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 care scams ...
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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 massive orders of its highly ...
Opium and Bananas Banned For Hong Kong Military Parade
Opium, umbrellas and fruit were all banned for reporters covering Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to a military parade Friday, ...
Myanmar and Thailand Torch $1 Billion of Seized Drugs
Myanmar and Thailand started torching nearly $1 billion worth of seized narcotics on Monday, a defiant show of force as ...
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 ...
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 about ...
In Swedish Asylum Limbo, Young Afghans Turn To Heroin
Beer cans, newspapers drenched in vomit and aluminium foil litters the ground inside a parking garage where young Afghan asylum ...
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 jails, ...
US Embassy In Kabul Fires Six Over Drugs
The dismissal of six employees from the US embassy in Kabul for using or possessing drugs is an embarrassment 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 prosecutors said he went ...
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 ...
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 ...