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... former President Trump's company is found guilty of tax fraud. Then, Georgia's runoff election for a U.S. Senate seat comes to an end after a contentious campaign. Plus, deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl rise dramatically among young people, prompting schools to stockpile medication to reverse overdose.
... fundamentally, in order to do something as dangerous as shooting up heroin every day, you have to believe that odds don't apply to you, that you're not the person who's going to get arrested, that you're not the person who's going to overdose and die.
In the last five years at Washington State, Cougars quarterback Tyler Hilinski killed himself on Jan. 16, 2018, and a little more than a year later, defensive back Bryce Beekman died of an accidental overdose. Dr. Sunday Henry, head team physician, was part of the response to both tragedies. “Your ...
... kinds have been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades.In the 2000s, most fatal opioid overdoses involved prescription drugs such as OxyContin and generic oxycodone. After governments, doctors and companies took steps to make them harder to obtain, people addicted ...
... actually building cases or stemming a record flow of illegal cocaine and opioids into the United States that has driven more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths a year. “You can’t win an unwinnable war. DEA knows this and the agents know this,” Irizarry said. “There’s so much ...
... border. We saw a record number of drug overdose deaths last year, over 107,000. And that's probably underreported about 15 to 20 percent, because so many families don't want it on the death certificate that their loved one died from a drug overdose. Judy Woodruff: Well, and...
... health challenges for the last few years. We have our plate full, for sure. And we're rightly giving a lot of attention to opioid overdose deaths, which have been climbing. And I have done a lot of reporting on that as well. But those deaths come to around 100 ...
... crisis must commit to changing their businesses practices, and to providing the resources needed for treatment, prevention and recovery." Most of the nation's opioid overdose deaths initially involved prescription drugs. As governments, doctors and companies took steps to make them harder to abuse and obtain, people addicted to them ...
Troy Staton is a Baltimore barber and founder of “More Than a Shop," a network of barbershops and beauty salons that organizes a host of community services from free Wi-Fi to overdose prevention training. A victim of gun violence, he shares his Brief But Spectacular take on how transforming ...
... drowned in a swimming pool in 1982 while suing for divorce. His fifth wife, Shawn Stephens, 23 years his junior, died of an apparent drug overdose in 1983. Within a year, Lewis had married Kerrie McCarver, then 21. She filed for divorce in 1986, accusing him of physical abuse and ...
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