Rod MacTaggart

How Many People Have To Die From OxyContin Addiction Before The FDA Takes Action?

The "King of Pop" Michael Jackson is dead at only 50, joining many other celebrities and thousands of ordinary people whose untimely deaths associated with painkillers like OxyContin could have been avoided by a timely medical drug detox. What is it going... Read >

Save Our Kids, Save Our Future, Ban OxyContin Now

Adolescents exposed to opioid painkillers, especially OxyContin, are more likely to abuse opioids and other drugs and risk addiction in later life, say researchers. A ban on the drug will save countless lives. Recent research from Rockefeller Universit... Read >

OxyContin Addiction Ignores Social And Geographic Boundaries

As the grass-roots movement heats up to ban OxyContin, the opioid painkiller implicated in thousands of deaths, people addicted the drug from all levels of society, from cities, towns and villages, continue to search for effective OxyContin detox and reha... Read >

Treat Heroin Addiction With Heroin, Say So-called Addiction Experts

Instead of an effective heroin detox followed by long-term rehabilitation, so-called addiction "experts" are recommending heroin addicts be "treated" with more heroin. Have you ever injured yourself -- hit your thumb with a hammer, banged your knee on ... Read >

OxyContin Addiction: Are You A Victim Of ‘Radio Medicine’?

Thousands of patients arriving for OxyContin detox are victims of the all-too-common medical practice of smothering pain with the addictive narcotic, instead of finding the cause of the pain and curing it. If you were driving down the road and a strang... Read >

Federal Official Says Prescription Drug Addiction Is A Serious National Health Threat

The diversion and abuse of prescription drugs for non-medical use is a serious threat to public health and safety, and medical drug detox is the preferred first step in recovery. Nearly a third of new drug abusers begin their downward spiral into addi... Read >

New OxyContin Detox Protocol Helps Anyone Overcome Addiction

OxyContin addiction is the new doorway drug to ruined careers and lost lives, even when it begins as a legitimate prescription for the pain of injury and illness. Thousands of Americans are becoming dependent and addicted to the opioid painkiller OxyCo... Read >

Connecticut Wants Federal Stimulus Grant To Combat “Doctor Shopping” & Prescription Drug Addict

An effective, proven medical drug detox program before drug rehab would be the best way the state could help its many prescription drug addicts. Connecticut is asking for more than $620,000 in federal government stimulus grants to combat "doctor shopp... Read >

Medical Drug Detox Should Follow Naloxone Treatment For Opioid Overdoses

Victims of prescription drug addiction and street drug addicts who overdose on opioids can often be saved by the drug naloxone, but the event should be followed immediately with admission to a medical drug detox facility, followed by lengthy drug rehab. ... Read >

Finding A Workable Methadone Detox Has Never Been More Crucial

As the death toll from methadone soars across the country and methadone addiction continues to rise, the need for effective treatment has never been more important. State death statistics across the country are showing that prescription drugs continue ... Read >

OxyContin Detox May Become Growth Industry In Affluent Mukilteo

In Mukilteo, WA, the realm of millionaire software executives, where even the median income is $90,000+ a year, OxyContin addiction plays no favorites. In the city of Mukilteo, an affluent suburb at the northern extremes of Seattle, WA, soccer moms and... Read >

Massachusetts Launches Hearings Into OxyContin Addiction ‘Epidemic’

Legislative hearings to probe the OxyContin and heroin epidemic in Massachusetts will consider ways to battle opiate abuse in the state, including expanding OxyContin detox and drug rehab services. Massachusetts State Senator Steven A. Tolman (D-Boston... Read >

Prescription Drug Addiction Not Helped By Treatment Center Budget Cuts

Medical drug detox and rehab programs are being targeted by state and city budget cuts, leaving many addicts with no place to go for help except hospital emergency wards or jails, both of which cost taxpayers more in the long run. All across the countr... Read >

Methadone Detox That Works Means A Drug Free Life Is Possible

The result of so-called ‘treatment' for opioid addiction with methadone is simply a life-long methadone addiction. Real treatment means helping opioid addicts become drug free, and such treatment now is available. New medical protocols have been deve... Read >

Ireland’s Drug Czar Condemns Long-Term Methadone Maintenance

The Obama administration and all state legislatures could learn a lesson from Ireland, where John Curran, Ireland's minister for drugs strategy, has called for a review of methadone addiction, and how effective methadone programs actually are at getting p... Read >