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California Bills Would Give Teens Expanded Role in Fentanyl Treatment

Two bills pending in the California Legislature would expand the role of teenagers in treating both themselves and others for addiction and overdoses. They are among more than two dozen fentanyl-related bills introduced this year by legislators in the Senate and Assembly a recognition of the ever-worsening problem that the...

California Bills Would Give Teens Expanded Role in Fentanyl Treatment

Two bills pending in the California Legislature would expand the role of teenagers in treating both themselves and others for addiction and overdoses. They are among more than two dozen fentanyl-related bills introduced this year by legislators in the Senate and Assembly a recognition of the ever-worsening problem that the...

Unlike LA, Schools in Clovis, Fresno Already Have Fentanyl Antidote on Hand

  Los Angeles Unified School District is moving toward stocking naloxone, the antidote to the powerful and sometimes deadly opioid fentanyl, at district schools after the recent overdose deaths of several teens, including one girl on a high school campus, the Associated Press reported Friday. But school districts in Fresno...

For 1st Time in 4 Years, US Life Expectancy Rises — a Little

NEW YORK — Life expectancy in the United States is up for the first time in four years. The increase is small — just a month — but marks at least a temporary halt to a downward trend. The rise is due to lower death rates for cancer and drug...

Jury Finds That Fresno Man Killed Two by Providing Fentanyl

A federal jury has convicted a Fresno man for causing the deaths of two people, including the mother of his children, by providing them with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. In a case attracting nationwide attention, the jury on Friday convicted Darnell Pearson, 41, on two counts of distributing fentanyl resulting...

China Sentences Fentanyl Traffickers After US Tip About Ring

XINGTAI, China — A Chinese court sentenced nine fentanyl traffickers on Thursday in a case that is the culmination of a rare collaboration between Chinese and U.S. law enforcement to crack down on global networks that manufacture and distribute lethal synthetic opioids. Liu Yong was sentenced to death with a...

5 States Announce New Suits Over Prescription Opioids

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Five state attorneys general announced lawsuits Thursday seeking to hold the drug industry responsible for an opioid addiction crisis that has become the biggest cause of accidental deaths across the country and in many states. The new filings in Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, West Virginia and Wisconsin mean...

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