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Prescribing controlled drugs over Zoom

Restrictions on telehealth prescriptions for controlled substances were waived during the pandemic—but may not last

Salon

Behavioral telehealth loses momentum without a regulatory boost

Controlled substances became a little less controlled during the pandemic. That benefited both patients (for their health) and telehealth startups (to make money).

Tribune News Service

Federal fentanyl pill seizures doubled in 2022

DETROIT — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than double the number of fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills in 2022 than it did the previous year, the agency announced Wednesday.

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Biden heads to Mexico with immigration, fentanyl on the agenda

US President Joe Biden will seek Mexico's help tackling illegal flows of migrants and drugs, particularly deadly opioids, during a visit beginning Sunday for a North American leaders' summit.

France 24

Mexican capo's arrest a gesture to US, not signal of change

Mexico’s capture of a son of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán this week likely is an isolated nod to a drug war strategy that Mexico’s current administration has abandoned rather than a sign that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s thinking has changed

The Independent UK

Drug science in 2023 is gonna be lit

2022 was a record-breaking year for drug research. 2023 may be even better thanks to loosened research restrictions

Salon

Feds sue drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen over opioid sales

The U.S. Justice Department is alleging that a major drug wholesaler contributed to the deadly toll from opioids by turning a blind eye to warning signs about suspicious sales to its pharmacy customers

The Independent UK

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Feds sue AmerisourceBergen over 'hundreds of thousands' of alleged opioid violations

DOJ officials say the drug wholesaler could face "billions of dollars" in penalties for failing to report diversion of prescription opioid pain medications shipped to pharmacies across the U.S.

WEKU

US judge denies diplomatic immunity for Maduro ally Alex Saab

Saab, a close ally of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, claims he was on a diplomatic mission to Iran when arrested.

Al Jazeera

Group urges feds to investigate Snapchat over fentanyl sales

As the U.S. deals with its deadliest overdose crisis to date, a national crime-prevention group is calling on the Justice Department to clamp down on social media’s role in the spread of fentanyl, the drug largely driving a troubling spike in overdose deaths among teenagers

The Independent UK

LA feds seize enough fentanyl doses to kill everyone in 7 California counties

LOS ANGELES — Federal drug agents in Los Angeles have seized 38 million deadly doses of fentanyl this year — enough to kill every resident in L.A., Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, officials estimated.

Los Angeles Times

Tributes pour in for pregnant woman who was stabbed to death in Northern Ireland

Natalie McNally was 15 weeks pregnant when she was murdered at her home in Armagh

Irish Mirror

Enough fentanyl was seized in the US this year by drug cops to kill EVERY American

More than 397 million fatal fentanyl doses have been intercepted this year with just two milligrams enough to be deadly, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration

Daily Mirror

Enough fentanyl to kill every American was seized this year, DEA says

DEA says it seized more than 379 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl in 2022

The Independent UK

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Al Jazeera

Released Russian arms dealer Bout joins ultranationalist party

Viktor Bout was freed last week from a 25-year US prison sentence in swap for basketball star Brittney Griner.

Reason

It's Far Past Time To Decriminalize Fentanyl Test Strips

Plus: Lawmakers "demanding action" against slurs on Twitter, FTC sues to stop Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard, and more...

Al Jazeera

Griner-Bout prisoner swap: A sign of easing US-Russia tensions?

The high-profile exchange was a rare moment of agreement between two nations locked in conflict over Ukraine.

Salon

Corruption case fell apart under Barr

DOJ dropped charges against official linked to drug trafficking after Trump attorney general's intervention

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Dublin Live

Mob boss Daniel Kinahan reeling after mafioso pal turns State witness

Raffaele Imperiale, a notorious member of the infamous Camorra, who was at Kinahan’s 2017 wedding in Dubai, is now telling the authorities all he knows

Reason

A Law That Facilitates Cannabis Research Exemplifies the Modesty of the Reforms We Can Expect From Congress

Making it easier for scientists to study marijuana is a far cry from the liberalization that most Americans want.

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: The end of ‘harmless’ recreational drug experimentation

This is shocking: Poisoning by illicit fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for adults aged 18 to 45 in the U.S., says the federal government, surpassing suicide, gun violence and car accidents.

Reason

After a Crackdown on a Pain Clinic, a Tragic Double Suicide

After losing access to opioids, many patients can’t live with constant pain.

The Independent UK

Couple dies by suicide after DEA shuts down office of their chronic pain doctor in fentanyl panic

Authorities have struggled to combat drug abuse while protecting pain patients who need opioids to manage their conditions

Tribune News Service

Fentanyl in high school: A Texas community grapples with the reach of the deadly opioid

KYLE, Texas — The hallways of Lehman High School looked like any other on a recent fall day. Its 2,100 students talked and laughed as they hurried to their next classes, moving past walls covered with flyers that advertised homecoming events, clubs and football games. Next to those flyers, though,…

Los Angeles Times

Growing fentanyl crisis is leaving 'trail of death' in its wake, federal officials warn

LOS ANGELES — In the last two months, agents with Homeland Security Investigations have seized as much fentanyl as they did in all of 2019, federal officials said, warning that the amount of the drug hitting the streets is increasing every year with deadly consequences.

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