... the past few years seeking to hold the drug industry responsible for a deadly national opioid crisis. Opioids, including illicit drugs such as heroin and fentanyl, were involved in a record 48,000 deaths in 2017, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's more ...
... 000 people fatally overdosed on drugs between 1999 and 2017, according to federal data. In 2017 alone, more than 70,200 Americans died from drug overdose, and more than two-thirds of those deaths were linked to opioids, with a growing proportion of those deaths tied to heroin and fentanyl.
But the training opportunities are neither actual job openings nor are they being immediately provided. The White House describes the programs as opportunities “over the next five years,” including “apprenticeships and work-based learning, continuing education, on-the-job training, and reskilling.” ___ FENTANYL DANGERS TRUMP, on the dangers of fentanyl ...
... on territory between ports of entry, the agency says, and the same is true of drugs generally. The great majority of heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine and fentanyl is seized at ports of entry. Marijuana is one exception; significant quantities are seized between entry ports. Even if a wall could stop all ...
... by pharmaceutical companies. Some feed the addiction of people who have prescriptions; others are stolen and sold on the black market. Moreover, illicit versions of powerful synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have come to the U.S. from China, not Mexico. Associated Press writer Colleen Long contributed to this report.
... the Sinaloa cartel is relatively intact. There's no stop to the drugs flowing across the border. Recently, federal agents made the largest seizure of fentanyl in history on the Arizona border. You know, there is just -- these individual cartel leaders may be fallible, and they may be vulnerable to ...
... United States for nearly pure profit. According to Ray Donovan, head of the DEA's New York office, Guzman was at the forefront of the fentanyl threat. As far back as the early 2010s, his cartel began spiking Mexican-produced heroin with fentanyl to boost its potency so it could ...
... Republicans. President Donald Trump and governors in neighboring Maine and New Hampshire have called out Lawrence for being a hub for the lethal heroin and fentanyl trade. They've taken aim at the city for its sanctuary city policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agencies. "Ending sanctuary cities is ...
... Tens of thousands of innocent Americans are killed by lethal drugs that cross our border and flood into our cities -- including meth, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl. The savage gang, MS-13, now operates in at least 20 different American states, and they almost all come through our Southern Border. Just ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced its biggest ever bust involving fentanyl. Agents in Nogales, Arizona, today showed off 250 pounds of the deadly drug. They found it Saturday, hidden in a load of Mexican produce entering the U.S. The synthetic opioid has caused a surge in ...
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