Study Shows Drug Company Marketing Has Led to More Overdose Deaths, According to Criminal Justice Expert
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE One of the biggest villains in the increase in opioid addiction and overdose deaths is the aggressive marketing of the drug companies, according to criminal justice expert Paul Brakke, who has published seven books on criminal justice with...
How Drug Companies Have Fueled the Opioid Crisis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Commonly, the widely-recognized opioid crisis is blamed on drug dealers, including illegal immigrants who are bringing in drugs across the border. But among the biggest villains are the manufacturers of these drugs. They have greatly contributed...
Criminal Justice Expert Hails Opioid Crisis Act of 2018
In all of the turmoil over investigations about Russian influence in U.S. elections and the attention paid to the bipartisan sentence reform act, another act passed by Congress has gone relatively unnoticed. However, according to criminal justice expert Paul Brakke, Congress’ recent passage of the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 (OCRA) in October is an important step in combating the growing opioid use disorder which now has its own acronym – OUD.
Giving New Anti-Overdose Drug to Inmates Inside or Leaving Prison
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Drugs and drug-overdoses have long been a problem in prisons, since according to some estimates, as many as 85% of prisoners are incarcerated due to crimes related to their use or sale of drugs. In fact, according to addiction medicine specialist...
What to Do About the Opioid Abuse Crisis by Criminal Justice Expert
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Everyone agrees there is an opioid crisis in America. As Paul Brakke, publisher of American Leadership Books and author of Crime in America, notes in a chapter in that book, there were more than 72,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017 from both...
