U.S. Surgeon General, In Rare Public Advisory, Urges Americans to Carry Anti-Opioid Overdose Drug

The U.S. Surgeon General has issued the first public health advisory in years, calling on Americans to carry Naloxone, a drug that reverses the deadly effects of opioid overdoses. Surgeon General Jerome Adams characterized the advisory as the best, …

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Directs U.S. Attorneys to Pursue Death Penalty for Drug Dealers

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has directed federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in cases involving drug traffickers he announced today. In a memo written to U.S. Attorneys, Sessions said the drug epidemic and specifically the opioid epidemic, has inflicted …

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President’s Opioid Drug Plan Said to Include Death Penalty for Dealers

A framework for combating the nation’s opioid crisis crafted by the Trump administration has leaked and it includes reimbursement restrictions to help curtail opioid prescriptions, an easing of regulations allowing for addiction treatment and controversially, the death penalty as punishment …

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