In Sierra Leone, a cheap, synthetic drug is ravaging youth. Trash-strewn alleys are lined with boys and young men slumped in addiction. Healthcare services are severely limited. One frustrated community has set up what it calls a treatment center, run by volunteers. But harsh measures can be used. Source link
Two bank workers and a former beauty pageant winner from Indiana have been charged with assisting a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization with money laundering. The federal indictment related to the case was unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of […]
Two bank workers and a former beauty pageant winner from Indiana have been charged with assisting a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization with money laundering. The federal indictment related to the case was unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of […]
Two bank workers and a former beauty pageant winner from Indiana have been charged with assisting a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization with money laundering. The federal indictment related to the case was unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of […]
D.C. prosecutors said they’re driving down violence in the District by taking down warring gangs in quick succession, with the Thursday arrest of nine suspected drug traffickers in Northeast coming just over a week after 15 members of a nearby rival crew were taken into custody. Source link
In an isolated part of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters known as the 12th-floor “bubble,” chief Anne Milgram made an unusual request of top deputies summoned in March for what she called the “Marijuana Meeting”: Nobody could take notes. Source link
Big Pharma giant Pfizer confirmed on Wednesday that it will settle more than 10,000 lawsuits over allegations that the company failed to warn people about possible cancer risks caused by their Zantac product. Zantac is the company’s once-popular anti-heartburn medication featured in a multitude of television commercials, many of which featured an animated fireman character. […]
On the West Coast, cities like Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco have begun to roll back their lax enforcement of drug use. In refusing to prosecute offenders, jails may be less crowded, but the hospitals are doing gangbuster business with overdoses, and undertakers are getting rich burying the victims of skyrocketing drug deaths. […]
Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin discussed his previous battles with addiction during a new podcast interview that dropped Wednesday. The 66-year-old, who is awaiting trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the October 2021 shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western film “Rust” in New Mexico, divulged he once used cocaine […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. The DEA’s proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management […]
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