In San Diego, carnivorous bacteria that enter the body along with black tar from heroin use killed 2 people in 7 months, according to US health officials. Writes about this USA Today. In the period from October 2 to November 24, 9 people who ...
An avalanche of fatal overdoses of fentanyl covered Chicago, Philadelphia and major cities in Maryland. The "death trend" is increasing and rapidly spreading to other cities in America and Europe. What is the cause of the fentanyl epidemic and what is its scale, Mind understood. For several decades, "synthetic ...
President Trump has been urged to declare a state of emergency to combat the opioid overdose epidemic. The call for the provision comes from a commission looking at the opioid crisis that Trump created by decree in March. The Commission was chaired by the Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. In a 10-page report, the commission describes the dire situation ...
Seattle will become the first city in the United States to open a "injection room" - a room where drug addicts can inject themselves with a sterile needle and, possibly, under the supervision of a nurse. Similar ideas were raised in Baltimore, New York, Boston and San Francisco, but they remained ideas. Seattle...
Police in Trenton, the capital of New Jersey, are investigating an unusual incident. The boy, whose name has not been released, brought 30 packets of heroin to the kindergarten. According to the police, who arrived on call at Trenton International Academy, the teacher noticed a 5-year-old boy playing with a package that looked like a wrapper ...
In Miami, the owner of the villa of the famous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is about to demolish the house to find treasures. Miamiherald.com writes about it Entrepreneur Christian de Berduard bought Escobar's villa two years ago. Now the owner of the building intends to find money, gold and jewelry under it. By…
During the New Hampshire election campaign, Jeb Bush spoke emotionally about his plans, ideas and the painful period when his daughter, Noel, struggled with her drug addiction, and how she ended up behind bars. He met people whose relatives are suffering or have died from ...
An Uzbek citizen tried to smuggle 169 containers of heroin in his stomach. This was announced by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The drug courier arrived in Russia from the Uzbek city of Termez and was detained at the capital's Domodedovo airport. X-rays showed that there were many containers in the detainee's intestines ...
US police neutralized a heroin trafficking criminal gang in Brooklyn. More than two dozen people were arrested, including a court employee. They disguised the sale of drugs as delivering boxes of oatmeal and cornflakes. An apartment located in one of the ...
While there is a debate in the US about the need to legalize marijuana, one aspect of the fight against drugs remains controversial. Some of the most dangerous drugs in this country are completely legal. For those who do not believe in this, there are statistics from the Center for ...