A law written to prevent human trafficking is being wielded against low-level drug dealers. The effects are long-lasting.
Tag: Drug Abuse and Traffic
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Walmart Agrees to Pay $3.1 Billion to Settle Opioid Lawsuits Nationwide
The money would help pay for addiction treatment and drug education programs in communities across the United States.
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Key Evidence in Report on Missing Mexican Students Cannot Be Verified, Experts Say
An international panel said it had found numerous inconsistencies in evidence presented by the government’s truth commission on the disappearance of the 43 students in 2014.
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The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir
In “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” the actor gets serious about sobriety, mortality, colostomy bags and pickleball.
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Biden Administration to Offer Plan to Get Addiction-Fighting Medicine to Pregnant Women
Pregnant women are more likely to die of a drug overdose than the average woman of childbearing age, but less likely to be accepted for medication-based treatment.