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During a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Tuesday, Democrats argued that the Sackler family the former owners of Purdue Pharma and the makers of OxyContin will likely escape legal liability for helping to fuel the opioid epidemic unless a loophole in bankruptcy law is closed.
Republicans have countered that there are better ways to curb substance use and overdoses. Usually when you kill someone, you go to jail, said Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.). And the Sackler family, according to documents Maloney said she s read, killed almost half a million people.
The key to curb addictions and overcome the opioid crisis is to provide addicts with a recovery-oriented system of care instead of supplying them with drugs, according to Alberta’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions.
The fentanyl crisis at the Texas/Mexico border continues as just this year an 800% increase in seizures occurred in the first four months of 2021 than the last four years combined.
June 4, 2021
Two Santa Rosa men have been arrested on suspicion of drugs and firearms trafficking.
Santa Rosa Police detained Christian Alex Cortes-Torres and Daniel Cortes-Torres during a traffic stop on Tuesday when officers located suspected cocaine, pressed pills of fentanyl and approximately $2,500 in cash. A short while later, a search warrant was executed at their home on Apple Valley Lane. There officers found several firearms including an illegally modified AR-15 along with 2 ½ ounces of suspected methamphetamine, one ounce of psilocybin mushrooms, hundreds of pressed fentanyl pills, and approximately $2,000 more in cash. The arrests are connected to a months long investigation into a narcotics and firearm trafficking operation within Santa Rosa.