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Drug overdose deaths — Reasons to be optimistic and concerned
TRENTON — Eight people die of a drug overdose in New Jersey every single day. For the first time in our state’s history, drug overdose deaths within a calendar year topped 3,000. Figures from the New Jersey Attorney General’s office put the number at 3,163...
08 January, 2019
Death row inmate Scott Dozier wanted Nevada to kill him. He was just found dead of apparent suicide. – VICE News
Scott Dozier spent years trying to convince the state of Nevada to let him die — even if that meant becoming the first death-row inmate in the United States to be executed using the opioid fentanyl. But months after his execution was once again...
08 January, 2019
DC Police Seize $2.5M in Heroin, Maserati in Area’s Largest-Ever Drug Bust
D.C. police and federal officials seized millions of dollars worth of heroin and marijuana from a Northeast D.C. home in what the mayor called the largest-ever seizure of heroin in the region.Authorities seized more than 88 pounds of heroin laced with fentanyl, 40 pounds of...
08 January, 2019
Colby Cosh: A flap in the law — a Vancouver judge tackles the tricky topic of tents
The latest absorbing legal puzzle of our times appears in Monday’s Vancouver Sun, which just caught up with a ruling given a few weeks ago in the local Provincial Court. We open on a typical Downtown Eastside scene: police are keeping a eye on a...
08 January, 2019
Lethbridge cops warn of ‘extremely potent batch’ of drugs after deaths
Kristen Harding, a spokesperson for the Lethbridge Police Service, said two people died in the early morning hours of Sunday and it is believed both people died of an opioid overdose. An injection kit is seen inside the newly opened Fraser Health supervised consumption site...
07 January, 2019
Keyport man sentenced to 10 years for two fentanyl deaths
CLOSE The opioid crisis in the United States continues to take center stage as the National Institute on Drug Abuse says more than 115 people die of an opioid overdose every day. Buzz60Terrill Spann of Keyport is sentenced to...
07 January, 2019