Opioid Billionaire Arrested On Racketeering Charges
John Kapoor, billionaire founder of opioid spray manufacturer Insys Therapeutics, was arrested and charged with RICO conspiracy, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback law Thursday morning in Phoenix.
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Posted on 2017-10-26T20:54:40+0000
The Depression Thing
the depression thing: a neat story about depression and mental health. By Zach Holman.
Hasnain says:
"But still, I obviously think it’s worth talking about. People act so weirdly when it comes to this stuff, precisely because we don’t talk about it, even today, in 2017. Fuck flying cars and laser guns, I want transparent discussion of mental problems in society."
Posted on 2017-10-24T04:39:09+0000
Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?
Parents, therapists and schools are struggling to figure out whether helping anxious teenagers means protecting them or pushing them to face their fears.
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Sad read.
"Not every day was bad. During spring break in 2016, Jake’s father wrote: “Jake was relaxed and his old sarcastic, personable, witty self.” A week later, though, Jake couldn’t get through a school day without texting his mother to pick him up or hiding out in the nurse’s office. At home, Jake threatened suicide again. His younger siblings were terrified. “It was the depth of hell,” his mother told me."
Posted on 2017-10-23T23:36:02+0000
Bay Area hammered by loss of 4,700 jobs
The pace of hiring has slowed dramatically in the Bay Area, and three major metro areas in the region slashed jobs last month.
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Posted on 2017-10-23T19:11:21+0000
Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert
With Google Earth, archaeologists have uncovered strange stone structures that may have been built by nomadic tribes in ancient lava fields.
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Posted on 2017-10-22T16:55:38+0000
The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis
You’re aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You’ve heard of OxyContin, the pain medication to which countless patients have become addicted. But do you know that the company that makes Oxy and reaps the billions of dollars in profi...
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"Even so, hardly anyone associates the Sackler name with their company’s lone blockbuster drug. “The Fords, Hewletts, Packards, Johnsons—all those families put their name on their product because they were proud,” said Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine who has written extensively about the opioid crisis. “The Sacklers have hidden their connection to their product. They don’t call it ‘Sackler Pharma.’ They don’t call their pills ‘Sackler pills.’ And when they’re questioned, they say, ‘Well, it’s a privately held firm, we’re a family, we like to keep our privacy, you understand.’ ”"
Posted on 2017-10-22T05:51:41+0000
The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare | Fast Company
Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger? A closer look reveals a secret, multimillion-dollar battle to get you into bed.
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Extremely crazy business practices. Engrossing read
Posted on 2017-10-19T05:25:32+0000
The new MacBook keyboard is ruining my life
It’s so bad
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Posted on 2017-10-18T06:51:38+0000
Falling through the KRACKs
The big news in crypto today is the KRACK attack on WPA2 protected WiFi networks. Discovered by Mathy Vanhoef andFrank Piessens at KU Leuven, KRACK (Key Reinstallation Attack) leverages a vulnerabi…
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Posted on 2017-10-16T15:42:42+0000
Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping
KRACK attack allows other nasties, including connection hijacking and malicious injection.