The Sackler family has made billions of dollars from Purdue Pharma, which produces the infamous Oxycontin pain killer. And now, the State of New York is coming after those billions. …
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Huntington, WV public safety resources are so drained from chronic responses to overdose calls requiring Narcan that both chiefs heading the city police and fire departments have stalled responses involving …
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Opioids Found in Shellfish in Puget Sound While Seattle Facilitates Fester
by Steve Pomperby Steve PomperSociety is now learning about Seattle’s drug-encouraging political environment in a different and unexpected way. According to a CBS News report, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) scientists have …
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Nebraska Troopers Save Millions of Lives with One ‘Routine’ Traffic Stop
Indeed, the rhetoric in police work is that there is tons of routine this and routine that. Sometimes, the routine course in being a cop can morph in a millisecond. …
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As the United States faces a crippling opioid crisis, communities across the nation suffer the consequences. Lives and families are torn apart by ever-present and growing drug addiction. Many rural …
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Statistical data indicating a rise in white homicides may not specify the catalyst(s) motivating Caucasian murders but some criminologists theorize the use of opioids may be the influence to explain …