Unintentional Overdoses a Growing Risk

Unintentional overdoses a growing risk

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Some of the dead fit the stereotype: young addicts pushing too far one night in search of a high, popping extra pills, or crushing and snorting them, or heating, liquefying and smoking or injecting them. But the highest rate of overdose deaths is among …
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Eugene Jarecki: 'A jailer is as victimized by the drug war as the person he is

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His most recent film is “The House I Live In,” a blistering critique of the conduct of the drug war and especially of its impact on poor and minority communities. We spoke in Shiloh Baptist Church in Shaw, Washington, D.C., where today he is hosting a …
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Breaking the cycle: City, county efforts to curb property crime show some

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While a pre-booking diversion plan could help with efforts to control drug sales and drug addiction on the street level, Santa Fe police are also working on attacking the suppliers who feed illegal drugs onto Santa Fe streets. Rael said the department …
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Martin Luther King tribute in Woodstock (video)

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Leroy said Alexander, in the book, demonstrates how the mass incarceration of African American men (six out of 10 over the age of 20) is due to the War on Drugs legislation, whose purpose is to prevent and halt drug sales across the country by …
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