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The website naloxoneexchange.com, is the brainchild of James Lott, a Chicago pharmacist who hopes removing the stigma from the purchase and increasing accessibility online will allow anyone to prepare for the worst.
“This is an emergency. The entire system is overwhelmed,” said a Customs and Border Protection official. “We are just trying to safely get them out of our facilities as quickly as possible.”
The most prominent one may be that prisons are full of nonviolent drug offenders. Under 15 percent of inmates are behind bars for drug crimes.
2019 was supposed to be a big year for marijuana legalization, but in many state capitols, efforts have stalled or collapsed as Democrats clash over everything from race and criminal justice to how to divvy up pot tax revenue.
Manchester Bidwell Corp. may buy 137-year-old closed prison in Pittsburgh for a “world-class training facility.”
Casino giant MGM Resorts told federal regulators it might pay $800 million to settle liability lawsuits stemming from the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas — the deadliest in modern U.S. history. An attorney for plaintiffs said “we’re not even close” to a deal.
With $300 million in Oklahoma and West Virginia and a lot more to come, advocates hope that money will go to overdose prevention and other public health programs. An Oklahoma jury trial involving three drug makers is scheduled this month.
Don Johnson was executed in Tennessee for the 1984 suffocation of his wife, Connie. He initially blamed his wife’s slaying on a work-release inmate. In Alabama, Michael Brandon Samra was put to death for taking part in the killings of four people, including two young girls.
A New York City police commander received text messages from an officer informing him that a man identified as Eric Garner had been arrested, and was “most likely DOA” after beingn wrestled to the ground. “Not a big deal,” the lieutenant replied. “We were effecting a lawful arrest.”
A 20-year string of mass shootings in schools has overshadowed threats and violence on a smaller scale, against teachers, which often go underreported, misreported or completely ignored,