Once again the British media is going through a James Bond moment following the discovery on Monday of two Russians – Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia – seriously ill and poisoned on a bench in the town of Salisbury.
Olympics outbreaks, epidemic levels and food stamp collectors + this day in history w/Saint Valentine and our song of the day by Shakey Graves on your Morning Monarchy for February 14, 2018.
Tide pods, Coke worms and shots of Patrón + this day in history w/Ted Bundy's execution and our song of the day by Calexico on your Morning Monarchy for January 24, 2018.
Gut feelings, water rights and the Belluminati + this day in history w/the AOL-Time Warner merger and our song of the day by Diane Coffee on your Morning Monarchy for January 10, 2018.
Cause of death, age of consent and burning initials + this day in history w/the Sandy Hook school shooting and our song of the day by Sufjan Stevens on your Morning Monarchy for December 14, 2017.
President Trump’s opioid commission has urged him to declare a national state of emergency over America’s burgeoning opioid crisis. The recommendation comes from a preliminary draft of the commission’s report. [2]
By declaring an emergency, Trump’s cabinet would be able to take action, and Congress would be forced to fund potential solutions to the epidemic.
The Houston Police Department has ended its longstanding practice of using $2 chemical kits to make drugs arrests, a policy that had contributed to hundreds of wrongful convictions in recent years.
In a report, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review the safety and effectiveness of opioid painkillers. The panel of experts says monumental changes are needed to the way in which physicians treat pain, their patients cope with pain, and government and private insurers support individuals’ treatment for chronic pain. [1]
Los Angeles Police officers assist Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA agents serving a federal warrant to shut down a Marijuana dispensary operating in the Chinatown area of Los Angeles.
For the first time in U.S. History, more Americans died in 2016 of drug overdoses than were killed in the Vietnam War. Let that sink in.
(ANTIMEDIA) — Data compiled by the New York Times has shown that the number of drug overdose deaths in 2016 exceeded the 59,000 mark.
