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Justice Department Announces It Will End the Use of Private Prisons—Private...
August 14th, 2016 Following the release last week of a report panning private prisons as inferior to public institutions in practically every way, the Justice Department announced today that it will...
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Scientists Develop This Utterly Amazing Way to Make Bacteria Deliver Chemo...
August 17th, 2016 Scientists say they’ve found an amazing way to use special bacteria to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly to tumors, reports Emily Chung for CBC News. By doing this, the Canadian...
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Milwaukee Sheriff Blames “Liberalism” and “Black Cultural Dysfunction” for...
August 16th, 2016 As his city protests and burns, Milwaukee sheriff and Trump surrogate David A. Clarke (above) has been unleashing a bizarre and hateful Twitter storm against liberals, black people...
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Alleged “Flakka Face-Eater” Is the Media’s New “Bath-Salts Zombie”
Four years after the media frenzy erupted around the notorious Miami “bath salts zombie” (who was not actually on bath salts), eerily similar reports—out of, you guessed it, Florida—have surfaced. This...
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Far-Right Anti-Semites and Far-Right Israel Supporters Attack Philanthropist...
August 15th, 2016 George Soros, the Hungarian-born business magnate and philanthropist who funds many liberal causes, including drug-policy reform, has long been a hate-figure to the Right. But fringe...
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The Baltimore Police Department Guilty of Shocking Racial Discrimination, DoJ...
August 10th, 2016 The US Justice Department has found truly shocking levels of racial discrimination and abuse of power in the Baltimore police department following an investigation launched in...
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Aleppo Still Suffers From Lack of Clean Water and Medicines as Renewed...
August 9th, 2016 The UN has called for a humanitarian ceasefire after water-pumping facilities were damaged during a renewed round of fierce fighting in Aleppo, Syria. A statement from UN officials...
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Native American Teen Faces Year in Jail for Tiny Amount of Pot—In a State...
July 28th, 2016 A 19-year-old Native American man in Oregon faces up to one year in prison for possession of a single gram of marijuana, the Guardian reports. Devontre Thomas could be incarcerated for...
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UNGASS 2016: The Caravan for Peace, Life and Justice Arrives in NYC After a...
The Caravan for Peace, Life and Justice arrived at the United Nations building in New York City this afternoon, completing a journey that began on March 28th in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras....
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Watch: Catholic Priest Snorts Cocaine After Two-Day Bender
A Catholic priest unwisely let himself get caught on video snorting a line of cocaine with an aptly penurious £10. According to attendees, the coke topped a two-day party at his parish in the UK....
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Duterte Threatens to Start His Own UN
August 22nd, 2016 In response to resounding criticisms from the UN over his murderous war on drugs, the Philippines’ president, Rodrigo Duterte, has threatened to withdraw the country from the...
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This Man Spent Over a Decade in Prison After Being Framed by a Cop for...
September 16th, 2016 A 43-year-old Chicago man named Ben Baker filed a federal lawsuit today alleging that he spent over a decade in prison on false drug charges—and that the Chicago police department...
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Cops Resign After Forcing Teenager to Eat Weed Found During Traffic Stop
September 23rd, 2016 Three Phoenix officers—Richard Pina, Jason McFadden and Michael Carnicle—have resigned after it was revealed that they forced a teenager to eat the weed in his car to avoid jail...
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Trump Suggests BLM Protesters Are on Drugs
September 23rd, 2016 Yesterday, Donald Trump weighed in on the protests that have been taking place in Charlotte, NC in response to Tuesday’s police killing of Keith Lamont Scott, a black, disabled man...
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FDA Orders Opiate Taken off Market
For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked a drug manufacturer to remove an opioid painkiller from the market. In June, the FDA directed Endo Pharmaceuticals to recall its...
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Lawsuits piling up for OxyContin manufacturer, Purdue Pharma
So far in the opioid epidemic, as with the rest of the drug war, law enforcement has been quick to hand out punishments to average dealers and users, disproportionately affecting people of color. But...
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Anti-addiction efforts paying off for rural Minnesota hospital
One way to tackle the epidemic of opiate addiction that has swept America is to change doctor’s prescribing habits. That tactic has worked well for doctors at CHI St. Gabriel’s Hospital in Little...
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President’s opiate commission issues recommendations
President Trump’s commission on combating the opioid epidemic plans has called on the federal government to establish drug courts in every federal judicial district, lower barriers to treatment,...
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New business model: treat rural addicts
One of the most effective, new tools in the battle against opiate addiction is Suboxone, the FDA-approved medication that helps recovering addicts by blocking cravings. However, access to Suboxone has...
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28 Wisconsin counties sue opiate manufacturers
In recent months, more than 25 other states, cities, and counties, including attorneys general in Ohio and Missouri, have filed lawsuits against manufacturers of opioid pain medications, alleging they...
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