From 1999 to 2021, opioids caused over 70 percent of the one million drug overdose deaths in America. The Opioid Crisis was declared a public health emergency in 2017, owing largely to Purdue Pharma’s 1996 release of OxyContin: a potent opioid similar to heroin. Purdue Pharma’s false advertising of the drug’s addictiveness led to overprescription, […]
At the end of his talk with the NU College Republicans Wednesday night, Howie Carr handed out refrigerator magnets. One featured Tamerlan “Speedbump” Tsarnaev, as Carr referred to him, bloodied on a coroner’s table after his brother Dzhokhar “Shipstain” ran him over in a stolen getaway car in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. […]