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Opioids
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Massive Drug Bust: Agents Find Enough Fentanyl to Kill Half the Population of NYC
“Call an Uber” took on a new meaning recently when the feds busted a drug mill in a…
August 11, 2017
Jeff Sessions and the Great Cannabis Shakedown
The good folks of Alabama have a problem… The Yellowhammer State has the highest level of prescription opioid…
August 11, 2017
Trump to Declare Opioid Crisis a ‘National Emergency’
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a…
August 11, 2017
New Hampshire is Latest State to Sue OxyContin Manufacturer
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The attorney general’s office sued Purdue Pharma on Tuesday, alleging that the drug manufacturer…
August 10, 2017
Opioid Deaths Continue to Increase
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports that deaths from drug overdoses continue to increase, from 16.7…
August 10, 2017
Underground Safe Haven for Heroin Injection Has Been Operating in the U.S. for Years
None were known to exist in the United States until a recent report in the American Journal of…
August 9, 2017
Report: Doctors Who Graduated from Harvard Prescribe Fewer Opioids
Physicians who studied medicine at Ivy League schools are less likely to prescribe opioid medications, according to a…
August 9, 2017
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
Justice Department to Dispatch Opioid Fraud and Abuse Units to 12 States
Only days after the president’s opioid commission issued its preliminary report, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that a…
August 3, 2017
Opioid Commission Ignores Nearly 8,000 Comments about Pot
The president’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, led by Chris Christie, issued a preliminary report,…
August 2, 2017