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Opioids
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Feds Move to Increase Opiate Deaths & Accidental Child Overdoses
How does one explain the tortured logic of a malevolent Slingblade Hobbit? I’m talking about the Attorney General…
June 13, 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
Prescription Drugs Still Vanishing at VA Hospitals
If you are in need of prescription opiates, make your way to the nearest Veterans Affairs hospital. Not…
May 31, 2017
Trump’s Drug Czar Flip-Flop: Funding for Border Wall Before Opiate Treatment
Proving America’s would-be strongman can be as pliant as a microwaved bagel when subjected to the slightest bit…
May 24, 2017
Feds Admit Marijuana May Treat Opiate Crisis
For now, the United States is still (mostly) a free country, and people are (within limits) allowed to…
May 23, 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
Meet Trump’s ‘Marijuana-Is-A-Gateway-Drug-To’ Opiates Commission
The opiate overdose crisis has reached epic proportions in the United States. In 2015, the CDC reported over 33,000…
May 12, 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
How Donald Trump Will Make the Opiate Crisis Worse
On its face, Donald Trump’s proposal to eviscerate the position of the “national drug czar” is about the…
May 11, 2017
Pot vs. Pills: Will Cannabis Help End the Opioid-Abuse Epidemic?
With the election of Donald Trump and Republican majorities in Congress, the GOP has vowed to move forward…
May 10, 2017