…based on figures released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an average of 195 Americans died every single day in 2021 In Multnomah County, Oregon, fatal opioid-related overdoses saw a fivefold increase between 2018 and 2022, according to public health data. A record-high 209 people in the county died from fentanyl overdoses last year. Andrew Suchocki… medical director……
The Elliptic report notes that the tens of millions of dollars worth of precursor sales it tracked on blockchains would likely be enough to manufacture enough fentanyl to, if distributed efficiently, kill every person on earth… the US government may be increasingly aware of the activity of fentanyl precursor sellers in China and of cryptocurrency’s…
A Vancouver man, Jerry Martin… opened the Drugs Store… the only known brick-and-mortar store in Canada and the U.S. that sells heroin, cocaine, meth, MDMA, and other drugs… he opened the store because he wants to give people drugs that have been tested and are free from adulterants… fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy machine… His hope is…
As a result of state officials’ long-standing failure to respond to… fentanyl – the potent opioid that’s driving the skyrocketing death toll – has dealt Oregon a particularly devastating blow. Among the provisions in the pending bill specifically aimed at young Oregonians are easing restrictions on distribution of naloxone in schools, decriminalization of fentanyl testing…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been accused of bowing to drug industry pressure after releasing new guidelines that doctors say put lives at risk by rowing back on warnings about the dangers of opioid prescribing. “The United States already has the highest per capita opioid prescriptions in the world, and our…
Neither CVS nor Walgreens is admitting wrongdoing… and a lawyer said Walmart is in discussions for a deal. CVS Health and Walgreen Co. announced agreements in principle Wednesday [Nov. 2, 2022] to pay about $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the toll of opioids… the proposed pacts bring a nationwide tally of finalized…
The Eugene Police Department seized an estimated 18 pounds of suspected fentanyl… in what the department says is the largest fentanyl seizure in its history. The pills were a mixture of blue- and rainbow-colored, according to photos of the seized drugs from EPD. The seizure comes five months after EPD reported the department’s previous largest…
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director, Dr. Nora Volkow, and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director and recently named “Science Advisor to the President,” Dr. Francis S. Collins recognized in 2017, America’s gateway drugs are pharmaceutical opiods. With millions of Americans struggling with opioid use disorder and thousands overdosing on fentanyl every year,…
Just a quarter of a milligram – 0.25 milligrams – can kill you. For a sense of just how little that is, a typical baby aspirin tablet is 81 mg. If you cut that tablet into 324 pieces, one of those pieces would be equal to a quarter-milligram. In the year ending in April 2019,…
Governor… announced new efforts state leaders would take… as nearly 1,700 deaths involving fentanyl were reported in the state in 2021. Austin, Texas, also installed its first Narcan vending machine last month, providing 24/7 access… Original Article (KXAN):Gov… issues order designating Mexican cartels as terrorist organizationsArtwork Fair Use: Public Domain
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