Last week was a busy one for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as the nation’s health watchdog began taking serious action to combat the rising opioid crisis.
Source: CDC
It has been a busy month, in general, for top health officials.
A synthetic opioid created in the 1970’s has made an appearance in parts of Texas recently, and health officials are concerned about the dangers associated with it.
At least 2 North Texans have been hospitalized after using the drug, U-47700, according to officials with the North Texas Poison Center. Dr. Joann Schulte, a toxicologist with the North Texas Poison Control Center said of the dangerous substance:
“No matter how you want to party – I don’t think anyone wants to die.”
On Thursday, the Senate approved a bill aimed at tackling the nation’s growing painkiller- and heroin-abuse epidemic, but it may prove to be a useless effort.
Source: NAADAC
Eight people in Massachusetts have died from overdoses of a particularly deadly batch of heroin in the past week, but detectives don’t know where it came from.
On Saturday, police confiscated 9,000 bags of “Hollywood” heroin in Springfield, Massachusetts. Cops had stepped up patrols in western Massachusetts after the 8 deaths, 3 of which occurred on New Year’s Day.
Opiate addiction continues to plague the United States.
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By Douglas Valentine | Dissident Voice | September 19, 2015 The outlawing of narcotic drugs at the start of the Twentieth Century, the turning of the matter from public health to social control, coincided with American’s imperial Open Door policy and the belief that the government had an obligation to American industrialists to create markets […]
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