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Freedom Exposé

Who Profits from the Narcotic Epidemic?

Heroin and its Big Pharma-created spinoffs kill thousands of Americans each year. Corporate titans, not just cartel warlords, rake in billions from the deadly drugs. The losers are average people who get hooked on doctor-prescribed painkillers, and then in desperation turn to heroin.

Investigation

Pill Pushers — Purdue Pharma cloaked drug dealers in lab coats

Society

Coming Out of the Cold

World

Preventing Drug Abuse at Its Roots

Inside View

Narconon is the Answer

Contents

Editorial

Antidote for Bigotry: Liberty

“Religion is the first sense of community,” Mr. Hubbard wrote in 1976. “Where one can destroy or undermine religious institutions then the entire fabric of the society can be quickly subverted or brought to ruin.”

At a Glance

News Briefs

That brings us back to Califf, who while at Duke University received money from 23 Big Pharma outfits, and he has served as an official or director at Genentech and other companies. Califf has conceded that he has ties to more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies.

Media & Ethics

Media, Pharma Win; Citizens Lose

You may not have noticed, but the War on drugs is over. Who won the war? You will be surprised to learn that it wasn’t even one of the combatants.

The Lead

Revealing the Dangers of Psych Drugs

Throughout its history, Freedom has exposed the harmful and often deadly effects—long suppressed by the psychopharmaceutical establishment—that mind-altering drugs wreak upon bodies and minds.

The Lead

Exposing the CIA’s Involvement in the Cocaine Trade

Freedom’s investigation drew interest from many quarters, including Terry Reed, a CIA asset and pilot who had flown with Seal. Retired U.S. Army Special Forces Col. William Wilson, authored two Freedom articles describing how beacons, under the aegis of CIA operative Edwin Wilson and others, guided scores of cocaine-laden aircraft on an unmolested trafficking route from Colombia into Manuel Noriega’s Panama.

Cover Story

Pill Pushers — Purdue Pharma cloaked drug dealers in lab coats

Purdue Pharma promoted Oxy even though the company knew the drug was highly addictive. Patients became addicted, and then turned to heroin.

The Seductress That Leaves Death in Her Wake

Molly is a woman who could be a mother, a sister or a daughter, but the drug called Molly is a femme fatale that kills indiscriminately. The drug is never prescribed, and the chemicals it contains alter the minds of users, often fatally.

Society

Coming Out of the Cold

The ‘Housing First’ initiative: How big cities are coming up with new solutions to homelessness.

Society

Street Tales

More than 25,000 people are estimated to be homeless in the city and more than 53,000 in Los Angeles County (up from 44,000 last year)

Profile

Addicted to Money: Sackler Family Creates Deadly Legacy

Though Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler all became psychiatrists and affluent patrons of the arts, pride might not be the prevailing sentiment of Isaac and Sophie Sackler if they knew of the dishonorable methods their boys used to acquire their wealth

Into the Field

Preventing Drug Abuse at Its Roots

Young people are less likely to use drugs when they are educated on the dangers

“How Can I Help?”

How Mario Chirinos taught schools, cities and his nation about the evils of drugs

Amy Ronshausen on Prevention and Education

Amy Ronshausen is the Deputy Director of Drug Free America Foundation (DFAF), Inc. and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.), national nonprofit organizations that work to defeat drug legalization attempts, promote sound drug policies, and prevent drug abuse and addiction

One School at a Time

Heroin and opiate use, said the Executive Director of Drug-Free World New York, has reached “epidemic proportions” that are affecting countless teens in the public school system

Inside View

How to Quell the Beast of Addiction

Drug deaths now outnumber U.S. traffic fatalities. Drug addiction has more than doubled in the last 15 years. It demands effective solutions.

Narconon is the Answer

A revolutionary rehab program expands its mission to create a drug-free world

Ending Dependency — Stories of Narconon graduates

Ré broke free from her crippling drug dependency, successfully graduating from the Narconon program in 2012

L. Ron Hubbard essay

The Road Out

“It isn’t all that easy to help one’s fellows and to be helped in return. But the end product is itself worth a lot of slings and arrows.” — L. Ron Hubbard

Basic Principle

Answers to Drugs

L. Ron Hubbard discovered that the mind has two very distinct parts. One of these—the part that you consciously use and are aware of—is called the analytical mind. This is the portion of the mind which thinks, observes data, remembers it and resolves problems. It has standard memory banks which contain mental image pictures and uses the data in these banks to make decisions that promote survival.