Can $18B In Opioid Settlement Funds Shift The Overdose Tide?
The opioid crisis has been ravaging the U.S. for decades, costing states millions of dollars in resources and claiming tens of thousands...
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Aug 142 min
Drug Overdose Patients’ Kids Need Help, Advocates Say
Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 22 min
Could Mexican Cartel Leader's Ambush Lead To Bloody Drug War?
Ismael Zambada GarcÃa, a founder of the Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, appeared in court in Texas on Thursday, one week after he was...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 231 min
Feds Break Up One Of Largest Drug Operations In U.S. History
Federal agents took down the man leading one of the largest drug operations in the history of the U.S., hailing it as a big step forward...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 112 min
Can Oregon Pilot Program Succeed In Reducing Drug Abuse?
Tera Hurst runs the Health Justice Recovery Alliance, which represents over 100 addiction recovery groups. Her organization opposes...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 82 min
Fentanyl Seizures Rise 1700% Over Six Years, Concentrated in West
A new study by NYU Langone, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, shows how fentanyl has...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 12 min
Fentanyl Crisis Claims 2,100 Lives in 10 Years Among L.A.'s Homeless
Fentanyl claimed the lives of more than 2,100 people living on the streets of Los Angeles County and in homeless shelters between 2014 to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 272 min
High Court Blocks Purdue Deal To Pay $6B In Opioid Settlements
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement that would have shielded its wealthy Sackler...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 262 min
Could Toledo Be A Model For Reducing Opioid Overdoses?
A multiyear experiment in Toledo, a working-class city on Lake Erie’s banks, holds clues to how the U.S. could get a handle on its...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 192 min
Two Dozen Arrested In Sinaloa Cartel Money Scheme With Chinese
A five-year U.S. investigation has uncovered a complex partnership between one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels and Chinese...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 192 min
Maryland Marijuana Pardons Add To National Total of 2.5 Million
This week, Maryland became the latest state to announce mass pardons for people convicted of marijuana-related crimes, The Associated...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 132 min
'Super Mario' Street Drug 100 Times Stronger Than Fentanyl
A new street drug named "Super Mario," which includes a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl, has surfaced in New York,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 132 min
FL Doctors Warn Of Chaos From Vote On Legalizing Recreational Pot
Florida’s ballot initiative to legalize recreational pot has divided the state’s medical marijuana industry. The state’s largest medical...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 112 min
Three More States May Have Pot Legalization On November Ballots
Nebraskan Crista Eggers is facing a July 3 deadline. If she can get at least 87,000 names onto each of two petitions before then, she can...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 112 min
Colorado's Declining Weed Market Causes Concern in Other States
On Jan. 1, 2014, Iraq War veteran Sean Azzariti made headlines worldwide as the first person in the U.S. to buy legal weed. More than 10...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 102 min
'Tranq' Addiction Creating Generation Of Amputees
As a boy, Nathan Clark of Philadelphia feared that he would lose his limbs and be unable to fish and crab with his grandfather. Today, he...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 52 min
Federal Advisers Warn Against Use Of MDMA As Treatment For PTSD
Advisers to the federal agency regulating drugs stated Tuesday that the combination of psychedelic ecstasy and therapy is not an...
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Crime and Justice News
May 281 min
Sinaloa Cartel Assassin 'El Nini' Extradited To U.S.
An assassin for the Sinaloa drug cartel who was arrested by Mexican authorities last fall has been extradited to the U.S. to face drug,...
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Crime and Justice News
May 242 min
Biden Weed Change Moves California Toward Cannabis Cafes
California lawmakers are pressing forward with plans to authorize Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes, allowing patrons to enjoy a meal,...
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Crime and Justice News
May 232 min
6,000 Baltimore Overdose Deaths In Six Years, Highest Ever In Major City
People in Baltimore have been dying of overdoses at a rate never before seen in a major U.S. city -- nearly 6,000 in six years. The death...
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