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... 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 ...
... could be put to death for selling drugs in Singapore. But the other side of that equation, only 15 people died last year and drug overdoses, whereas we lost almost 110,000 Americans and drug overdoses last year of drug related deaths. So yes, there are lots of things on ...
... paramedics were convicted of criminally negligent homicide for the 2019 death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain. McClain died after the EMTs administered a fatal overdose with a powerful sedative ketamine. Police forcibly arrested McClain following a suspicious person complaint. After officers pinned him down the paramedics gave him the ...
... delegation, have pointed to research showing solitary confinement, even only for a few days, increases the likelihood an inmate will die by suicide, violence or overdose. It also leads to acute anxiety, depression, psychosis and other impairments that may reduce an inmate’s ability to reintegrate into society when they ...
... JD Vance, a Republican from Ohio, lashed out at a reporter asking about Trump's "poisoning the blood" comments, defending them as a reference to overdoses from fentanyl smuggled over the border. "You just framed your question implicitly assuming that Donald Trump is talking about Adolf Hitler. It's absurd ...
... Brangham: Dr. Chapman says this is all particularly important in Washington, D.C., where Black people account for more than 80 percent of all opioid overdose deaths since 2017. Dr. Edwin Chapman: When we look at overdose death statistics, we see that, generally, only one out of 10 has actually ...
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