Drug overdose

  • Fentanyl deaths still high in the US despite govt intervention

    Twenty-eight-year old Ambrose Begay died after a fentanyl overdose under a tree 125 yards from his home on the Alamo Navajo reservation in southern New Mexico two years ago. He is among a generation of young Native Americans losing their lives to drug overdoses in increasing numbers even as such deaths decline nationwide. Begay’s grandfather,…

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  • More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the yearlong period ending in April, The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing provisional figures from the National Center for Health Statistics. It is for the first time the number of overdose deaths in the United States has surpassed 100,000 a year after increasing almost 30…

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  • “Carson almost died LOL.” That was the caption, police say, of one social media post about 14-year-old British Columbia teen Carson Crimeni—who did not, in fact, end up surviving. Carlson was found alone and unresponsive in a Langley Township skate park Wednesday night, and could not be revived. Police think someone gave the teen drugs…

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  • DMX was summoned in a New York City court today 11 August, after he reportedly failed a total of four tests for coke and weed. Prosecutor handling his case said the 46-year-old rapper needed to hear the riot act, having survived death from drug overdose earlier this year. The Great Depression rapper was thirty minutes late for…

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