(Natural News) Drugmaker Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty in last month to three federal charges following its bankruptcy filing almost a year before. The manufacturer of OxyContin agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges – including violation of a federal anti-kickback law, violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. […]

(Natural News) Opioid-related overdose is a top concern in the U.S., where it claims around 130 lives every day, according to data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In the midst of this crisis, people have turned to alternative treatments for pain relief. A therapy that’s gaining ground is acupuncture, a form of traditional Chinese […]

(Natural News) The number of people killed by the painkiller fentanyl doubled in just a single year, according to a recent report from the FDA and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fentanyl overdose is believed to be responsible for the accidental death of singer-songwriter Prince in April 2016. For the first […]

(Natural News) John Stewart was at the helm of Purdue Pharma in 2013. He was in the business of making Oxycontin, a prescription opioid painkiller that has addicted an estimated 1.9 million Americans and led to countless overdose deaths. In fact, between 1999 and 2012, accidental overdoses from prescription painkillers quadrupled. In 2015, a gut-wrenching […]