As the American opioid crisis reaches near epidemic levels, law enforcement agencies across the country are training their officers how to use Narcan to revive people who have overdosed. The LA County Sheriff’s Department has deployed over 600 deputies with Narcan and is changing the way law enforcement approaches the opioid crisis. China Nov 8, 2017
A Queens man and a New Jersey woman have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to distribute dangerous designer drugs, including a synthetic opioid several times more potent than morphine that has been blamed for at least one overdose death, authorities said Tuesday. NBC Jan 9, 2017
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday it will not call for reclassifying marijuana, NBC News reports. In a notice for the Federal Register, the DEA proposed to leave marijuana in the most restrictive federal category: Schedule I, which also includes heroin, LSD, and ecstasy. But the agency said it wo