• Effectiveness of safe injection sites to be evaluated in government-backed study

    Effectiveness of safe injection sites to be evaluated in government-backed study

    May 08, 2023 04:07 PM EST

    ... justice systems. The universities announced the grant Monday. The money will not be used to operate the sites, the universities said. With U.S. drug overdose deaths reaching nearly 107,000 in 2021, supporters contend safe injection sites, also called overdose preventions centers, can save lives and connect people with ...

  • Photographer Nan Goldin’s Brief But Spectacular take on survival

    Photographer Nan Goldin’s Brief But Spectacular take on survival

    May 06, 2023 09:30 PM EST

    ... know, I don`t know if I`m healing. What does it mean? I`m a survivor and I have survived the AIDS crisis, the overdose crisis, prejudices and stigmas that have been attached to me in my work.And I`ve survived. I`m Nan Goldin, and this is ...

  • Sons of 'El Chapo' deny U.S. allegations of fentanyl trafficking

    Sons of 'El Chapo' deny U.S. allegations of fentanyl trafficking

    May 04, 2023 09:42 PM EST

    ... court documents last month how the Sinaloa cartel had become the largest exporter of fentanyl to the United States, resulting in tens of thousands of overdose deaths. Guzmán is serving a life sentence in the United States for drug trafficking. Guzmán's sons are known collectively as the “Chapitos”. Iván ...

  • News Wrap: Gunman kills 1, wounds 4 in Atlanta medical building shooting

    News Wrap: Gunman kills 1, wounds 4 in Atlanta medical building shooting

    May 03, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    ... authorities ordered the recent seizure of a ship carrying Iranian oil off Southeast Asia.    Back in this country, the CDC reports the rate of overdose deaths linked to fentanyl more than tripled over five years. New numbers show the rate for every 100,000 people jumped from 5.7 ...

  • WATCH: Garland announces results of operation targeting dark web opioid, fentanyl traffickers

    WATCH: Garland announces results of operation targeting dark web opioid, fentanyl traffickers

    May 02, 2023 02:40 PM EST

    For the first time, FBI agents from all the bureau's field offices also visited buyers to tell them about the overdose danger of pills sold online, which are often disguised to look like prescription drugs. WATCH: Garland announces charges against El Chapo sons and Sinaloa cartel for fentanyl trafficking ...

  • Health care often takes a back seat after incarceration. Here’s how some states are working to change that

    Health care often takes a back seat after incarceration. Here’s how some states are working to change that

    Apr 27, 2023 08:02 PM EST

    ... non-incarcerated people during the first two weeks after release. Some of the most common causes of death for this population group included fatal drug overdoses, cancer, cardiovascular disease, homicide and suicide. “When someone leaves jail or prison, they're on their own pretty much to go and find their ...

  • Why mortality for young Americans is increasing at an alarming rate

    Why mortality for young Americans is increasing at an alarming rate

    Apr 16, 2023 09:40 PM EST

    ... We've also markedly reduced the risk of deaths from car accidents. But this upward trend is the result of four causes, suicides, homicides, drug overdoses and car accidents, mainly in young people 10 to 19 years old. John Yang: These are not organic problems. They seem preventable? Dr. Steven ...

  • News Wrap: 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged in U.S. fentanyl trafficking case

    News Wrap: 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged in U.S. fentanyl trafficking case

    Apr 14, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    ... Justice Department charged 28 members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel in a sweeping investigation of fentanyl trafficking. The drug has fueled a surge of overdose deaths. Today's indictments name several sons of convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the so-called Chapitos known for their brutality. Anne ...

  • Why the U.S. designated the animal tranquilizer xylazine an 'emerging threat'

    Why the U.S. designated the animal tranquilizer xylazine an 'emerging threat'

    Apr 14, 2023 10:40 PM EST

    ... in the hospital. And a lot of my patients coming in for the last year have been exhibiting increasing symptoms of wounds and more complicated overdoses. And they have just been telling me: "You know, Doc, something doesn't feel right. And I'm having new symptoms that I haven ...

  • WATCH: Garland announces charges against El Chapo sons and Sinaloa cartel for fentanyl trafficking

    WATCH: Garland announces charges against El Chapo sons and Sinaloa cartel for fentanyl trafficking

    Apr 14, 2023 04:36 PM EST

    ... those accused of running drug labs and providing security and weapons for the drug trafficking operation, prosecutors said. Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021. The Drug Enforcement Administration says most the fentanyl trafficked in the United States comes from the Sinaloa cartel ...