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... it's involved in, it makes sense. The odds an average drinker will die from alcohol are much lower than the odds an average illicit fentanyl user will die from the substance they're using. But so many people drink that it then adds up to this very large toll ...
... later heroin. Over the past decade, the death toll has reached an all-time high, and the biggest killers have been synthetic opioids such as fentanyl that are in the supply of many street drugs. Washington state’s Democratic attorney general sued Johnson & Johnson in 2020, alleging that it ...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis ...
One of the witnesses, Josephine Dunn, testified that her daughter, Ashley, died of a fentanyl overdose and said that she traveled from Arizona to appear at the hearing for the opportunity to question Mayorkas. “Mr. Mayorkas is partly responsible for my daughter's death,” she said, calling fentanyl a "weapon ...
... deporting people that we have ever seen, more fentanyl seizures than we have ever seen. But Republicans brought a series of witnesses today that were emotional, one mother, for example, whose daughter was killed by an undocumented immigrant, MS-13 member, another mother whose daughter died from a fentanyl overdose.
... has said drug smugglers should be shot “stone cold dead," while Haley has proposed cutting off trade with China “until they stop murdering Americans with fentanyl.” China is accused by many experts of allowing the export of precursor chemicals used to make synthetic opioids like fentanyl. But that’s only ...
... them now finding that the migrant surge has affected more communities than it did before, cities dealing with populations of migrants. They are dealing with fentanyl overdoses. I talked to one member of Congress, a senior Republican, who said he's been to five fentanyl funerals blamed on problems at ...
... await proceedings. “We’re going to impeach him,” said Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La. The panel heard testimony from attorneys general about the flow of fentanyl to their states often from drug cartels and from a law professor about the grounds for impeachment. Democrats said the hearing was designed by ...
... 2020 election conspiracy theories, was one of several election offices in November sent envelopes containing a powdery substance that in some cases tested positive for fentanyl.The letters are another reminder of the charged environment surrounding U.S. elections heading into 2024. Despite all the challenges, Henderson said election officials ...
At a congressional hearing July 12, James Mandryck, a Customs and Border Protection deputy assistant commissioner, said 73 percent of fentanyl seizures at the border since the previous October were smuggling attempts carried out by U.S. citizens, with the rest being done by Mexican citizens. Extremism experts say Trump ...
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