By Cliff Kincaid Clueless FBI agents and other law enforcement personnel are scrambling to understand the motives of the Nashville suicide bomber. But a friend says he āloved smoking weed,ā as records do show an arrest for marijuana possession. Other descriptions include hippie and long-haired flower child. This is all we need to know about the bomber, … Continue reading The Death Toll from šDrugsš in America
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Overdoses Kill 621 in San Francisco Thus Far in 2020; Coronavirus Kills 173
Drug overdoses have killed 621 people in San Francisco this year, nearly four times as many as have been killed by COVID-19, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. AĀ reportĀ in theĀ ChronicleĀ noted on Saturday: Fifty-eight more people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco last month [November], bringing the yearly total to at least 621. That compares to … Continue reading Overdoses Kill 621 in San Francisco Thus Far in 2020; Coronavirus Kills 173
Meet the āHillbilly Lawyerā Fighting to Take Down Big Pharma
Inside the massive lawsuit that seeks to assign blameāāāand financial penaltiesāāāfor the opioid epidemic. Paul Farrell paced the courtroom as lawyers filed into place: plaintiffs on the left, defendants to the right, briefcases down, folders out. Outside the chambers, Lake Erie glistened through the floor-to-ceiling windows lining the marble hallway of the Carl B. Stokes … Continue reading Meet the āHillbilly Lawyerā Fighting to Take Down Big Pharma
When heroin kills, the appeal grows ā and policing the drug becomes harder
At the retail end of the global heroin trade, local heroin rings repackage pounds of the drug into single-serve doses and push the product to its final destination: the user. From there, the next stop is often a hospital emergency room or a morgue, as an epidemic of heroin-related overdoses and deaths continues its creep … Continue reading When heroin kills, the appeal grows ā and policing the drug becomes harder
7 Staggering Statistics About America’s Opioid Epidemic
Every year millions of Americans use opioids to manage pain. Doctor-prescribed opioids are appropriate in some cases, but they just mask the paināand reliance on opioids has led to the worst drug crisis in American history. TheĀ Centers for Disease Control and PreventionĀ (CDC), theĀ American College of Physicians, and theĀ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicineĀ have issued … Continue reading 7 Staggering Statistics About America’s Opioid Epidemic
During the Course of CPR, Powerful Opioid Caused Brooklyn Officers’ Overdose at Nightclub
Officials say the substanceĀ that sent six people, including two police officers, to the hospital Friday morning in Brooklyn tested positive as fentanyl. Fifteen people were atĀ Roxyās Exotic ClubĀ on Madison Avenue just before 3 a.m. Friday when the overdoses occurred, according to Illinois State Police Captain Timothy Tyler. Brooklyn Police Lt. Antonio White previously said contact … Continue reading During the Course of CPR, Powerful Opioid Caused Brooklyn Officers’ Overdose at Nightclub