Those Troubling OD Statistics
In recent months, samples have been found with as much as 20% fentanyl content. It’s easy to see how this could increase both the total number of overdoses, and the percentage of victims who did not survive.
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Big Pot Meets Big Labor
This might be a good opportunity for a closer look at exactly how wealthy and established the industry has become
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New Money or Not?
It turns out that the funds in question had previously been delayed, for months… now to be released late.
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This isn’t an emergency?
…a drug that kills nearly 500 Americans every day, and causes more deaths in a typical year than every infectious disease combined. It is manufactured abroad and domestically, then sold by powerful multinational organizations with a vast network of distributors
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Bad Days in Baltimore
At the same time, people do keep overdosing and dying, apparently in record numbers.
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Alcohol Study Suppressed
As it turns out, the alcohol industry— the people who make and distribute and sell alcoholic beverages to the public— strongly objected.
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Welcome to EVALI
…somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 EVALI cases to date, 50 of which resulted in fatalities.
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Fool Me, Please
…a chatbot doesn’t actually feel anything for the user. It’s simply doing what it was programmed to do. Principally, that’s serving as a perfect mirror.
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86 that, will ya?
Anyway, “86ing” involved nothing more than a firm instruction to beat feet, and shut the door behind you.
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A Most Unsatisfactory Ending
A Purdue lawyer said most of the lawsuits against the company over opioids did not include specific financial claims. But the ones in those that did totalled over $40tn in damages.
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A New Czar at ONDCP
…newly appointed Drug Czar is Sara Carter, a 45 year-old investigative journalist best known for her reporting on the US-Mexico border, and her appearances as a contributor on the Fox News Network
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A Big Bet on an Uncertain Future
…simply relocating a common human and societal problem online is only going to expand its scope, and with that, the sheer number of problems it will inevitably create.
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Numbers Game
“Significantly lesser quantities of drugs are smuggled directly into the United States by traffickers using maritime conveyances than by traffickers using overland routes.”
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