Why states are taking a fresh look at drug-free zones
WASHINGTON — In the late 1980s, every state and the District of Columbia had laws that imposed harsh penalties on drug offenses committed near schools. The idea behind the “drug-free school zones” was...
View ArticleDrugmakers fought state opioid limits amid crisis
The makers of prescription painkillers have adopted a 50-state strategy that includes hundreds of lobbyists and millions in campaign contributions to help kill or weaken measures aimed at stemming the...
View ArticleAmerica can end its war on drugs. Here's how.
Decades into the war on drugs, the world doesn't have much to show for it. The US is now in the middle of an opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic that has killed tens of thousands each year, despite...
View ArticleKBPS – How Opioid Addition Caught San Diego Communities Unaware (September...
(Source: CBHDA - County Behavioral Health Directors Association) Aired 9/12/16 on KPBS Midday Edition. How Opioid Addiction Caught San Diego Communities Unaware GUEST: Leo Castaneda, reporter,...
View ArticleDoctors must lead us out of our opioid abuse epidemic
(CNN)Veteran doctors don't need a blood test to tell when someone is on the verge of a drug overdose. They can even narrow down the culprit by observation alone. Dilated pupils mean cocaine,...
View ArticleHow Ohio prosecutors are fighting back against deadly heroin
(CNN)The short, scarce breaths had all but stopped by the time the paramedics arrived. On August 21, EMS workers in Springfield, Ohio, found a heroin user passed out behind the wheel of a car. Having...
View ArticleCongress’s Take on the Heroin Epidemic
A heroin epidemic is on fire all across America. Heroin deaths shot up from 1,779 in 2001 to 10,574 in 2014 as Afghan opium poppy fields metastasized from 7,600 hectares in 2001 (when the War in...
View ArticleWhat's behind growing push to punish dealers in fatal ODs?
Faced with an alarming increase in opioid addiction, a growing number of prosecutors are charging dealers not just for selling but for the deaths of customers who overdose on heroin or fentanyl. Here...
View ArticleDrug-addicted, dangerous and licensed for the operating room
Dr. Joely Nelson slumped from a living room chair onto a pillow on the hearth of the fireplace, her face scorched from the heat, her dead body riddled with drugs. A fellow anesthesiologist found her...
View ArticleSummit County gets tough on heroin deaths, charging drug suppliers with...
When Charles Marotto was recently sentenced to five years in prison for providing a fatal hit of heroin to a man he considered a friend, few people left the courtroom happy. Not Marotto. Not the...
View ArticleThe Stacks: The Judas Priest Teen Suicide Trial
Two teenage boys, one heavy metal album, and one sawed-off shotgun produced a lethal combination. Was Judas Priest to blame? In the summer of 1990, the heavy metal band Judas Priest stood trial in...
View ArticleKRISTINE
It’s autumn of 2010 and I’m standing in the exact spot where ten-year-old Kristine Mihelich was found dead as fucking winter in 1977, her newly plum-colored face a muted beacon in the freshly fallen...
View ArticleDoctor accused of issuing thousands of illegal drug prescriptions
A San Gabriel Valley doctor pleaded not guilty Thursday to writing thousands of illegal prescriptions for powerful painkillers during late-night weekend visits and then laundering the money he received...
View ArticleDrug dealer guilty in Clark County overdose death
UPDATE @ 10:30 p.m. (Oct. 8): A drug dealer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter tonight for selling heroin that led to an overdose death. A jury found Lucas Fowler, 25, of Springfield Twp.,...
View ArticleExperts say empathy for addicts the result of heroin’s grip on white population
The Rev. Mike Starks witnessed the destruction of crack cocaine, but not from the sidelines — he was a self-described gangster and drug addict before he became a minister. The Akron community activist...
View ArticleNew Jersey man pleads guilty in drug-related death
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A southern New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from another man's...
View ArticleClark County drug dealer guilty in overdose death
A drug dealer has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the first time ever in Clark County for selling drugs that led to an overdose death . A jury found Lucas Fowler, 25, of Springfield...
View ArticleCamillus mom tells crowd at drug forum daughter's overdose shattered her life
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A Camillus woman told a crowd of about 450 people at a public forum on drugs Wednesday night her life "was shattered into a million pieces" when her 24-year-old daughter died of a...
View ArticleGuilty plea to drug charge in case linked to Derek Boogaard death
A former minor league hockey player accused of selling prescription painkillers to an ex-hockey player who died of an accidental overdose pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanour drug charge. Jordan...
View ArticleGuilty plea to drug charge in case linked to Boogaard death
NEW YORK (AP) — A former minor league hockey player accused of selling prescription painkillers to an ex-hockey player who died of an accidental overdose pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor drug...
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