Teva Pharmaceuticals Will Pay $4.2B To Settle Opioid Claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals will pay up to $4.2 billion to settle claims related to its role in fueling the opioid crisis, New York Attorney...
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Nov 2, 20221 min read
Localities Join States In Voting On Legalizing Recreational Marijuana
As he plied the streets of Killeen, Tx., in his Volvo SUV, Louie Minor recalled his time as a deputy constable whose duties included...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 2, 20222 min read
CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Paying $13.8B To Settle Opioid Lawsuits
CVS Health Corp., Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walmart Inc have tentatively agreed to pay about $13.8 billion to resolve thousands...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 1, 20222 min read
Safer Drug-Use Machine in Cincinnati Second of Its Kind
Punch a code into the safer drug-use vending machine, and get free Narcan. Or get safer smoking products, fentanyl test strips, or other...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 28, 20221 min read
S.F. Says Walgreens Must Contribute To $8.1 Billion Fund For Opioid Crisis
San Francisco says its plan to attack the opioid crisis will cost $8.1 billion over 15 years. The city asked a federal judge to order...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 27, 20222 min read
School Districts Stockpile Narcan In Response to Student Fentanyl Deaths
After recent episodes of students overdosing on fentanyl, school districts are trying to respond to the growing toll from fentanyl, a...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 27, 20222 min read
Media, Public Officials Exaggerate Rainbow Fentanyl Halloween Threat
As Halloween approaches, a scary new threat seems to be looming: "rainbow fentanyl," a multicolored, candy-size version of the addictive...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 25, 20221 min read
Brittney Griner's Nine-Year Drug Term Upheld by Russian Court
A Russian court upheld the nine-year prison sentence handed to U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for drug possession, rejecting her...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 20, 20221 min read
12,000 Apparent Fentanyl Pills Seized In Candy Boxes At LAX
Authorities seized 12,000 pills believed to contain fentanyl that someone tried to bring in candy boxes through a security checkpoint at...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 18, 20221 min read
Voters In 5 States To Decide On Legalizing Recreational Marijuana
Voters will decide next month whether recreational marijuana can be used legally in five states: Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 12, 20221 min read
California Making Seasonal Illegal Pot Eradication A Year-Round Effort
With California’s four-year-old legal marijuana market in disarray, Attorney General Rob Bonta will try a new broader approach to...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 12, 20221 min read
RI Group To Open First Drug Consumption Site OKd By State
The Project Weber/Renew group, which helps drug users in one of Rhode Island's poorest neighborhoods, is preparing to open the first...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 12, 20222 min read
Ex-L.A. Angels Exec Gets 22-Year Term For Giving Player Fatal Drugs
Eric Kay, a former Los Angeles Angels communications executive, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for supplying opioid drugs that...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 7, 20222 min read
Biden's Weed Waiver: More Symbolism Than Substance?
Although hailed as both a practical and symbolic advance of great significance for the marijuana-legalization cause, President Biden's...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 6, 20222 min read
Pot Legalization Means Fewer Firms Reject People Who Fail Drug Tests
Workers at Wyatt Bassett's furniture factory in Virginia use powerful tools to churn out dressers and headboards, so screening new...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 6, 20221 min read
Experts Want To Reclassify Fentanyl Substances To Promote Research
More than 100 researchers, scientists and public health professionals want fentanyl-related substances no longer to be Schedule I drugs ,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 3, 20222 min read
Fentanyl Test Strips Catch On, But 20 States Declare Them Illegal
“You smoke weed?” Eufamia Lopez asked young men lounging on benches in a public housing courtyard in the South Bronx. Lopez, who works...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 3, 20222 min read
An Emerging Role For Courts In State Marijuana Markets
Tight federal restrictions on how states decide to rule the multibillion-dollar U.S. cannabis industry show no signs of loosening. Courts...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 28, 20221 min read
Colombia Leader's Drug Plan Tests Longstanding U.S. Relationship
Colombia’s new leftist leader is proposing steps to decriminalize elements of his country’s flourishing narcotics industry, signaling a...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 28, 20221 min read
Federal Agents Have Seized 10M Fentanyl-Laced Pills This Year
An estimated 10 million fentanyl-laced pills were seized by the U.S. Department of Justice, which blamed Mexican drug cartels for their...
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