Seventeen thousand americans every year. Thats one overdose death every thirty minutes. The overdose rate, which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department, is now more like 3 or 4 or 5, if not more than that, in a 24hour period. Thats a massive increase. Massive. Over the past 10 years, weve had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller Overdose Deaths. The food and Drug Administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro over the objections of its own medical advisors, and dozens of lawmakers. I thought we had learned our lesson with oxycontin. How can you say with any degree of confidence that zohydro wont be abused . Youre going to have people die. This week, fault lines looks at the battle over the most popular drugs in america opioid painkillers. There is big controversy tonight involving a new narcotic painkiller. The drug about to hit the market is called zohydro. But many are now asking is it even needed, and did th
Overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. Thats one overdose death every thirty minutes. The overdose rate, which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department, is now more like 3 or 4 or 5, if not more than that, in a 24hour period. Thats a massive increase. Massive. Over the past 10 years, weve had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller Overdose Deaths. The food and Drug Administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro over the objections of its own medical advisors, and dozens of lawmakers. I thought we had learned our lesson with oxycontin. How can you say with any degree of confidence that zohydro wont be abused . Youre going to have people die. This week, fault lines looks at the battle over the most popular drugs in america opioid painkillers. There is big controversy tonight involving a new narcotic painkiller. The drug about to hit the market is called zohyd
Targeting them could call a crime, is very simple, they tell the stories powerful people dont want told. Three al jazerra journal i haves, were arrested tried and sen tested to long prison terms for trying to cover the banned Political Party that only a few months earlier in 2013, had been running egypt. Today on the oneyear anniversary of their arrest. We are devoting this edition of inside story to the continued imprisonment of the peter getter Mohamed Fahmy and Bahar Mohamed and to say once again to the audience in the United States and around the world journalist is not a crime. Buzzing newsrooms came to a standstill monday marking one year since al jazerra journalists peter greste, Mohamed Fahmy and bahar me hommie he had were detained odd terrorism charges in egypt. Al jazerra condemns the sentencing arguing it is a journalists job to get all sides of the store and its channel is objective when reporting on the political positions of its fundser qatar. Al jazerra is a immediate i
Return home, but there were hampered efforts to recover the wreck. [music] and asia welcomes in the new year with fireworks from hong kong and pyongyang. Hello palestinian president Mahmood Abbas signed a treaty to join the International Criminal court. More than 20 International Treaties he has signed. It will allow the prosecution of israeli officials and their actions in the palestinian territories. They territories. Territoryies. It follows the rejection of the palestinian resolution calling for an end of the Israeli Occupation of its territoryies by 2017. The veto yesterday is not the first veto. It wont be the last veto. But we have our rights. Rights are not to be given. Rights are to be taken. And we have to work hard to get and take our rights. Despite the u. N. Set back on tuesday president Mahmood Abbas has been celebrating. A procession was held to mark the 50th anniversary of fatah being established. Were live from ramallah. Tell us more about the signing of the treaty. We
Gambling keeping franchises out of vegas. But one thing that bigtime sports hate, and i mean hate, a big pile of money that it cant get its hands into. Its game, its raw material its product, really, and yet does not pay those teams a penny. The new nba commissioner adam silver has had enough. Hes opening the door a crack to green lighting betting on sports, and this time his league would get a cut. The end of a dirty little secret or the beginning of real headaches. There was terrific action. King james, lebron back with his home state Cleveland Cavaliers dropped 32 points. I would like to show you the highlights of this or any other game but i cant because to use any video from the nba i would have to license it at great expense from the league. The nba is rolling in money, according to forbes. The average team is worth 634 million , up 25 from 2013. The league just inked new tv deals with turner and espn. The average annual pay out for tv writes is 2. 6 million. As think compete wit