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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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Jan 102 min read
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Scientists Study Pot Blind Spot: How Does Drug Use Affect Driving
In Colorado, where the U.S. experiment with legal recreational marijuana began a decade ago, a team of federal scientists has been paying...
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Jan 32 min read
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Another Homeland Security Agent Charged With Selling 'Bath Salts'
Another Department of Homeland Security agent has been charged in federal court with using a confidential informant to sell illicit drugs...
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Jan 32 min read
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San Francisco Drug Deaths Down Notably, Narcan Gets Credit
After surging during the COVID pandemic into a crushing public health emergency, drug overdose deaths in San Francisco plummeted in 2024,...
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Jan 32 min read
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Critics Assail Philadelphia's Cutbacks In Opioid-Plagued Area
Over the last year in the Kensington neighborhood, at the epicenter of Philadelphia’s opioid crisis, elected officials cut funding for a...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 31, 20242 min read
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Database Shows How States Spent $6B In Opioid Settlements
In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun spending billions in opioid settlements paid by companies...
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Dec 30, 20242 min read
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Cocaine Trade Thriving Worldwide, Led By Albanians
In less than a decade, Dritan Rexhepi built a cocaine business that ran from the fields of Colombia to the ports of Ecuador and on to the...
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Dec 29, 20242 min read
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Fentanyl Antidote Saving Lives, Not Ending the Ovderdose Crisis
The death toll from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids is falling for the first time since the drugs began flooding the streets a...
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Dec 23, 20242 min read
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Teen Drug Has Not Rebounded From Decline During COVID-19
Teen drug use hasn’t rebounded from its drop during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results from a large...
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Dec 18, 20242 min read
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McKinsey To Pay $650M, Avoids Prosecution In Opioid Case
The McKinsey & Company consulting firm agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work for opioids...
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Dec 13, 20242 min read
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Drug Overdose Deaths Decline, Possible Explanations Differ
In 2022, the U.S. reached a grim peak in drug overdose deaths: Nearly 108,000 people died , more than twice the number who died in...
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Dec 13, 20242 min read
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Homeland Security Agents Allegedly Sold 'Bath Salt' Drugs
Two Department of Homeland Security agents in Utah sold drugs that were previously seized as evidence through an informant in an illegal...
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Dec 11, 20241 min read
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Are Big Opioid Settlements Around The U.S. Being Used Wisely?
People with substance use disorder across the U.S. are not getting a formal say in how most of the approximately $50 billion in opioid...
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Dec 9, 20242 min read
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Fl Prosecutor Tries to Void 2,600 Convictions in Crack Cocaine Sting
A Florida prosecutor will try to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine manufactured by the Broward...
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Dec 8, 20242 min read
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Many Drug Offenders Still In Prison Despite Hunter Biden Pardon
While Hunter Biden will not spend a day inside a prison cell for his offenses; the same can’t be said for tens of thousands of people...
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Dec 3, 20242 min read
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Two Million Over 65 Are Addicted, Showing Drugs' Lingering Damage
Jerry Schlesinger, 72, of Los Angeles tried heroin at 15. Today, he has been sober for two years. In between, decades of illicit drug use...
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Dec 2, 20242 min read
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In Letter, Lawmakers Push Biden To Do More On Marijuana Reform Before Term Ends
Several progressive lawmakers have written a letter calling on President Biden to take additional steps on federal marijuana law before...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 27, 20241 min read
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Will Trump's Tariff Threat Harm U.S.-China Fentanyl Cooperation?
At the heart of President-elect Trump’s threat on Monday to impose new tariffs on China is a recurring issue: the flow into the U.S. of...
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Nov 26, 20242 min read
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Report Disputes Idea That Rikers Inmates Get Fentanyl By Mail
In 2022, New York City’s jails commissioner, Louis Molina, issued a dire warning to local lawmakers: fentanyl was pouring into Rikers...
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Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Overdose Deaths Down As Fentanyl Potency On Streets Weakens
After years of relentless rises in overdose deaths, the U.S. has seen a remarkable reversal. For seven straight months, drug fatalities...
Crime and Justice News
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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