In the case of King County’s skyrocketing drug overdoses — which increased nearly 50 percent in just the past year — local officials have declared the problem “a public health crisis.” However, fentanyl is illegal, which means that the overdoses are also indicative of a crime problem, ...
reflecting a stark reality where open fentanyl use is a common sight.After grappling with soaring fentanyl overdose rates, Oregon pioneered a 2020 law called Measure 110 that partly decriminalized the possession of certain drugs. Oregon's Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act aimed to ...
The root cause of the fentanyl abuse crisis in the US lies in the country's failure of governance. Yet US policymakers, being unwilling to address that issue, habitually resort to shifting the blame and responsibility for the crisis onto others. Previous US administrations launched lawsuits and s...
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Oregon Health & Science University researchers reported a sharp increase in the number of Oregon children who were exposed to fentanyl in the last 3 years, and a 449% increase among the same age group nationally, highlighting the devastating impact of the fentanyl crisis on young children. The ...
Fentanylis a powerful synthetic opioid is used in medical settings as a pain reliever. It's also fueled the country's overdose crisis, and its theft from hospitals is a longstanding problem.
With fentanyl and pills flooding communities at the heart of the genre, artists such as Brad Paisley, Elvie Shane, Jaime Wyatt, and others are meeting the crisis in song and in action Country Crisis By Jeff Gage Oregon Is Ready to Restart the Drug War A radical three-year experiment...
"We're in that crisis situation where we need all hands on deck to help prevent people from dying," said Kelly E. Dunn, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who advised the company on the design for human trials of the medicat...
has had to reallocate staff from drug enforcement to enforce Trump’s obsession with illegal immigrants. CBP officers on the border told Oregon Republican Congressman Greg Walden that drug enforcement had declined because agents were "overwhelmed" by the migrant crisis. Mexican drug cartel...
Fentanyl was also the highest rate of drug overdose deaths in eight of the 10 regions in the United States in 2021. Region 8 and Region 10, which combined include Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, were the only two regions...