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By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Overdose deaths in the United States tied to the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl soared 279% from 2016 to 2021, health officials reported Wednesday. With the nation reeling from continued drug overdose deaths, investigators sought to identify trends in drug-related fatalities involving the five …
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Getty Image While some members of the GOP might talk a big game about moving away from Donald Trump and embracing potential presidential candidates like Ron DeSantis, make no mistake: Trump is still the leader of the Republican Party. Case in point, the former president has routinely floated the idea of bombing Mexico, and he’s …
Every few months, a phrase pops out of the internet ether and into the real world, lodging itself in your psyche and existing on repeat in your head forever. Move over, “30-50 feral hogs,” the current nonsense gold standard, because we now have “publicly hanging, say, 5 fentanyl dealers.” That phrase and hypothetical comes courtesy …
Rapper Coolio died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl and other drugs, according to new information from coroner’s officials. Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., collapsed at a friend’s house in Los Angeles and was pronounced dead at the scene on Sept. 28, 2022. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner has ruled …
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Getty Image West Coast rap legend Coolio’s death in September 2022 shocked the music world. Today, TMZ reports that investigators have determined the cause of his death: A fentanyl overdose. Coolio was found dead at a friend’s house in Los Angeles in September; paramedics initially suspected a heart attack, and law enforcement officials say they …
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Feb. 15, 2023 — In December, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did an about-face on an issue that has been a flash point in the debate over decriminalization of drug paraphernalia: the use of test strips that can detect fentanyl, the synthetic opioid. Abbott had previously opposed legislation legalizing the test strips, but he cited a …
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By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Nov. 17, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Researchers report they have created a vaccine to fight fentanyl addiction, in a potential breakthrough in the opioid epidemic. The shot would block the ability of fentanyl to enter the brain and cause the “high” that users crave. It could be used to …
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The Joe Rogan Experience Joe Rogan continued to prove that there isn’t a widely debunked hoax he won’t fall for every time. On this particular occassion, he joined forces with Dr. Phil to spread hysteria over reports of rainbow colored fentanyl being confused for Halloween candy. For the record, these reports were debunked back in …
By Sydney Murphy HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is warning the public that colorfully dyed fentanyl — dubbed “rainbow fentanyl” — is readily available across the United States. “Rainbow fentanyl — fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, …
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ASAP Yams Foundation Steven “A$AP Yams” Rodriguez was a powerful element in the rise of the A$AP Mob. His music helped usher in a new wave of East Coast rap that took the planet by storm. To get a sense of his lasting impact at the time of this article, his single “Yamborghini High feat …
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Feb. 8, 2022 Mexico has replaced China as the “dominant source” of fentanyl and synthetic opioids entering the United States, a new government report says. From 2014 until 2019, most pure fentanyl that U.S. authorities seized came from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), said the report from the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking. …
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Getty Image More than three years after Mac Miller’s tragic death, all three of his accused drug dealers have reached plea agreements for fentanyl distribution in connection to the rapper’s death. The last of the trio, Ryan Reavis, who is a 38-year-old resident of Lake Havasu, Arizona, agreed to plead guilty to the charge, according …
