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ADDICTION IS A PRISON –

Jan. 22, 2025 – Mayor Cherelle Parker signed an executive order introducing what she calls “Wellness Court.” The City of Philadelphia is launching a new program in the Kensington neighborhood on Wednesday, with the goal of sending those with drug addictions to treatment rather than jail.The Kensington Wellness Court, which is a first of its kind in Philadelphia, offers an alternative to jail time for those struggling with substance abuse. Parker says her action is just one small step toward the larger goal of ending the humanitarian crisis in the Philadelphia neighborhood.

“We committed that we would end this opioid-driven humanitarian crisis once and for all,” Parker said during a news conference.

The mayor signed an executive order that gives the police department the option to make a summary arrest instead of a misdemeanor arrest for certain drug offenses. 

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VIDEO – MUSICAL INTERLUDE – 

TODAY – 70,587,708 views  since Aug 26, 2010. There’s something happening here

What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

It’s s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, hey, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, now, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down
Stop, children, what’s that sound
Everybody look what’s going down

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TURN THE OTHER CHEEK? –

Jan. 23, 2025 – Before slathering on your moisturizer, you might want to take a second to check the jar. 

First Aid Beauty recently voluntarily ordered back more than 2,700 pots of its best-selling Ultra Repair Cream in the coconut vanilla scent after a batch “intended for quarantine” was accidentally sold to customers.

This cult-favorite cream, which retails for $38 at Sephora, has built a massive fan base, fueled by rave TikTok reviews and skin care influencers like celebrity makeup artist Jill Powell, who called it “a drink of water for your skin.”

Fans, including The Post’s beauty gurus, swear by the Ultra Repair Cream for its ability to provide instant relief for dry, distressed skin and eczema. First Aid Beauty also promotes the cream as a solution for smoothing fine lines, reducing redness and strengthening the skin barrier. Only packages of Ultra Repair Cream with the lot numbers 24D44 and 24D45 with the expiration dates of April 10 and 11, 2026, are being recalled; however, they were distributed across the US in retail stores and online. 

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VIDEO – GREED KILLS – 

Jan. 23, 2025 – Walgreens’ senior managers ignored staff concerns and urged them to keep working with “pill mill” doctors over-prescribing opioid drugs, emails uncovered by the Justice Department and included in a lawsuit against the pharmacy chain allegedly show. The DOJ has obtained emails and internal documents from Walgreens allegedly showing that since August 10, 2012, Walgreens “filled millions of invalid controlled-substance prescriptions in violation of federal law.”

In one December, 2013 email, the director of Walgreens’ pharmacy compliance department explained that Walgreens’ pharmacy chief was “convinced” that Walgreens pharmacists “are over the top with GFD”— Walgreens’ Good Faith Dispensing Policy—and that Walgreens’ drug sales were being hurt as a result.

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NEW NOSE CANDY –

Jan. 23, 2025 – Regulators based their approval on the data culled from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Results showed the drug offered quick relief and much better efficacy than the placebo, Spravato works by targeting glutamate, the brain’s widespread excitatory neurotransmitter. While the mechanics remain murky, this novel treatment sets it apart from oral antidepressants.

Caregivers have administered the drug to more than 140,000 patients across 77 countries.

“The approval of intranasal esketamine as a monotherapy for TRD is a significant step forward, in that it will make this treatment a more appealing option for a subset of patients who’d prefer not to take a traditional oral antidepressant alongside intranasal esketamine,” Stella Mental Health Chief Psychiatrist Brian Boyle, MD, said. “Patients seek esketamine precisely because oral antidepressant medications haven’t helped enough or have caused intolerable side effects.

“Indeed, there are patients who may have benefited greatly from esketamine, who in the past have declined to pursue esketamine because of the requirement that they continue to take an oral antidepressant,” Boyle added. “Now, these patients will have access to what they need, an antidepressant treatment that gets them better, faster, without the side effects that often come with a medication that must be taken every day.”

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STILL TOO MANY – 

Jan. 23, 2025 – “They’re killing our people. They’re killing 250,000, 300,000 American people a year, not 100, like has been reported for 15 years. It’s probably 300,000.” Trump often exaggerates statistics to hype the scale of a crisis. He did so again when he signed an executive order targeting drug cartels … He repeated the claim a day later, with the caveat “I think.” But, as on Monday, he made more definitive statements during a Turning Point political rally in December — “The United States has lost 300,000 people a year” — and at a November campaign rally — “We lose 300,000 people a year to drugs entering from Mexico.”

But his claim of 300,000 deaths is false. Drug overdose deaths only began to exceed 100,000 four years ago, in part a legacy of the coronavirus pandemic, but they started to decline in 2023. As of the 12 months ending in August, the most recent data available, the number of deaths was about 90,000, the CDC says.

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HEAVEN TO HELL – 

Jan. 22, 2025 – Telmo Mineiro, a fisherman from São Miguel, takes a heavy drag on his cigarette and points to where he found a brick of uncut cocaine on the shore. “We were hunting for sea urchins,” he says, “we saw the pack and went to get it out of curiosity.” Another man told me that there was so much cocaine on the island that summer that teenagers were walking through the streets carrying shopping bags full of the powder.

Whether or not these accounts are entirely accurate, the unembellished truth is just as astonishing: in June 2001, hundreds of packages filled with extraordinarily pure cocaine washed up on São Miguel’s shores. People reported finding packets the size of hardback books bobbing in the shallow surf. Others were strewn on beaches, leaking their powdery contents into the sand.

On the morning of 7 June policemen discovered 271 packets by some rocks on the beach.

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“We ask you Holy One to turn our hearts from senseless violence and lead us in the ways of peace.” – Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

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VIDEO –

January 23, 2025 – Purdue, under the leadership of the Sackler families, invented, manufactured and aggressively marketed opioid products for decades. States and cities across the country said it fueled waves of addiction and overdose deaths. The pharmaceutical company introduced OxyContin in 1996. 

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PERFECT SPOKESWOMAN – 

Jan. 9, 2025 – After sleeping in the jungle for 26 days, Carolyn Wiger, 37, is more than ready to take on The Traitors. “I do think I need to calm down a little bit, but I really don’t want to—I’m just too excited!” The Minnesota native has dealt with addiction in the past, which helped inspire her career path—and prepared her well to play these types of strategic games.

“Active addiction is mental and emotional torture,” she told Parade in 2023 ahead of her Survivor debut. “It took me years to realize my mistakes don’t define me. I’ve worked hard to become this person I am proud of. I know this game will break me down but I am strong, resilient, and most importantly I believe in myself!”

Here’s what Carolyn has shared about her struggles—and how she’s helping others now.

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