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  • WATCH: RFK Jr. and health officials announced crackdown on kratom-related products

    WATCH: RFK Jr. and health officials announced crackdown on kratom-related products

    Jul 29, 2025 06:35 PM EST

    Federal regulators have been scrutinizing kratom for about a decade after reports of addiction, injury and overdose. But users and distributors have long opposed efforts to regulate it, saying kratom could be a safer alternative to opioid painkillers that sparked the ongoing drug addiction epidemic. Last month, the FDA issued ...

  • Doctor pleads guilty to selling Matthew Perry ketamine weeks before actor's death

    Doctor pleads guilty to selling Matthew Perry ketamine weeks before actor's death

    Jul 23, 2025 06:45 PM EST

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A doctor who was a primary target in the sweeping investigation of actor Matthew Perry's overdose death pleaded guilty Wednesday to supplying the “Friends” star with ketamine despite knowing he was a struggling addict. Dr. Salvador Plasencia became the fourth of the five people charged in ...

  • News Wrap: State Department lays off more than 1,300 in latest cuts to federal workforce

    News Wrap: State Department lays off more than 1,300 in latest cuts to federal workforce

    Jul 11, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    Officials in Baltimore are investigating a suspected mass overdose event that saw more than two dozen people sent to the hospital. The city's fire department first responded to an overdose incident yesterday morning in West Baltimore. Community members then directed emergency crews to more unconscious people in the area ...

  • California's homeless encampment crackdown draws criticism from health experts

    California's homeless encampment crackdown draws criticism from health experts

    Jul 08, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    Stephanie Sy: Dr. Absalon Galat says overdose is the leading cause of death among the city's homeless population, and that programs like L.A. County's Pathway Home support recovery. Dr. Absalon Galat: Before, our focus was, how can I keep you alive on the street as long as ...

  • Operation Not Forgotten dedicates FBI agents to cold cases as Native families seek answers

    Operation Not Forgotten dedicates FBI agents to cold cases as Native families seek answers

    Jun 30, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... on Shawna, but she was beyond help. In the postmortem examination, tests showed she had methamphetamines, fentanyl and alcohol in her system, indicating an accidental overdose. Geraldine Toya: They told me that they found out that they didn't see that there was any foul play. And they immediately kind ...

  • A judge's ruling will decide whether Purdue Pharma's $7 billion opioid settlement plan could be put to votes

    A judge's ruling will decide whether Purdue Pharma's $7 billion opioid settlement plan could be put to votes

    Jun 20, 2025 03:35 PM EST

    ... would be dedicated to battling the epidemic. Most of the money would go to state and local governments to address the nation's addiction and overdose crisis, but potentially more than $850 million would go directly to individual victims. That makes it different from the other major settlements. The payments ...

  • U.S. states agree to multi-billion dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma over opioid crisis

    U.S. states agree to multi-billion dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma over opioid crisis

    Jun 18, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    ... of work. But that means only about $850 million will go to people who were devastated by OxyContin, people who lost family members to fatal overdoses, people who lost years of their own lives to this. Some of them say they will only get a few thousand dollars in compensation ...

  • OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma asks court to clear way for $7 billion settlement if states back it

    OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma asks court to clear way for $7 billion settlement if states back it

    Jun 18, 2025 06:30 PM EST

    ... would be dedicated to battling the epidemic. Most of the money would go to state and local governments to address the nation's addiction and overdose crisis, but potentially more than $850 million would go directly to individual victims. That makes it different from the other major settlements. The payouts ...

  • Doctor who supplied ketamine to Matthew Perry will plead guilty

    Doctor who supplied ketamine to Matthew Perry will plead guilty

    Jun 16, 2025 11:37 PM EST

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A doctor charged with giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the “Friends” star's overdose death has agreed to plead guilty, authorities said Monday. Dr. Salvador Plasencia has agreed to plead guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine, federal prosecutors said in ...

  • Global celebration of LGBTQ+ community draws thousands to nation's capital

    Global celebration of LGBTQ+ community draws thousands to nation's capital

    Jun 07, 2025 09:50 PM EST

    ... of them for over 20 years to look at how early life experiences predict a variety of different health outcomes, most specifically HIV, substance use, overdose, suicide, mental health, a variety of health issues that we know disproportionately impact that group of young men. And the goal of that study ...

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