There were 163 fatal overdoses from fentanyl and its derivatives in the European Union, Norway and Turkey in 2022. Europe has a higher rate of drug overdose deaths than the U.S., but it has better health care system. Europe's politicians are wary of replicating the U.,S.'s prescription drug epidemic.
At least 14 people died and 50 were infected by the hospital use of contaminated fentanyl in Argentina. Most of the cases were recorded in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires. The laboratories involved in the production of the product were raided and various irregularities were verified.
Sens. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., introduced the Mexico Security Assistance Accountability Act. It would require the State Department to develop a strategy to dismantle the Mexican drug cartels. The bill would also establish mission goals to effectively dismantle cartels and increase the capabilities of Mexico’s law enforcement.
Dr. Ruben Navarrette is an addiction and emergency medicine physician in southern Arizona. He lives less than 100 miles from Mexico and works in a town split in two by the border wall. He is concerned that the Trump administration is planning to cut the funding for programs that prevent overdose deaths in the borderlands and across the country.
Jon Michael Ask was arrested in July 2023 for possessing more than 30,000 fentanyl pills. He was indicted on Feb. 8, 2024, and faced seven counts relating to conspiracy, possession and intent to distribute cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine. Ask pleaded guilty to one count of a lesser offense of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and cocaine in January. He will serve …
Treasury Department sanctions Miguel Angel de Anda Ledezma and Ricardo Gonzalez Sauceda for drug and arms trafficking and violence against U.S. and Mexican authorities. Anne Fundner lost her 15-year-old son, Weston, when a peer gave him a substance containing a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022.
Cancer drugs are becoming an increasingly important part of pharmaceutical companies’ revenue. The cost of cancer drugs is not correlated with clinical benefit, according to a study in The Lancet Oncology. Once the price of a drug goes above $100,000, people can't afford it. Dr. Peter McCullough and his team are investigating the potential of Ivermectin in combating cancer.
Robert F Kennedy Jr presented a report on children's health this week. The report was required by a presidential executive order in February. It focuses on ultra-processed foods, environmental chemical exposure, lack of physical activity, “overmedicalization”, and “capture” of regulatory agencies.