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Experts on policing and canines said the data shows that “a lot of people are having their cars searched who shouldn’t, and that they are forced … to endure invasive searches that can be frightening and humiliating.”
The outcome of the trial effort could help reshape the nation’s approach to substance abuse and criminal justice.
The study results represented a marked reversal from the findings of a 2014 study, which showed a correlation between legal medical cannabis and lower opioid mortality.
Despite enforcement actions over the last six years that led to the shutdown of about half a dozen online illegal drug sales websites, there are still close to 30 illegal online markets. The FBI is running a Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team.
Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after agreeing to pay $225 million to settle federal criminal and civil cases against the company for bribing doctors to prescribe its fentanyl-based painkiller.
Under a court settlement, Stephanie DiPierro of Massachusetts is becoming the first federal inmate to get ongoing methadone treatment for heroin addiction.
A Kentucky pain management specialist tells an Oklahoma judge how opioids can cause more pain than they relieve, as a major case against drug manufacturers completes its eighth day of testimony.
William Husel, a Columbus, Ohio critical-care doctor, was arrested and charged with murder in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who authorities say were deliberately given overdoses of painkillers.
Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay $225 million to resolve civil and criminal actions brought by the U.S. Justice Department over alleged kickbacks and marketing of its opioid painkiller Subsys.
Minorities have so far had little success in breaking into the legal pot industry. But two African-American entrepreneurs in New York hope to change that.