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, …
Continue ReadingAttorney 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 …
Continue ReadingA 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 …
Continue ReadingPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered security officers in his country to ignore United Nations human rights investigators in a speech this week. Addressing investigators at a security conference in his hometown of Davao City, the Philippine president said, “You’re investigating …
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