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  • After years of pain, opioid crisis victims confront Sackler family in court

    After years of pain, opioid crisis victims confront Sackler family in court

    Mar 10, 2022 05:40 PM EDT

    ... prescription drugs and then, as prescriptions became harder to obtain and some drugs became harder to manipulate for a quick high, from heroin. More recently, fentanyl and similar drugs have become the biggest killer.Purdue has twice pleaded guilty to criminal charges, but no members of the Sackler family have ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court justices seem to favor doctors in case over pain pill prescription convictions

    LISTEN: Supreme Court justices seem to favor doctors in case over pain pill prescription convictions

    Mar 01, 2022 02:57 PM EDT

    ... 2015, prosecutors said. Kahn was convicted of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute and dispense controlled substances resulting in death, including oxycodone, an opioid pain reliever, and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. Jessica Burch, of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, was a patient of Kahn’s who died from an overdose in 2015. He ...

  • Johnson & Johnson, distributors finalize $26B opioid settlement

    Johnson & Johnson, distributors finalize $26B opioid settlement

    Feb 25, 2022 02:27 PM EDT

    Dan Keashen, a spokesman for Camden County government, said officials are thinking about using settlement money for a public education campaign to warn about the dangers of fentanyl. They also want to send more drug counselors into the streets, put additional social workers in municipal courts and pay for anti ...

  • Police officers on trial for violating George Floyd's rights should have intervened, says lieutenant

    Police officers on trial for violating George Floyd's rights should have intervened, says lieutenant

    Feb 10, 2022 09:46 PM EDT

    ... emergency physician and toxicologist and professor at the University of Colorado in suburban Denver, testified that Floyd did not die from the low levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, but from a lack of oxygen to his brain. Kueng, who is Black, Lane, who is white, and Thao ...

  • Toxicologist testifies that drugs and heart disease did not kill George Floyd

    Toxicologist testifies that drugs and heart disease did not kill George Floyd

    Feb 10, 2022 12:30 AM EDT

    ... been saved if officers had moved him into a position to breathe more easily. Bebarta said Floyd did not die from the low levels of fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, nor from his heart disease and high blood pressure. He said that on video from inside a convenience store ...

  • New report details the scale of the U.S. opioid crisis and its link to drug trafficking

    New report details the scale of the U.S. opioid crisis and its link to drug trafficking

    Feb 09, 2022 11:40 PM EDT

    Your report lays out ways to address the supply of these drugs and the demand for these drugs. I want to talk about the supply issue first. As your report points out, Mexican cartels are largely manufacturing this fentanyl and shipping it into the U.S., but they are relying ...

  • Bipartisan congressional commission recommends new approach to combatting overdose epidemic

    Bipartisan congressional commission recommends new approach to combatting overdose epidemic

    Feb 08, 2022 05:16 PM EDT

    The stakes are much higher now with the widespread availability of fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller 80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. It can be baked into illicit pills made to look like prescription painkillers or anti-anxiety medicines. The chemical raw materials are produced mainly in China. Criminal ...

  • Capehart and Abernathy on the GOP censuring its members, Fed nominees, rising crime rates

    Capehart and Abernathy on the GOP censuring its members, Fed nominees, rising crime rates

    Feb 04, 2022 11:30 PM EDT

    So, gun violence, it's the people who would use guns for violence, Judy. And we need to look at the root cause of that. We know we have a drug problem. I was looking at an article just a little while ago about record number of fentanyl coming across ...

  • News Wrap: Biden sends thousands of troops to Europe as Russian forces amass near Ukraine

    News Wrap: Biden sends thousands of troops to Europe as Russian forces amass near Ukraine

    Feb 02, 2022 11:55 PM EDT

    ... death of actor Michael K. Williams. Federal prosecutors in New York said today the men were in a drug crew that sold heroin laced with fentanyl. Williams was found dead in his apartment last September. He was best known for his role in the TV series "The Wire." A leading ...

  • 4 charged in overdose death of 'The Wire' actor Michael K. Williams

    4 charged in overdose death of 'The Wire' actor Michael K. Williams

    Feb 02, 2022 08:34 PM EDT

    ... Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell. Three defendants were scheduled to make initial appearances in Manhattan federal court to face narcotics conspiracy charges alleging the distribution of fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in the death of Williams, who gained fame playing Omar Little on “The Wire.” New York City's medical examiner ...

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