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 zohydro. But many are now asking is it
Do you think you can give the solutions you want . Dr. Crystal dilworth is a neuroscientist. Fracking and waste water. It is money for some oily thatsity dirty. Im phil torres, im an entomologist. Dispatches from outer space. Chocolate pudding cake. Out of this world. My one 01. Bigger ball of water. With the youtube astronauts. Thats our team. Lets do some science. So what is this . Hey guys welcome to techknow. Im phil torres. Joined by dr. Crystal dilworth and marita davison. Fraking. Its done fracking. Doesnt come without controversy, potentially doesnt come without cost. Yes, fracking is hugely controversial. Humannics. S that range the gamut from environmental to health. And texas has been kind of at the center point of a lot of this issue. Whether theyre economic environmental, political, texas is in the mix. When we think of texas we think big oil, not earthquakes like were thinking of california. But theyre experiencing seismic activity. So we got to see how one small town in
Temperatures of the season, the wind chill makes it feel like 50 below zero in some places. An icy attraction bringing people straight to china. We will tell you about a Winter Wonderland that really comes to life when the sun goes town. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im morgan radford. 20 months after the Boston Marathon bombing attacks, jury selection begins today in the federal trial of suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev. He could be put to death if found guilty. The bombings left three dead and hundreds injured, he is also accused of killing an m. I. T. Officer. The defense said they havent been given enough time. What can we expect this morning in boston, john . A long, drawnout process is what you can expect. There is a lot of work to do even before we get around to opening arguments. We can take you straight to the courthouse in boston. The judge defense and prosecution have their work cut out. They have to sift through a pool of more than 1200 names as they
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
On sony. Will it much of a sdns. Im in for ali velshi, and this is real money. Changing fortunes make out winners and losers in the Global Economy. For the First Time Since the recession, the United States is poised to be the engine of global growth, not china, not emerging markets. The u. S. Economy is expected to grow 3. 1 this year, the labor market is picking up steam, and weve seen a small but significant uptick in u. S. Wages. Meanwhile, chinas spectacular growth story is not such a page turner anymore with many expecting the economy to grow roughly 7 this year. Thats still a lot higher than the u. S. , and its a far cry from the doubledigit growth china has seen in recent years. The european union, well, its just plain stagnating. 1. 8 Economic Growth is forecast for the eu this year. In response the European Central bank chief said today hes ready to spend loads of cash to stimulate eu economies. That sent the dollar soaring against the euro to the highest level in five years,