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Lean drink, also referred to as “sizzurp” and “purple drank,” is a prescription-strength cough syrup that contains the drugs codeine and promethazine.1 Lean is most often used in liquid form and is commonly mixed with sodas such as Sprite or hard candy to improve the flavor.1 The mixture of prescription cough syrup and soda often …
What Are Sleeping Disorders? Sleep disorders are abnormal or unhealthy patterns of sleeping and waking that result in insufficient or poor quality sleep. The most common varieties of sleeping disorders are: Insomnia: difficulty falling or staying asleep; waking frequently or too early; not feeling refreshed by sleep. Insomnia causes excessive daytime drowsiness and tiredness, is …
Fentanyl is still king of killers when it comes to drug overdoses in the United States, but another drug is combined with it in 70 percent of deadly overdoses. U.S. federal data show that overdose deaths caused by fentanyl have almost doubled every year from 2013 to 2016 and that fentanyl combined – knowingly or …
The State of Florida has confirmed its intention to sue the pharmacy chains Walgreens and CVS over the dispensing of opioids. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, says that the two pharmacy chains have been added to a lawsuit against the dispensing of unreasonable quantities of opioids and the failure to stop suspicious orders of …
An American citizen resident in Tijuana pleaded guilty to attempting to sneak more than 20,000 fentanyl tablets into the United States. Fernando Jesus Peraza, age 39, had been arrested on Aug. 8 at the San Ysidro border checkpoint from Tijuana into California when customs officers detected something unusual about his vehicle, an Audi TT Quattro. …
Overdoses from both fentanyl and misused prescription drugs are continuing to rise in San Diego. As in many parts of the United States, a decrease in doctors’ prescriptions for powerful opioid painkillers has been offset by a boost in the easy availability of much more potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Fentanyl can be 50 or …
A man in custody for the last two years over opioid drug smuggling and distribution charges in Utah now faces another charge related to the overdose death of someone who took his pills. Aaron Michael Shamo, 28, already faces life in prison over charges he ran a complex drug importation and redistribution ring in Salt …
Five doctors in the New York City area face federal charges of writing illegal opioid prescriptions that put millions of pain pills on the streets and resulted in several deaths. United States prosecutors in Manhattan said the doctors’ prescriptions made 8.5 million tablets of oxycodone available for drug abuse. One doctor alone wrote prescriptions for …
A Southern California drug bust that came at the end of a year-long investigation resulted in 13 arrests and the confiscation of $10 million in heroin, cocaine, meth, and other drugs. Police said they think they captured the leader of the smuggling ring, a San Fernando Valley man named Omar Rangel, age 29. Narcotics being …
A doctor in South Florida who consistently overprescribed pain pills was sentenced to 157 years in prison on Tuesday. The disgraced doctor, Barry Schultz, who gave up his medical license two years ago, had already been given a 25-year sentence for 55 counts of trafficking drugs, which he was convicted for in January. He’d given …
In a sign of how prevalent prescription opioids became during the heights of the ongoing overdose epidemic, a new analysis of state data shows that as many as a quarter of adults who sought treatment for sprained ankles were prescribed opioids at the emergency room. Researchers looked at data from insurance claims covering the years …
More than 600 people have been charged by federal authorities for health care fraud related to drug prescriptions and payments. The charges come as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s increased efforts to fight the ongoing opioid epidemic that kills tens of thousands of people a year. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called this …
