Health
Guam governor supports legalizing pot for recreational use
Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo has proposed legalizing recreational marijuana on the island, with heavy taxation.
Dec 20, 2016
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Health
Study estimates 1,900 arrest-related deaths occurred in US between June 2015-May 2016
An estimated 1,900 people died in the United States during arrest or while in police custody June 2015 through May 2016, according to a new report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and RTI International.
Dec 16, 2016
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Addiction
4 Hours in Huntington: how the heroin epidemic choked a city
He found the woman slumped over the steering wheel, an empty syringe on the floorboard and her skin dulling to a purplish blue.
Sep 4, 2016
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Addiction
Elephant sedative emerges as new threat in overdose battle
A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals, 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country's heroin troubles, is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states, where authorities say they've ...
Jul 28, 2016
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Health
Feds charge 300 in nationwide health care fraud sweeps
Health care fraud sweeps across the country have led to charges against 300 people including doctors, nurses, physical therapists and home health care providers accused of bilking Medicare and Medicaid, the government announced ...
Jun 22, 2016
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Medications
As crisis rages, hospital works to reduce opioids in the ER
Mark Rosenberg doesn't need to go to his job as chairman of emergency medicine at New Jersey's busiest emergency room to get a bracing insight into the mushrooming problem of opioid abuse.
Mar 28, 2016
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Experts call for global drug policy reform as evidence shows 'war on drugs' has harmed public health and human rights
Fifty years of drug policies aimed at restricting and criminalizing drug use and minor possession have had serious detrimental effects on the health, wellbeing and human rights of drug users and the wider public, according ...
Mar 24, 2016
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Medications
Pharmacists would decide under new proposal to curb meth
Pharmacists could require customers they suspect of making methamphetamine to present a prescription when they attempt to buy medicine containing a key ingredient for the drug, under a compromise bill proposed in the Indiana ...
Jan 22, 2016
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Health
Medical marijuana's big business lures ex-law enforcers
With fewer than 4,000 approved patients, the nascent medical marijuana business in Illinois is off to a slow start. Yet it hasn't kept away a cadre of cannabis entrepreneurs who once relied on guns, badges, tough drug laws ...
Dec 27, 2015
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New York launches campaign in drive against K2
"Zero percent marijuana, 100 percent dangerous."
Nov 20, 2015
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