... had family or friends who had struggled with addiction. There was one potential juror who said they had a friend who died of a heroin overdose. So this is -- some of the issues that are very much central to this case are things that people in the community know and ...
... to the U.S. WATCH: Garland announces charges against El Chapo sons and Sinaloa cartel for fentanyl trafficking Fentanyl is blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per year in the United States. “We allege El Nini was one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s lead sicarios, or assassins, and was ...
... Act restricts the use and distribution of prescription medications such as opioids, amphetamines, sleeping aids and other drugs that carry the risk of addiction and overdose. Abortion opponents and conservative Republicans both inside and outside the state have applauded the Louisiana bill. Conversely, the move has been strongly criticized by ...
In our news wrap Wednesday, Slovakia's prime minister was shot multiple times today in an assassination attempt, the Supreme Court ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections this year using a House map with a second mostly-Black district, the number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. fell ...
And we like finite, very linear descriptions. And for us as a nation, we know all the statistics are horrendous suicide going up, overdose going up. But what we don't have is a sense of what does this really mean like in real people's lives? How do they ...
... had a son, Daniel, from an earlier marriage to the author-translator Lydia Davis. Daniel Auster would struggle with drug addiction and die of an overdose in 2022, shortly after being charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of his infant daughter, Ruby. Paul Auster never commented publicly on ...
... City of Grants Pass, Oregon: In Grants Pass, in a tent on the little league field, a dead body was found, believed to be an overdose. This is a very real crisis. And people are dying on our streets. We think it's safer and better for people to avoid ...
Sam Quinones: I knew of Hazard, Kentucky only, as a place of terrible devastation due to the opioid epidemic. Jeffrey Brown : More than 100,000 Americans are still dying every year from drug overdose, fueled largely by the synthetic opioid fentanyl. It's a problem that continues to plague towns ...
... chaos and devastation that has resulted from this epidemic. And, yes, that means more dead Americans. Geoff Bennett: Fentanyl is a leading cause of drug overdoses in the U.S., killing an average of 200 Americans each day. Federal regulators issued new protections today for coal miners against so-called ...
... The report’s findings were released Tuesday as part of a hearing examining China’s role in the fentanyl epidemic in the U.S. Most overdose deaths in the U.S. continue to be linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Inexpensive fentanyl is increasingly cut into other drugs, often ...
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