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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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.
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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