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Mar 14, 20221 min
Black OD Rate Higher Than Whites For First Time Since 1999
The fatal overdose rate among Blacks exceeded that for whites in the first year of the pandemic, as an increasingly lethal drug supply...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 13, 20222 min
Will Fentanyl Copycat Law Erode Criminal Justice Reform?
In 2018, the Trump administration issued an emergency order making it easier to prosecute people for selling fentanyl analogues, drugs...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 11, 20221 min
In Opioid Hearing, Drug Victim Calls Purdue Owners 'Scum Of The Earth'
In an online hearing, members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma heard from over two dozen people whose lives were disrupted by...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 10, 20222 min
First Official 'Safe Injection' Sites Have Halted 150 Overdoses
Equipped to reverse overdoses, New York City’s new, privately run “overdose prevention centers” are a bold response to a tide of opioid...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 10, 20222 min
Some Opioid Victims Getting Chance to Confront Sackler Family
On Thursday, around 20 people whose lives have been affected by the opioid crisis will have an opportunity to make statements to members...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 4, 20221 min
All States Sign On to Richer Purdue Deal
With up to $1.5 billion more thrown in to sweeten the deal, attorneys general unanimously supported a new settlement with Purdue Pharma...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 2, 20221 min
Justices Turn to Grammar To Debate Drug-Prosecution Convictions
Medical doctors sentenced to decades in prison for writing hundreds of thousands of scripts for painkillers asked the Supreme Court to...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 1, 20221 min
States May Resist CDC Plan to Ease Curbs on Prescription Opioids
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proposed to ease restrictions on prescription opioids, but states might balk at...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 28, 20222 min
Mexico Makes Little Headway in Probing Disappearances
Largely understaffed, Mexico's investigators struggle to identify the nation's nearly 100,000 missing people, whose cases the government...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 25, 20221 min
Governments Agree to $19 Billion Settlement with Opioid Distributors
AmerisourceBergen Corp., Cardinal Health and McKesson Corp. have agreed to settle a majority of the opioid lawsuits filed by state and...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 23, 20221 min
Corporate Opioid Payouts Of $32 Billion Being Finalized
Over the next two weeks, large corporations accused of "turbocharging" the opioid epidemic could finalize payouts to victims and...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 22, 20222 min
Biden Hasn't Acted on Marijuana Decriminalization Amid Crime Rise
Facing a tough midterm election and divisions in Congress, the Biden administration is sidestepping the sensitive issue of loosening...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 18, 20221 min
U.S. Seizes $1 Billion in Cocaine, Pot Off South American Coast
A Coast Guard vessel offloaded more than 30 metric tons of cocaine and marijuana worth over $1 billion that was seized at sea during a...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 16, 20222 min
Drug Arrests, Imprisonment Continue At High Rate
Fifty years ago, President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy No. 1,” and Congress sought to expand treatment and research....
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 16, 20221 min
Ex-Honduran President Hernandez Arrested, U.S. Seeks Extradition
The arrest of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and the images that followed, a leader shackled and paraded before the...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 15, 20221 min
Senator's Drug-Pipe Questions Are Delaying Federal Spending Bill
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) plans to hold up a bill to keep the government funded until the Biden administration responds to her...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 14, 20222 min
Better Scanning Should Detect More Fentanyl Shipments Across Border
At the busiest commercial border crossing in North America, trucks stream into the U.S. at 500 per hour during peak times. Drug...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 10, 20222 min
New Harm Reduction Aid Prompts False Fixation On Crack Pipes
Conservatives launched an online frenzy this week, claiming that the federal government plans to spend $30 million on pipes for smoking...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 8, 20222 min
Federal Panel Calls Opioid Epidemic National Security Issue
The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter the overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional...
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