LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield If you were wondering… Hmm, what could the Mexican government do it make perpetuate the sentiment of fear toward immigration worse in the United States, this Mexican official gets an A+. An attorney general from a Mexican state was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego for allegedly…
Steve Birr Hospitals are becoming flooded with cases of newborns addicted to heroin in Ohio, where the opioid epidemic is also causing a sharp spike in the number of children in foster care. Social services in the greater Cincinnati region are sounding the alarm on the damage the opioid epidemic is having on children. Officials…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Police busted a heroin, meth and cocaine distribution operation running out of a residence in Indianapolis, Ind., where a 10-year-old was also living. Authorities initially grew suspicious after multiple overdose calls to the residence in Wayne Township. Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department executed a search warrant…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Police discovered four children living in a home used for cutting up heroin with the often fatal painkiller fentanyl during a drug bust Wednesday in Detroit, Mich. Authorities made the shocking discovery amid a broader investigation by the Michigan State Police Department of a drug ring. A…
California Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman introduced a proposal in the state legislature earlier this week that would set up supervised drug consumption sites for users of heroin, crack, opioids, and other drugs. A committee vote on the measure was delayed, showing the reluctance of Eggman’s colleagues to take such a drastic step to address rising…
What Does this Controversial Practice Mean for Lycoming County? by Kaytee Moyer In one county in Pennsylvania, death is listed as a homicide if one overdoses on heroin. Coroner Charles E. Kiessling, from Lycoming County, Pennsylvania has taken an aggressive stance on an issue that has plagued Pennsylvania for several years. No longer will the coroner list those who…
New research published this week in the journal JAMA Psychiatry discounts the links – often put forward by the federal government to show the “dangers” of cannabis – between marijuana use and anxiety and depression disorders. Researchers looked into the records of those who participated in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions…
Guy Bentley The number of Americans who have died from a drug overdose attributable to opioids soared by 14 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report revealed that between 2000 and 2014 a stunning 500,000 people have died as a result…