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12/04/2024
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By Ava Grace
China is worsening America’s fentanyl crisis, and Trump is threatening to slap more tariffs until Beijing ends it
China’s central role in worsening the United States’ fentanyl crisis has come under the spotlight once again thanks to President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of imposing greater tariffs on the communist nation until it steps up to prevent the international trafficking of the highly addictive drug. Trump has vowed to impose an additional 10 percent tariff […]
08/20/2024
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By Kevin Hughes
Doctors, drug dealers ARRESTED in connection with actor Matthew Perry’s ketamine overdose death
Several suspects were arrested on Thursday, Aug. 15, in Southern California in connection with the drug overdose death of actor Matthew Perry last year. On Oct. 28, 2023, the 54-year-old Perry, most known for his role in the television sitcom “Friends,” was found dead in the heated end of a pool at his Pacific Palisades home in Los […]
07/10/2024
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By Olivia Cook
Amount of fentanyl seized across the U.S. this year enough to kill the combined population of America’s 5 largest states
The amount of fentanyl confiscated across America so far this year is enough to kill the more than half of the country’s population. The fentanyl crisis in the United States has reached unprecedented levels, posing a severe threat to public health and safety. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more potent than morphine, […]
06/25/2024
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By Laura Harris
Canada allocates millions for “safe supply” drug programs that have been linked to increased drug violence and overdose deaths
The Trudeau government recently announced its plans to allocate more than $27 million toward “safe supply” drug programs this fiscal year, despite the increased violence and overdose deaths they have caused in British Columbia when they were implemented in 2023. “Safe supply” programs provide addicts with government-prescribed drugs under the premise that a more controlled batch of narcotics […]
02/06/2024
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By Olivia Cook
San Francisco drug overdose deaths hit all-time high in 2023 with FENTANYL largely to blame
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of San Francisco has confirmed that nearly a hundred more people in the city died in 2023 of a fatal drug overdose than they did in the previous record-breaking year of 2020, with the deaths last year fueled largely by the ongoing fentanyl crisis. The final 2023 total of […]
10/13/2023
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By Zoey Sky
Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Drug trafficking, immigration are crisis MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITIES of the U.S. and Mexico
Drug trafficking and immigration crisis are issues that must be handled through cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken and other Biden administration officials met on Oct. 5 to discuss shared security, health and public safety issues at the 2023 U.S.-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue. During an Oct. 3 […]
09/13/2023
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By Laura Harris
Newsom deploys 50% more California National Guardsmen along U.S.-Mexico border to combat drug trafficking, but won’t halt illegal immigration
California Gov. Gavin Newsome has increased the deployment of California National Guard (CalGuard) troops along the state’s border with Mexico by approximately 50 percent to combat the influx of fentanyl and other narcotics into the United States. The additional CalGuard personnel will be deployed in five ports of entry along the southern border: Otay Mesa, […]
09/13/2023
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By Kevin Hughes
San Francisco’s posh hotels have turned into “dens of death” due to DRUG CRISIS
The Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, once known as the city’s premier entertainment district, is now a symbol of the city’s collapse due to the drug crisis. The New York Post expounded on this issue in a report about the so-called “dens of death” at the City by the Bay. These dens of death had formerly […]
08/24/2023
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By Lance D Johnson
Overdose deaths have skyrocketed since 2019, with synthetic and prescription opioids driving the crisis
The number of people overdosing on illicit and pharmaceutical drugs has steadily increased every year over the past two decades. The two most recent years (2020 and 2021) saw the greatest increase in overdose deaths. In 1999, there were less than 20,000 overdose deaths recorded by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the […]
07/10/2023
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By Ramon Tomey
Virginia classifies FENTANYL as weapon of TERRORISM in response to rise in overdose deaths
The state of Virginia has officially classified the opioid fentanyl as a “weapon of terrorism” in response to overdoses caused by the drug. According to local news outlet FFX Now, two bills signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin in March codified this classification. Senate Bill (SB) 1188 and House Bill (HB) 1682, introduced by Republican State Sen. […]
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