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New Drug Worsening Fentanyl Crisis

NPR AUDIO – THE WAR AT HOME – Nov. 4, 2023 - SIMON: More than 111,000 people died of overdoses in America in the past year. Most involved synthetic opioids, including fentanyl. But complicating both treatment and int... Read More...

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Women in Prisons Flooded Alaska With Fentanyl

LOCK THEM UP – Nov. 8, 2023 - From a prison cell in California, federal prosecutors allege, a 56-year-old inmate directed an Alaska drug trafficking ring that in recent years smuggled huge quantities of fentanyl, her... Read More...

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MacArthur Park Is Melting in the Darkness of Fentanyl

AUDIO – AND I’LL NEVER HAVE THAT RECIPE AGAIN – Sept. 18, 2023 - The Southern California News Group interviewed Elliot, dozens of other people who use fentanyl, business owners, residents, LAPD personnel, homeless ou... Read More...

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NYPD Officer Allegedly Sold Fentanyl and Heroin While On Duty

NEFARIOUS MULTI-TASKING – Oct. 21, 2023 - A female NYPD officer who boasted about how much she loved her job was busted this week for allegedly dealing large quantities of narcotics, including fentanyl and heroin, wh... Read More...

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The True Story and Criminal Case Behind ‘Pain Hustlers’

THAT’S A TRUE STORY – Oct. 27, 2023 - The article detailed the various techniques that the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics used to push its highly addictive fentanyl-based painkiller Subsys into the ... Read More...

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Jeffrey Epstein Survivor Dies in Florida of Overdose

ACCIDENTAL? – Oct. 17, 2023 - Carolyn Andriano, 36, was found dead in a hotel room in West Palm Beach, Florida, on May 23, according to West Palm Beach Police Department spokesperson Mike Jachles. Her death wasn’t ma... Read More...

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Actor Michael K. Williams’ Dealer Gets 5 Years for His Death

VIDEO – F**KING BE CAREFUL – Oct. 11, 2023 - A member of a New York City drug-dealing crew blamed for the fentanyl-laced heroin death of actor Michael K. Williams was sentenced Tuesday to five years in p... Read More...

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Fentanyl, a global danger

DEATH IS INTERNATIONAL – Sept. 28, 2023 - Developed in the field of anesthesiology, it has jumped from operating rooms to the streets and, once distributed in its illegal form, has swelled the so-called opiate epidem... Read More...

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The War on Drugs Didn’t Work. How Do We Address Fentanyl Crisis?

GUESS WORK? – Sept. 28, 2023 - In other words, our colleagues want to fight the opioid crisis by continuing the same war on drugs — a war that for decades has destroyed the very communities it intended to help... Read More...

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Fentanyl Mixed with Cocaine and Meth Creates ‘4th Wave’ of the Overdose Deaths

AUDIO – IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE – Sept. 14, 2023 - Another group of people who are affected are people intending to use stimulants on their own but who don’t realize their supply has been laced with or contaminated wi... Read More...

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Owner Disputes Police Claim Puppy Overdosed on Fentanyl

RUFF FOR EVERYONE – Sept. 14, 2023 - Last week, Gibson and his girlfriend made headlines after police arrested the couple in a Walmart parking lot. Authorities said that the pair had drugs in their car and tha... Read More...

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Overdoses Soared as Prescription Pain Pills Plunged

DEATH DON’T HAVE NO MERCY IN THIS LAND – Sept. 12, 2023 - Counties with the highest average doses of legal pain pills per person from 2006 to 2013 suffered the highest death rates in the nation over the subsequent si... Read More...

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Lawmakers Searching for Answers. Why is Fentanyl Killing Kids?

LOOK WITHIN SOCIETY – Aug. 30, 2023 - Mississippi enacted a bill in March mandating a media campaign aimed at youth. California lawmakers are also considering requiring the state health department to make an o... Read More...

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Naloxone Vending Machine Installed

HAVE A QUARTER? SAVE A LIFE – Sept. 10, 2023 - Approximately 300 naloxone nasal sprays, designed to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose involving substances like fentanyl, heroin and prescription painkil... Read More...

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Painkillers and me: One mother’s story

LITTLE BY LITTLE – Sept. 13, 2023 - “The only thing they think they can do with pain is give you more painkillers,” she tells me. She says the drugs have had a significant impact on her life and how she lives it. ... Read More...

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Puppy Gets Narcan Administered

PUPPY SAVED! – Sept. 10, 2023 - The incident began with a “consensual” encounter between the couple and police on Wednesday outside a Walmart, department spokesman Kyle Oldoerp said. After officers discovered ... Read More...

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Fake Prescription Pills Fuels Drug Overdose Deaths

MADNESS IN AMERICA – Sept. 6, 2023 - More than 90% of the counterfeit drugs contained the extremely powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, which has driven total US overdose deaths to more than 100,000 a year. Ot... Read More...

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First lab in the world to identify new synthetic opioid more potent than fentanyl

SCIENCE GONE MAD – Sept. 6, 2023 - WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (CBS) — The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education in Willow Grove, PA. was the first in the world to identify a new synthetic opioid that researchers ... Read More...

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Fentanyl And Heroin Vaccines Set For Human Trials

LET’S PRAY THEY WORK – Sept. 7, 2023 - “We anticipate testing our vaccines in humans in early 2024,” Dr Jay Evans, study author and director of the University of Montana’s Center for Translational Medicine, sa... Read More...

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Former Star Swimmer Died of Fentanyl Poisoning

THE DAILY MADNESS – Aug. 27, 2023 - The boyfriend and a friend then took Cail to Myrah Keating-Smith Clinic, where doctors attempted to perform CPR before she was pronounced dead. Police previously said the ... Read More...

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Fentanyl Addiction Fuels Underground Shoplifting Economy

EARTH SWALLOWS MAN – Aug. 28, 2023 - For someone with no phone, no home, no job and no more possessions than can fit into a backpack, this is no easy task. So Elliot, like many others battling addiction, makes... Read More...

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Schools Face Fentanyl Fiasco As More Teens Overdose

AUDIO – FLUNKING OUT FOREVER – Aug. 30, 2023 - “Fentanyl’s infiltration into schools is certainly something that cannot be ignored,” says Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School Distric... Read More...

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Synthetic Opioids 10x More Potent Than Fentanyl

HELL GETS HOTTER – Aug. 29, 2023 - Nitazenes are a synthetic opioid, like fentanyl, although the two drugs are not structurally related. In the small study published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open most of... Read More...

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Fentanyl Has New Mexico in Death Grip

VIDEO – SAVE OUR COUNTRY – Aug. 21, 2023 - ALBUQUERQUE, NM— It’s in our communities, it’s found wherever we go, and it’s something Bernalillo County officials say needs to be discussed as often as possible: the dange... Read More...

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What’s Behind Addiction in Minneapolis?

POVERTY? POVERTY OF SPIRIT? – Aug. 11, 2023 - Coco said if there were people around her, people she could spend time with and do activities with, there would be fewer chances for her to continue using. “You... Read More...

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Potent Marijuana Makes Teens Sick

NO LONGER A SACRAMENT – Aug. 14, 2023 - But despite these dangers, the potency of the products currently on the market is largely unregulated. In 1995, the average concentration of THC in cannabis samples seiz... Read More...

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I lived with an Eating Disorder: Netflix nails it with Heartstopper

TV DONE RIGHT – Aug. 17, 2023 - The desire to avoid eating informed almost every decision I made. I came late to dinner plans, parroting that “I wasn’t that hungry” or that “I’d eaten at home”. I’d shamefully tip ful... Read More...

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Former Employee of Addiction Center Arrested in Drug Dealing Fentanyl

VIDEO – DEALING FOR DOLLARS – Aug. 3, 2023 - Now, police say they’ve charged 54-year-old Aubra Ferguson in connection with the case, after beginning their investigation into Ferguson in November 2022. Investigator... Read More...

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Horrifying Amount of Americans Won’t Make it to Old Age

VERY SAD STORY – July 31, 2023 - On a white board at the end of the room, across from the sofas, the names of former clients who have died of overdoses in the past few years are listed. Though the town has a populati... Read More...

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Flesh-Rotting Tranq Infects Cocaine Supply

VIDEO – SCARY TIMES – July 31, 2023 - “We’ve seen an increase in street-level distribution of cocaine-xylazine mixture,” Frank Tarentino, the special agent in charge of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s... Read More...

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