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5 days ago2 min read
Purdue Pharma Files New Plan To Settle OxyContin Lawsuits
Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge Tuesday to consider the latest version of its plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 141 min read
Advocates Cite Harm Reduction Strategy To Cut Overdose Deaths
The Drug Enforcement Administration says that just two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal, and one gram can kill up to 500 people. In...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 142 min read
Narco Submarine Crew Arrested in Plot To Ferry 5K Kilos Of Coke
Colombian authorities are holding a crew of drug traffickers that a grand jury in New York charged with using a fleet of submarines to...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 112 min read
Former Philippine President Arrested Over Drug Killings
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday on a warrant from the International Criminal Court accusing him of...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 102 min read
Critics Say Trump Policies Could Leave U.S. Vulnerable To Fentanyl
President Trump's policies could leave the U.S. more vulnerable to dangerous synthetic drug trafficking from abroad, even as the...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 52 min read
Tariffs May Be Lifted If Fentanyl Flow Drops; Deaths Already Down
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, said on Tuesday that the tariffs President Trump imposed on Canada, Mexico and China could be...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 32 min read
Mexican Drive To Find Fentanyl At Border Yields Only 150 Pills
When President Trump threatened 25 percent tariffs unless Mexico put a halt to fentanyl trafficking, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 282 min read
Boston Trying Treatment Approach To Stop Open-Air Drug Market
As crime has reached a 7-year high in Boston's Downtown Crossing and the areas around the Common, Boston’s mayor, top cop and prosecutor...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 282 min read
Mexico Sends Drug Lord Quintero, Others to U.S. In Bid To Delay Tariffs
Mexico sent 29 drug cartel figures, including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a Drug Enforcement...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 272 min read
Illegal Drugs, Homelessness Linked, But Only 37% Use Regularly
Illegal drug use is deeply intertwined with homelessness, both increasing the risk of losing housing and arising or worsening when people...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 191 min read
Former Guatemalan Congressman Sentenced in International Drug Trafficking Conspiracy
A former Guatemalan congressman was sentenced in the U.S. to 18 years in federal prison last week after pleading guilty to being involved...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 172 min read
Why Is Buprenorphine Not Used More For Opioid Addiction?
Although the U.S. government had partly funded buprenorphine’s development as a treatment for opioid addiction, France was one of the...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 122 min read
CA Counties Struggle to Follow Through With Promised Mass Drug Treatment
It’s been three months since California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36 , a new law that pledged to provide “mass...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 72 min read
Fentanyl Trafficking Bill May Bring Harsher Federal Sentences
The Republican-led House passed legislation Thursday with significant Democratic support that would lead to harsher sentences for...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 52 min read
S.F. Mayor Given Unprecedented Powers To Fight Fentanyl Crisis
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to give newly elected Mayor Daniel Lurie greater powers and flexibility to expedite...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 32 min read
Why Overdose Deaths Fell Sharply, And Will The Decline Continue?
The story of Hamilton County, Ohio, which includes Cincinnati, is the story of much of the nation in 2025. Deaths from drug overdoses...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 222 min read
Philadelphia Launches 'Wellness Court' In Drug-Plagued Area
Philadelphia is opening a “neighborhood wellness court” in its Kensington neighborhood, an initiative in which police will arrest people...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 212 min read
Trump Designates Mexican Cartels As Foreign Terrorist Organizations
The Trump administration is designating Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations as part of a crackdown on drug trafficking...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 122 min read
MD Agency Ordered To Stop Drug Treatment After News Probe
Maryland regulators ordered an addiction treatment provider to stop seeing patients after an investigation by The New York Times and...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 102 min read
Fourth Wave of Opioid Deaths Blamed On Mixes of Drugs
It is impossible to tell whether a drug contains fentanyl by the taste or smell. “Somebody can believe that they can smell it or taste...
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