• How the opioid crisis is driving deaths and abuse in prisons

    How the opioid crisis is driving deaths and abuse in prisons

    Jun 29, 2022 09:00 AM EST

    ... to time in these ‘correctional facilities,’ when we're really just throwing them into drug dens.” The corrections department’s reports reveal at least seven overdose deaths in 2021, three of which officials classified as natural deaths. It reported 97 deaths in the first three months of this year that ...

  • Singer Bonnie Raitt discusses her new album and enduring career

    Singer Bonnie Raitt discusses her new album and enduring career

    Jun 18, 2022 09:30 PM EST

    ... lost. On the record in the liner notes, I started listing people that had just been passed since from the pandemic, and then some drug overdoses and cancer and accidents and suicides. And it was 14 people and I had to stop just because we were going to run out ...

  • WATCH: House Homeland Security committee hearing on DHS efforts against opioid epidemic

    WATCH: House Homeland Security committee hearing on DHS efforts against opioid epidemic

    May 18, 2022 06:11 PM EST

    ... said. More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. overdose deaths have risen most years for more than two decades. The increase began in the 1990s with overdoses involving opioid painkillers, followed by waves ...

  • News Wrap: Sharp rise in inflation may have hit a peak, but remains near 40-year highs

    News Wrap: Sharp rise in inflation may have hit a peak, but remains near 40-year highs

    May 11, 2022 10:55 PM EST

    ... come on the "NewsHour": tensions rise as a journalist is killed during an Israeli raid of a town in the occupied West Bank; a new report details a troubling history of forcing indigenous children to attend boarding school; overdose deaths in the U.S. hit record levels; plus much more.

  • FDA meeting in June to consider COVID vaccines for youngest American children

    FDA meeting in June to consider COVID vaccines for youngest American children

    Apr 29, 2022 03:27 PM EST

    ... Besides the bankruptcy trustee, the only official objectors left are Canadian local governments and First Nations, and two mothers of sons who died of opioid overdoses. This week, more than 1,000 families who have lost loved ones to overdoses sent a letter asking the U.S. Justice Department to ...

  • Appeals court to consider paving way for Purdue Pharma deal out of bankruptcy

    Appeals court to consider paving way for Purdue Pharma deal out of bankruptcy

    Apr 29, 2022 02:43 PM EST

    ... the settlement. That has left only a small group of objectors: Canadian local governments and First Nations; two mothers of sons who died of opioid overdoses; and the Office of the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee, an arm of the federal Department of Justice. A judge called for mediation between Purdue ...

  • News Wrap: Dow tumbles marking worst day since 2020

    News Wrap: Dow tumbles marking worst day since 2020

    Apr 22, 2022 10:50 PM EST

    ... England Journal of Medicine." They analyzed mortality data from the CDC and found there were 4,300 deaths from firearm-related injuries in 2020. That's a 29 percent increase from 2019. Guns killed more people between the ages of 1 and 19 than car accidents, drug overdoses, or cancer.

  • April 21, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    April 21, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    Apr 22, 2022 01:01 AM EST

    Thursday on the NewsHour, the U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine and welcome refugees, as world leaders consider war crimes against Russia as the fight between the two countries wages on. The White House announces a new strategy to combat rising fatalities from drug overdoses. Strategists from both ...

  • Johnson & Johnson subsidiary settles West Virginia opioid lawsuit for $99 million

    Johnson & Johnson subsidiary settles West Virginia opioid lawsuit for $99 million

    Apr 18, 2022 07:58 PM EST

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will receive $99 million in a settlement finalized Monday with Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. over the drugmaker's role in perpetuating the opioid crisis in the state that has long led the nation in drug overdose deaths. State Attorney General ...

  • Los Angeles political donor gets 30 years in prison for fetish deaths

    Los Angeles political donor gets 30 years in prison for fetish deaths

    Apr 15, 2022 04:01 PM EST

    ... deaths in his apartment, he did not stop paying men to come to his home and injecting them with walloping doses of methamphetamine. One man overdosed twice in the course of a week. "This defendant preyed upon vulnerable victims — men who were drug-dependent and often without homes — to feed ...