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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Feb 14, 20222 min read
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 read
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 read
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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Crime and Justice News
Feb 8, 20221 min read
Justice Department To Consider Allowing Safe Injection Sites
A year after winning a court battle against the opening of safe injection sites, havens for people to use heroin and other narcotics with...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 7, 20221 min read
S.F. Mayor Breed Suggests Ways To Cut Overdoses In Tenderloin Area
San Francisco Mayor London Breed unveiled a plan to turn the tide against drug-related fatalities in the Tenderloin neighborhood, where...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 4, 20221 min read
1.25M Years Of Life Lost To Youth Drug Overdoses In Four Years
Researchers have turned to counting years of life lost instead of a sheer number of deaths when measuring the impact of drug overdoses...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 3, 20221 min read
Opioid Overdose Deaths Could Rise Dramatically Through 2029
More than 1.2 million more people across North America are expected to die of opioid overdoses by 2029 if dramatic interventions are not...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 3, 20221 min read
First Criminal Trial of Drug Distributor Ends In Guilty Verdict
A jury returned a guilty verdict in the first criminal trial of a drug distributor on federal charges of drug trafficking and fraud....
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 3, 20221 min read
Four Arrested for Providing Drugs That Killed Michael K. Williams
Four men were arrested this week in connection with actor Michael K. Williams’s fatal drug overdose. Williams, best known for his...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20222 min read
Native American Tribes Reach $590M Settlement With Drug Firms
Johnson & Johnson and three major U.S. drug distributors agreed to pay nearly $590 million to Native American tribes affected by the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 27, 20221 min read
Police Find 100 Bags of Fentanyl in Connecticut Teen Overdose
After a 13-year-old boy died from a fentanyl overdose at a Connecticut middle school, Hartford police found an extra 100 bags of fentanyl...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 26, 20221 min read
El Chapo Conviction Upheld By Appeals Court
A federal appeals court upheld the conviction of Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, rejecting claims of juror misconduct...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 23, 20222 min read
CT Teen's Overdose Death Prompts Calls For More Antidotes in Schools
The death of a 13-year-old Hartford, Ct., student who apparently overdosed on fentanyl at his school has drawn renewed pleas for schools...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 19, 20221 min read
Opioid Distributor Drug Trafficking Trial Begins in New York
A trial started Tuesday in the case against a former drug company executive, Laurence Doud of the distribution company Rochester Drug...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 17, 20222 min read
Will Safe-Injection Sites Prevent Many Overdose Deaths?
More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in a recent 12-month period, an all-time high in a crisis exacerbated by the...
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