Everyday Americans have now been given the opportunity to join prosecutors in fighting back and holding big pharmaceutical companies accountable for the opioid crisis. On Friday January 24th, the federal judge managing the bankruptcy case of Purdue Pharma set a deadline of June 30th, 2020, to file a claim ... Read More
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Transforming with The Ones We Love: 5 ways to improve the quality of your relationships in 2020
The start of a new year is a well-known marker for setting goals, making plans, and adjusting our sails. Self-improvement Is often at the root of our New Year’s resolutions, as working on your self can improve the quality of your life. It is not common to look at our dynamics with others in motivation to ... Read More
Can’t Keep Your New Year’s Resolution? Here’s Why
Does this sound familiar? Every time January rolls around, you purchase new gym shoes, study vegetable-based recipes (and subsequently buy a bunch of spinach), and commit to a year of gratitude, generosity, and physical exercise. You promise this year will be different. At the stroke of midnight, you swear to ... Read More
New Year, New Eats: Healthy Eating for 2020
Yay! It’s a new decade! Which means, there are new things that people are trying to accomplish is this new period of life. Some people are going after new careers; others are trying to get back into school. As for me, I’m trying to continue this healthy living, which, of course, means healthy eating. In ... Read More
Holiday Shopping
I remember during the holidays I used to hide in the bathrooms of department stores to shoot up dope. Trying to look inconspicuous when I left, but all the clerks and customers knew I was the druggy kid tripping out in Macy’s. Now seven years later I’m looking for a Christmas gift. I don’t know what to get ... Read More
The Gifts of Light and Laughter
I don’t suppose that the poet William Wordsworth had the holiday season in mind when he wrote these famous words: The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; After all, he was writing in the nineteenth century, long before the commercialization of ... Read More
Audits reveal Sackler family withdrew 10.7 Billion from Purdue Pharma
Audits produced from Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy proceedings on Monday December 16th reveal that the Sackler family—the family who owns Purdue—have withdrawn $10.7 billion from the company since 2008. The start of these withdrawals correlates to when head executives of Purdue pleaded guilty for misleading ... Read More
Guarding Your Sobriety through the Holidays
"There’s no place like home for the holidays," according to the song made famous by Perry Como in the 1950s and played every holiday season ever since: Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays 'Cause no matter how far away you roam If you wanna to be happy in a million ways For the holidays you ... Read More
Alternatives to Oxycontin are not as safe as hoped
In the midst of the opioid epidemic and decline of Oxycontin, doctors are left scrambling to try and solve the issue that Oxycontin promised: relieve for chronic pain. As an alternative, Doctors started to embrace a drug called Gabapentin—traditionally a preventive drug for seizures—as a way to treat chronic ... Read More
A Ray of Confidence and Boldness: Gabby Fe
In today’s society, one of the things that we tend to struggle with is living in complete confidence in who we are. A lot of the time, the world tells us that we have to look and act a certain way in order to be fully accepted. Breaking free from these societal norms and encouraging others along the way, plus ... Read More