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... a part in creating the opioid crisis. Under the agreements, most of the money is to be used to combat the nation’s addiction and overdose crisis. Drug overdoses caused more than 1 million deaths in the U.S. from 1999 through 2021, and the majority of those involved opioids ...
... a way to treat addiction as a public health matter, not a crime, are now contending with one of the nation's largest spikes in overdose deaths, along with intensifying pressure from Republicans and growing calls from a well-funded campaign group to overhaul it. WATCH: Oregon decriminalization reveals possible ...
One of the witnesses, Josephine Dunn, testified that her daughter, Ashley, died of a fentanyl overdose and said that she traveled from Arizona to appear at the hearing for the opportunity to question Mayorkas. “Mr. Mayorkas is partly responsible for my daughter's death,” she said, calling fentanyl a "weapon ...
... deporting people that we have ever seen, more fentanyl seizures than we have ever seen. But Republicans brought a series of witnesses today that were emotional, one mother, for example, whose daughter was killed by an undocumented immigrant, MS-13 member, another mother whose daughter died from a fentanyl overdose.
... coming to speak in New Hampshire should be talking about this issue.” After two big leaps at the beginning of the COVD-19 pandemic, drug overdose deaths nationally rose 2 percent in 2022 to nearly 110,000. In New Hampshire, overdose deaths declined significantly before the pandemic and held steady ...
... now finding that the migrant surge has affected more communities than it did before, cities dealing with populations of migrants. They are dealing with fentanyl overdoses. I talked to one member of Congress, a senior Republican, who said he's been to five fentanyl funerals blamed on problems at the ...
... of criminally negligent homicide and assault. McClain died in 2019 after a struggle with Roedema and two other officers, and after being injected with an overdose of the sedative ketamine. The number two Republican in the House, Steve Scalise, will have a stem cell transplant as he battles blood cancer ...
“I want the McClain family to know the sadness I feel about Elijah being gone. He was young,” Roedema said. Roedema suggested Friday that first responders get more training in how to deal with such situations that led to McClain being given an overdose. “Ultimately the situation has caused ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the Proud Boys extremist group who went on the run after he was convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol and then allegedly faked a drug overdose after he was caught was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison. Christopher ...
... also had to pay for the opioid addiction treatment that followed. From 1999 to 2021, nearly 280,000 people in the U.S. died from overdoses of prescription opioids, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Insurers argued that McKinsey worked with Purdue Pharma even after the extent ...
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