More than 100,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending in April, marking the highest number ever, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Thursday. The new record number marked a 28.5 percent … Continue reading More Than 100,000 Americans Died Due to a Drug Overdose in a One-Year Period for the First Time, CDC Reports
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 âloved smoking weed,â as records do show an arrest for marijuana possession. Other descriptions include … Continue reading The Death Toll from đDrugsđ in America
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. A report in the Chronicle noted on Saturday: Fifty-eight more people died of drug overdoses in San … Continue reading Overdoses Kill 621 in San Francisco Thus Far in 2020; Coronavirus Kills 173
Inside the massive lawsuit that seeks to assign blameâââand financial penaltiesâââfor 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 … Continue reading Meet the âHillbilly Lawyerâ Fighting to Take Down Big Pharma
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 … Continue reading When heroin kills, the appeal grows â and policing the drug becomes harder
Every year millions of Americans use opioids to manage pain. Doctor-prescribed opioids are appropriate in some cases, but they just mask the painâand reliance on opioids has led to the worst drug crisis in American history. The Centers for Disease Control … Continue reading 7 Staggering Statistics About America’s Opioid Epidemic
Officials say the substance that sent six people, including two police officers, to the hospital Friday morning in Brooklyn tested positive as fentanyl. Fifteen people were at Roxyâs Exotic Club on Madison Avenue just before 3 a.m. Friday when the overdoses occurred, according … Continue reading During the Course of CPR, Powerful Opioid Caused Brooklyn Officers’ Overdose at Nightclub
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