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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...
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Nov 22, 20242 min read
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McKinsey May Pay $600M In Opioid Settlement With U.S. Government
McKinsey is in the final stages of negotiating a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve a criminal investigation into the consulting...
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Nov 22, 20242 min read
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DEA Stops Random Airport Searches After Inspector General Review
Drug Enforcement Administration agents no longer will conduct random searches of travelers at airports after an investigation by a...
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Nov 22, 20241 min read
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Drug OD Deaths Continue Steep Decline, CDC Says
Drug overdose deaths dropped 14% in the 12-month period ended June 30 compared to the same period a year before, providing more evidence...
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Nov 14, 20242 min read
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Will Trump Continue Biden-Era Policies On Cannabis?
Despite coming to the White House with a laundry list of policies he wants to change or reverse, there are signs that cannabis could be a...
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Nov 12, 20242 min read
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Can Technology Help Stem Overdoses That Happen In Solitude?
They die alone in bedrooms, bathroom stalls and cars. Each year States, tens of thousands of fatal overdoses unfold in solitude, with no...
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Nov 5, 20242 min read
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As More States May Legalize Pot, Use By Adults At Historic High
Voters in four states will weigh in Tuesday on ballot initiatives that would legalize the recreational or medical use of marijuana....
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Nov 5, 20242 min read
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Police Break Up Drug 'Superlab' Making Fentanyl In Canada
Canadian officers have dismantled what they say was the largest, most sophisticated drug lab in the nation's history, seizing a massive...
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Nov 3, 20242 min read
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Massachusetts To Vote On Decriminalizing Psychedelics
Next week, Massachusetts could become the third state to decriminalize the psychedelic mushroom psilocybin. Oregon was first, in 2020,...
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Oct 31, 20242 min read
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Dismaying Treatment Advocates, Pols Call For Drug Crackdown
There’s a rare point of agreement among Republican and Democratic candidates this election year: the U.S. has a drug problem and it’s...
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Oct 28, 20242 min read
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Black Overdose Deaths Rise As White Fatalities Decrease
U.S. overdose deaths decreased by more than 12 percent between May 2023 and May 2024, according to new federal data , a major development...
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Oct 28, 20242 min read
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‘Pink Cocaine’ Cocktail Is Newest Club Scene Drug
A powder called “pink cocaine,” made up of a revolving group of drugs, has become a dangerous and increasingly popular part of the club...
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Oct 22, 20242 min read
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Arkansas High Court Nixes Ballot Measure Expanding Medical Pot
Arkansas voters won’t get to vote on a ballot initiative to expand medical marijuana after the state Supreme Court ruled the measure...
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Oct 22, 20241 min read
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Record Drop in Drug Overdose Deaths In Past Year, CDC Says
Drug overdose deaths dropped a record amount during the past year, say provisional data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Oct 17, 20242 min read
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Marijuana Tainted With Mold Cleared For Sale In Some States
Marijuana’s humid growing conditions encourage dangerous mold. States where marijuana is legal make growers hire laboratories to check...
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Oct 17, 20242 min read
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Judge Allows Case Against San Francisco Over Drug Use And Crime To Move Forward
On Tuesday, a federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit over drug use and crime in San Francisco's Tenderloin brought by unnamed...
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Oct 16, 20242 min read
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Former Mexico Public Safety Chief To Be Sentenced In U.S. For Taking Bribes To Aid Drug Traffickers
Mexico’s former public security chief is set to be sentenced in a U.S. court on Wednesday after being convicted of taking bribes to aid...
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Oct 16, 20242 min read
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As Overdose Deaths Decline in East, They Increase In Western States
Despite a national dip, overdose deaths are still on the rise in many Western states as the epicenter of the nation’s crisis shifts...
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Oct 14, 20242 min read
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Overdose Deaths Down Sharply As Fentanyl Looms As Campaign Issue
Overdose deaths appear to be declining sharply in the U.S., a sign that efforts to combat the scourge of lethal fentanyl may be paying...
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Oct 7, 20242 min read
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As Pot Addiction Grows, Side Effects Present 'Clear Warning Sign'
In Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they consume it practically all day, every day — “a remarkably...
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Oct 4, 20242 min read
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