Drugs
Drugs by Mail: Feds Note Surge in Postal Dealing
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Seizures of small lots of fentanyl arriving by mail increased sharply last year. “Your drug dealer today is your mailman,” says the father of one overdose victim.
Drugs
North American Pot Seizures Down, Adult Use Up: UN
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The decline in marijuana seizures between 2010 and 2015 roughly tracks the period when U.S. states began enacting measures to legalize or decriminalize pot, according to the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime. Meanwhile, marijuana use among adults has risen.
Drugs
Critics: Sessions Looks Back to Revive Failed Drug War
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David Cole of the ACLU and Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project say there is little reason to believe that Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ 1980s-style response to the narcotics menace will do anything to solve the problem.
Drugs
MO Joins States Suing Big Pharma Over Opioid Crisis
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Missouri joins a growing list of states that have sued pharmaceutical firms. State Attorney General Josh Hawley says their “campaign of fraud and deception” led to the opioid crisis. The suit names the pharmaceutical firms Endo, Purdue and Janssen.
Drugs
Insurance Study Links Car-Crash Bump to Legalized Weed
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An industry research group says data shows a 2.7 percent increase in collision claims since recreational marijuana sales began in 2014 and 2015 in Colorado, Washington and Oregon.
Drugs
Higher Imprisonment Rates Don’t Curb Drug Abuse: Study
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A Pew Charitable Trust analysis shows no correlation between state-level imprisonment rates of drug offenders and rates of illicit drug use, overdose deaths, and arrests.
Drugs
National Opioid Epidemic Swamping Hospitals
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New federal data show a 64 percent increase for inpatient care and a 99 percent jump for emergency room treatment between 2005 and 2014.
Drugs
State AGs Join to Investigate Painkiller Makers
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A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is investigating the marketing of prescription painkillers and the causes of widespread opioid addiction. The probe, which includes a majority of states, will target the allegedly deceptive marketing of the drugs.
Drugs
States Study Civil Commitments for Opioid Addicts
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Amid an opioid addiction epidemic that is killing more than 90 Americans every day, there is a movement to make it easier for relatives and health care providers to secure court orders quickly that would forcibly confine and treat people who are addicted to drugs.
Drugs
Do Mexican Journalist Murders Undermine U.S. Drug War?
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No one has been arrested in the killing of award-winning journalist Javier Valdez in Mexico last month. Some 90 percent of crimes against journalists in that country go unpunished.