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... combat fentanyl trafficking. The powerful opioid is the deadliest drug in the U.S. today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that drug overdose deaths have increased more than sevenfold from 2015 to 2021. Mexico and China are the primary sources for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked ...
... false claims that it was rigged. Fentanyl, an opioid that can be 50 times as powerful as the same amount of heroin, is driving an overdose crisis deadlier than any the U.S. has ever seen as it is pressed into pills or mixed into other drugs. Researchers have found ...
... attorney Andrew Ho said during closing arguments in Woodyard’s case. He added, referring to the paramedics, that it was "decided to give him an overdose of 500 milligrams of ketamine despite being explicitly trained not to do so.” Prosecution experts also said the ketamine was the ultimate cause of ...
McClain died after being put in the neck hold, then pinned to the ground by Woodyard and several other officers before he was injected by paramedics with an overdose of ketamine. Defense attorneys stressed Woodyard was not there during crucial minutes when McClain’s condition was deteriorating. Body camera footage ...
... ambulance crews Ground ambulance services are not always compensated. An ambulance crew may administer medical care on the scene, such as Narcan for an opioid overdose or insulin for a diabetic patient. If the patient then no longer needs to go to a hospital, crews are not reimbursed for the ...
... courtroom. McClain died after being put in a neck hold by a third officer and pinned to the ground, then injected by paramedics with an overdose of ketamine. The third officer and two paramedics are awaiting trial. The case initially did not receive widespread attention, but protests over the killing ...
Stephanie Sy: The services include distributing safer injection supplies like clean needles, but also glass pipes and tests that detect fentanyl in other drugs. Narcan, the opioid overdose reversal drug, is also available. Haven Wheelock: Smoking supplies are definitely our biggest draw currently. Stephanie Sy: Harm reduction services like these ...
... the Chinese officials know how this epidemic has affected my small state,” she said, saying it affects 1.4 million people and causes about 500 overdose deaths every year. The U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, said the senators made more progress on the issue than he expected. Burns ...
... and Trump, saying the president wasn’t up to securing the U.S.-Mexico border, combating fentanyl smuggling that has led to epidemic of American overdoses and violent crime and homelessness in the country’s cities. “President Biden can’t solve these problems — or won’t,” Hurd said in his ...
... been taken. Fentanyl, a powerful opioid, is the deadliest drug in the U.S. today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that drug overdose deaths have increased more than sevenfold from 2015 to 2021. More than 100,000 deaths a year have been linked to drug overdoses since ...
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