Ketamine, a powerful sedative, is used in hospitals as an anesthetic, and more recently, to treat depression. City investigators in Minneapolis have found that their police officers directed paramedics to inject the drug into people on the street to subdue them dozens of times over...
In an apparent demotion, Ali Watkins, the New York Times federal law enforcement reporter whose email and phone records were secretly seized by the Trump administration, will be transferred out of the newspaper’s Washington, D.C., bureau and reassigned in New York City, The Times said....
Immigrants separated from their children after being arrested for illegally entering the U.S. at the Mexican border are being asked to choose between being deported alone or with their children, the Wall Street Journal reports. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started giving parents who have...
Methamphetamine, a drug that lawmakers fought with success in the 2000s, is back — and it’s more popular, plentiful and lethal than ever, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. While the opioid crisis takes the spotlight, prosecutors and police have been coming to grips with the devastating...
A new team decked out in purple shirts hit the streets of Baltimore this week in pursuit of some of the most troubled and potentially dangerous young men in the city. The outreach workers are knocking on doors, but not to investigate or arrest the...
Primary care physicians should be able to prescribe opioid addiction treatment with buprenorphine, according to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Authored by medical doctors Sarah Wakeman and Michael Barnett, the report highlights the importance of normalizing buprenorphine as an office-based...