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Fentanyl Traffickers Exploit U.S. Trade Laws to Kill Americans
In January 2023, federal agents raided the home of a Tucson maintenance worker who had a side hustle hauling packages across the border...
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Oct 4, 20242 min read
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Denver Pot Industry Sees Recession After 11 Years Of Legalization
Denver's marijuana industry is experiencing its first-ever recession since recreational marijuana was legalized 11 years ago, Scripps...
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Sep 30, 20242 min read
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Nearly 20% Of U.S. Counties Lacked Opioid Treatment Programs In 2022
Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. counties lacked opioid treatment programs or office-based providers of buprenorphine, which reduces the risk of future...
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Sep 24, 20241 min read
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It's Not Entirely Clear Why Drug Overdose Deaths Have Dropped
Drug overdose deaths are decreasing sharply, a dramatic improvement in efforts to reverse the results of fentanyl’s spread in the...
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Sep 23, 20242 min read
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With Purdue Pharma Bankrupt, Its Global Counterparts Still Profit
Purdue Pharma, the drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid crisis through its aggressive marketing of highly addictive pain pills, is...
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Sep 17, 20241 min read
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Despite Drug War, Nixon Called Pot 'Not Particularly Dangerous'
Two years after former President Richard Nixon launched a war on drugs in 1971 , calling substance use the nation’s “public enemy No. 1,”...
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Sep 16, 20242 min read
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Can Philadelphia Jail Handle Cases From Proposed 'Wellness Court'?
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker ’s administration is developing a “neighborhood wellness court” in the city's Kensington...
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Sep 15, 20242 min read
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Social Media Becomes Hub for Teens' Obtaining Deadly Fake Pills
Fentanyl overdoses have become a leading cause of death for minors in the last five years, even as overall drug use has dropped slightly....
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Sep 12, 20242 min read
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California Ballot Measure Would Increase Some Theft And Drug Sentences
Proposition 36 is possibly the most contentious measure on the November ballot in California, Courthouse News reports . It has three main...
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Sep 11, 20242 min read
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Kentucky AG Unveils Drug Prevention Initiative
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman unveiled plans Tuesday to create a statewide drug prevention program, saying the youth-focused...
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Sep 11, 20242 min read
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Trump Backs Legal Recreational Pot in Florida, Harris Calls It 'Pandering'
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s Monday statement that he would vote to legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida sent...
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Sep 10, 20242 min read
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Classifying Pot As Less Dangerous Drug Becomes Campaign Issue
A decision on whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the U.S. won’t come until after the presidential election, a...
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Sep 3, 20242 min read
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Oregon Makes Hard Drugs Illegal Again After Reform Experiment
As of Sunday, it is again illegal to possess small amounts of hard drugs in Oregon. A first-in-the-nation law decriminalizing drugs...
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Sep 3, 20242 min read
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San Francisco’s 'Chill Packs' To Meth Users May Be Working
San Francisco is handing out antipsychotic drugs to homeless methamphetamine users who frequent psychiatric emergency services to help...
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Aug 28, 20242 min read
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Matthew Perry’s Death Highlights Issues With Ketamine Treatment
Actor Matthew Perry, who had a long history of addiction, became interested in ketamine during a rehabilitation stay in Switzerland,...
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Aug 20, 20242 min read
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Unusual Charges Against Two Doctors In Matthew Perry Death
Two doctors are among the five people charged in connection with "Friends" star Matthew Perry's death. Perry, 54, was found unresponsive...
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Aug 16, 20242 min read
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Several Charged In Actor Matthew Perry's Accidental Overdose Death
Several people were charged in Southern California on Thursday in connection with the accidental overdose death of actor Matthew Perry,...
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Aug 15, 20242 min read
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Can $18B In Opioid Settlement Funds Shift The Overdose Tide?
The opioid crisis has been ravaging the U.S. for decades, costing states millions of dollars in resources and claiming tens of thousands...
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Aug 14, 20242 min read
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Drug Overdose Patients’ Kids Need Help, Advocates Say
Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes...
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Aug 14, 20242 min read
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Could Mexican Cartel Leader's Ambush Lead To Bloody Drug War?
Ismael Zambada García, a founder of the Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, appeared in court in Texas on Thursday, one week after he was...
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Aug 2, 20242 min read
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