July 21, 2021 Jason Rantz: Don't just blame COVID for surge in overdose deaths, Dems' bad policies are responsible, too More Americans died from fatal overdoses in 2020 than in any other year since we started tracking the data. It was both historic and tragic.
July 15, 2021 Biden border policies have allowed drugs to flood into US as overdose deaths hit new record: Angel mom Current border policies under the Biden administration have allowed China’s criminal 'partnership' with Mexican cartels to flourish after U.S. drug overdose deaths hit a new record in 2020, according to Parents Against Illicit Narcotics Founder Virginia Kreiger.
July 15, 2021 Coronavirus-related stress likely a factor in record overdose deaths, experts say Overdose deaths hit a record 93,000 amid coronavirus last year due to pandemic-driven instabilities and loss of support systems, inaccess to medical care and the increasing presence of deadly synthetic opioids, top experts in addiction suspect.
July 14, 2021 US overdose deaths hit record 93,000 amid coronavirus last year Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday.
July 10, 2021 Harvard to study pyschedelics and the law as decriminalization gains steam Harvard University has plans to study "equity in psychedelics research, commerce and therapeutics," thanks to a new search grant.
July 9, 2021 Biologist to Tucker: If Ivermectin proven effective against COVID, it moots vaccine push Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist claimed Friday on "Tucker Carlson Today" that, if the anti-malarial drug Ivermectin is effective against COVID, it would moot the usage of the coronavirus vaccine.
June 30, 2021 Police shoot, kill California man near marijuana farms evacuated by fire Officers shot and killed a man who pulled a gun as they tried to keep him out of a complex of marijuana farms in an area of far Northern California where thousands of people were ordered to evacuate as a wildfire raged during a heat wave enveloping part of the U.S. West, authorities said.
June 25, 2021 Several states legalize Fentanyl test strips to help save lives Across the country more states are beginning to legalize drug testing strips that can detect the presence of the potent opioid Fentanyl to avoid deadly overdoses. Arizona is the latest state to legalize these it, allowing users to see if their drugs have been laced with lethal doses.
June 24, 2021 San Diego fentanyl overdoses tripled amid COVID-19 lockdowns The San Diego County District Attorney's Office is warning residents about fatal fentanyl overdoses in the Southern California city.
June 24, 2021 In pandemic, drug overdose deaths soar among Black Americans Craig Elazer had struggled all his life with anxiety so bad his whole body would shake. But because he was Black, he was seen as unruly, she said, not as a person who needed help.