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US Charges 412 People For Health Fraud, Opioid Scams
US authorities announced charges Thursday against more than 400 people, many of them doctors and nurses, over health...
Opioid Maker Fined $35mn Over Shipments That Fed Addiction Crisis
Drug manufacturer Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals was fined $35 million Tuesday for supplying and not reporting suspicious...
An Addict Who ‘lived’ On Drugs For 19 Years
“I was at home taking my last straw of drugs when they came and arrested me”, he said, recounting the last bit of...
US Drug Overdose Deaths Soar In 2016
US drug overdose deaths surged 19 percent to at least 59,000 last year as deadly manufactured drugs like fentanyl...
Ohio Sues Five Drugmakers Over Role In Opioid Crisis
The US state of Ohio on Wednesday sued five major producers of prescription opioid medications, accusing them of lying...
Fighting the Opioid Scourge In American Coal Country
Ryan Brown grew up playing sports and the cello, shooting games of pool in his basement, surrounded by friends. Two...
US Opioid Crisis At Epidemic Proportions
Many US communities are facing an epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse that is straining resources from police, to...
Ghana Chief Joseph Darkoh Jailed In U.S For Distributing Drug
When Joseph Darkoh skipped town to escape federal heroin distribution charges 20 years ago, Brooklyn federal...
US Communities Crumbling Under An Evolving Addiction Crisis
Of the 2,900 babies born last year in Cabell County, West Virginia, 500 had to be weaned off of opioid dependence. In...
Broken Whiskey Glass Lyrics
Posted in Foreign Lyrics I done drank Codeine from a broken whiskey glass I done popped my pills and I smoked my...
The Danger of Abusing Tramadol For Pain Management
A GNA feature by Godwill Arthur-Mensah, GNA Accra, Jan. 9, GNA - Tramadol hydrochloride is one of the group of...
Tiler Grabbed With 78 Wraps of Heroin
A 33-year-old tiler has been arrested by the Mile 7 District police for allegedly having in his possession 78 wraps of...
How Drug Is ‘killing’ Nigerian Undergraduates
By the time his parents brought him to the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, he had pierced his body with...