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Baltimore is a city filled with rich culture, history and innovation. The city was the birthplace of “The Star-Spangled ...

First, as The New York Times warned on the front page in 1971, there was a “G.I. heroin addiction epidemic” in Vietnam. The drug’s use was also on the rise in places like New York ...

The county is firmly in the grip of a major drug epidemic, with people of all ages turning to various forms of narcotics, despite the Police remaining committed to cracking down on the drugs trade.

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Seattle has a similar system and now Oregon is trying it after recriminalizing low-level possession last year in a new attempt to tackle the drug epidemic. In Clatsop County, one of 28 counties ...

In September, Akeso, a little-known Chinese biotech company founded nearly a decade ago shook up the biotech sector with its new lung cancer drug. Ivonescimab, the new drug, was found in a trial ...

Spokane Police Chief Kevin Hall, who has more than 30 years working in law enforcement, testified firsthand on his experience with the drug epidemic in Eastern Washington – in what he calls the ...