oxycontin, among the drugs most frequently making headlines.…
In his State of the State address Tuesday night, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder apologized for his handling of the Flint water crisis, which has left…