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Why Do Wisconsin Republicans Want You to Overdose on Heroin and Die?
If it weren’t for Obamacare and the ongoing slow-motion disaster movie that is the Republican Party’s attempt to…
August 7, 2017
Putin’s Losing War: Russia’s Massive, Worsening Drug Problem
Even if the president’s son wasn’t taking meetings with Russians offering to“help” with our democratic process, there would…
July 12, 2017
Are Drug Overdoses This Generation’s AIDS Crisis?
A public health researcher recently told a reporter about a 29-year-old man who said that half of his…
July 3, 2017
NYPD: No Arrests If You Call 911 During Drug Overdose
As the country’s opioid epidemic worsens, the New York Police Department is undertaking a campaign to encourage people…
June 22, 2017
Touch Drugs, Go to Prison: Cops Use DNA to Bust Alleged Dealer
Last October, police in Milton Keynes, a district just north of London, were searching in the bushes along…
June 20, 2017
Killer Opiate Fentanyl Is Everywhere—And It’s Making Police Overdose
The police officer responding to a drug bust in East Liverpool, Ohio—a small city 85 miles southeast of Cleveland…
June 12, 2017
Turkey Seizes More Than a Ton of Heroin on Board Ship
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkish police and coast guards have seized more than…
June 7, 2017
Report: Most Heroin Is Tainted by Fentanyl
North America’s opiate crisis has followed a linear, almost predictable script, like a tragedy in five acts piling…
May 19, 2017
Heroin Epidemic Pushing Up Hepatitis C Infections in U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) — The heroin epidemic is driving up hepatitis C infections, with the biggest increase in…
May 11, 2017
When Heroin Is Safer…
Until 2007, the most common way to die accidentally in Ohio was in a car crash. That was…
April 19, 2017