2016 will be remembered as the year of the fentanyl crisis on the West Coast. In Vancouver alone, the highly addictive opioid, which is 100 times more potent than morphine, was responsible for up to 800 deaths as a result of overdose last year in Vancouver alone. Doctors are saying
Oh, those sweet, sweet white lines. Sure, they wreak havoc on our dopamine levels and cause long-term bodily harm – and it would be easier to withdraw your tongue from a frozen metal pole than give up the rush cold turkey – but rules are meant to be broken. No,
As I sat in a waiting room last week, I eavesdropped on an older gentleman’s telephone conversation. He greeted the person on the other end, remarked about the weather, and exchanged the usual niceties. Then he got down to the nitty gritty – a list of his ailments. His knees
Not to be outdone by AIDS drug extortionist Martin Shkreli, a highly profitable Dublin-based pharmaceutical company enacted its own overnight price-gouging scheme when it raised the price of a drug from $33 to $680 a vile. The drug in question is Synacthen Depot, which is used to treat infants in Canada suffering from a rare
Remember Martin Shkreli, 2015’s Weasel of the Year, the type of guy who’d invite you to a dinner party, feed you anesthesia, remove your organs, and then sell them back to you for triple the market price? Who bought the rights to an AIDS drug and raised the price per
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