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Up to Six Months in Jail for Vape Use in Bangladesh
The new punishments for personal use remove any doubt that this prohibition has escalated to drug-war levels.
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"Bangladesh has imposed total prohibition of nicotine vapes, pouches and heated tobacco products."
"[P]ersonal possession and use [..] are now punishable by a fine and up to six months in jail."
"[C]ombustible tobacco [..] remains legally available."
#Bangladesh #Drugs #Incarceration
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"Tammy Reed doesn't believe the body described in her son's autopsy is his."
"Pace died after an officer [..] sprayed Pace with a 'fire extinguisher-sized' can of pepper spray."
"I want to know what happened to my son."
#Missouri #USA #Drugs #Healthcare #Incarceration #Suicide
theappeal.org
Secrecy, Inaccurate Records Stymie Families' Search for Truth in Missouri Prison Deaths
Families are asking questions about their loved ones' deaths in custody. The state isn't answering them.
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"In the 39 cases in which the Maryland Attorney General's Office has completed an investigation of police-involved fatalities, the office [..] has brought charges in just two cases — the first of which was dismissed 10 months later."
#Maryland #USA #Drugs #Policing #Healthcare #Courts
baltimorebeat.com
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has cleared cops of wrongdoing in 95% of police-involved death cases his office is responsible for investigating
Anthony Brown's office declined to bring charges against any of the 10 officers who stood around as Dontae Melton died in June 2025.
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"How do you resource a system when you're not even telling the truth about it?"
"Alberta government has been under-counting the ambulances sent to drug poisonings by as much as 89 percent."
#Alberta #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Labour
drugdatadecoded.ca
Paramedics union head: "How do you resource a system when you're not telling the truth about it?"
Mike Parker, the president of the Alberta union that includes paramedics, reacts to reporting by Drug Data Decoded showing the Alberta government under-reports ambulance dispatches to drug toxicity by as much as 89 percent.
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"Health Canada's witness in the Drug User Liberation Front’s judicial review trial frustrated the judge and highlighted how opaque and frustrating Canadian drug policy can be."
"[S]eemed to be 'seeing [evidence] for the first time and guessing.'"
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Courts
thetyee.ca
'Very Little Value': Judge Frustrated by Health Canada at DULF Trial
Justice Catherine Murray said witness Eric Costen appeared to be 'guessing' in his responses on the stand.
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"Family members of Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41 — two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. boat strike on October 14, 2025 — are suing the U.S. government for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing."
"They must be held accountable."
#TrinidadTobago #USA #Courts #Drugs #Water #Military
theintercept.com
Families of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for "Manifestly Unlawful" Killings
A lawsuit aims to hold the Trump administration accountable for killing two Trinidadian men in an airstrike in the Caribbean.
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"[U]nprecedented removal and undocumented alteration."
"During 2025, nearly half (46 percent) of 82 routinely-updated databases managed by the [CDC] experienced delays or total cessations of new data."
"[C]ould lead to [..] delayed responses to disease outbreaks."
#USA #Drugs #Healthcare
www.404media.co
Dozens of CDC Health Databases Have Gone Dark Under Trump: "The Consequences Will Be Dire"
Nearly half of routinely-updated CDC databases have experienced delays or shutdowns in 2025, with vaccination-related systems disproportionately affected, according to a new study.
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"When he entered prison in June, DOCCS staff told Papadopoulos that in order to qualify for early release, he had to complete the two commonly required programs."
"[T]he prison hadn't been offering the programs for seven months."
#NewYork #USA #Education #Drugs #Incarceration
nysfocus.com
The Catch-22 Keeping New Yorkers Stuck in Prison
Nine months after the prison guard strike, incarcerated people are being denied early release after not completing programming that they don't have access to.
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"An anti-imperialist movement is building in Mexico."
"Unions, environmentalists, feminists, sexual diversity activists, students, movements for housing rights, and anti-racists chanted 'Yankees out of Latin America.'"
#Mexico #USA #Venezuela #Labour #Protest #Drugs #Military #Weapons
truthout.org
Resisting the Empire Next Door, Protests in Mexico Grow
After US intervention in Venezuela, Trump's threats against cartels may be seen as paving the way for actions in Mexico.
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"A South Dakota legislative committee has rejected a bill that would have allowed terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis in hospitals and hospices."
"[S]imply removes the unnecessary barrier to provide comfort for people who are already dying."
#SouthDakota #USA #Voting #Drugs #Healthcare
filtermag.org
South Dakota Lawmakers Reject Bill to Let Dying People Use Medical Marijuana in Hospitals
Medical cannabis is an excellent option for relieving pain and suffering in those who are terminally ill, but most importantly it serves to provide compassion, support, and dignity to patients and their families, during their loved-ones' final days.
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"The most sensible course of action would be to legalize cocaine and create regulated industries."
"But legalization would rob the U.S. of a useful means to subject the continent — and the world at large — to its deranged imperial will."
#USA #Venezuela #Media #Drugs #FossilFuels
theintercept.com
It Always Comes Back to Our Failed War on Drugs
Trotting out rhetoric about drug trafficking was a helpful pretext to remove Maduro in Venezuela — when oil was the real goal.
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"[F]irst legislative gesture toward addressing the crisis of colorimetric testing."
"The notoriously false positive-prone tests lead to an estimated 30,000 people wrongfully arrested each year."
Colorado's "false-positive rate was about 33 percent."
#Colorado #USA #Drugs #Policing #Courts
filtermag.org
CO Renews Most of Its Historic Push to Reduce Harms of Faulty Drug Tests
In June 2025, Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) signed a bill that established a working group focused on the impact of colorimetric drug tests, the rapid-result field kits that law enforcement and corrections officers across the country use to check unknown substances for the presence of drugs.
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"[M]ost ambulance dispatches for drug toxicity are concealed in" Alberta.
"89% of EMS dispatches for drug toxicity in Calgary were not reported."
"[C]risis of emergency rooms running over capacity is likely being aggravated by inaccurate data."
#Alberta #Canada #Healthcare #Drugs #Transportation
drugdatadecoded.ca
Up to 89 percent of ambulances for overdoses concealed in record year, as Alberta health care careens into crisis
The Alberta government says it has “the most transparent data reporting system in North America" for drug toxicity. In reality, internal data manipulation causes most emergency calls to go unreported.
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Chicago "City Council approved a hotly contested ban on intoxicating hemp Wednesday, putting pressure on Mayor Brandon Johnson as he weighs a veto."
"[B]an will take effect April 1."
"[F]ace thousands of dollars in fines and city inspectors seizing their products."
#Illinois #USA #Drugs #Voting
blockclubchicago.org
City Council Passes Ban On Intoxicating Hemp Products — Except THC Drinks — As Mayor Weighs Veto
The ban would force businesses to take intoxicating hemp products like edibles, flower and vapes off shelves by April 1, but it makes exemptions for THC drinks and CBD creams.
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"[S]even minutes late. The nurse at the clinic refused to dispense my methadone dose."
"This, she told me, would 'teach me to be on time.'"
"[S]treet supply has become so dangerous that a single missed dose can prove fatal."
#USA #Drugs #Healthcare
filtermag.org
The Lessons of My Near-Death Experience With Medetomidine
A misguided nurse coinciding with the arrival of medetomidine in the drug supply nearly proved fatal for me.
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"Parkdale's safe consumption site could have stayed open for at least another year after being defunded by" Ontario.
"Carney's federal government prevented that from happening."
"One person has since died of a preventable overdose."
#Ontario #Canada #Media #Drugs #Healthcare #Policing
www.thegrindmag.ca
Carney Government Prevented Parkdale SCS from Staying Open
After being defunded by Doug Ford's government, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre scrambled to find an alternative model that would allow its safe consumption site (SCS) to continue operating. The feds stood in the way.
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"[N]eed to bolster mutual aid networks, ramp up grassroots organizing, and adapt to create a harm reduction infrastructure that allows services to seamlessly transition underground if necessary."
"The movement must become louder. It must become larger."
#Maryland #USA #MutualAid #Drugs
mobtownredux.news
Hysteria and harm reduction: What the hell is going on?
The harm reduction movement was founded upon boots-on-the-ground organizing, and it must remain organized to serve drug users during these difficult times.
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"Maryland Department of Health has scrubbed any mention of 'harm reduction' from the state's leading grant program for organizations that provide care to people who use drugs."
"[L]ocal harm reduction initiatives [..] could be pushed further underground."
#Maryland #USA #Drugs #Healthcare
filtermag.org
Maryland Scrubs the Term "Harm Reduction" From Key Grant Program
It hurts people, and more people will die with the system as it's been redefined.
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"Less than 24 hours after terminating [..] nearly $2 billion in funding for public health and social services programs, including many harm reduction programs, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has reinstated them."
#USA #Drugs #Healthcare
filtermag.org
SAMHSA Restores Thousands of Active Grants, a Day After It Cut Them
The services targeted include naloxone distribution, access to medication for opioid use disorder and treatment for pregnant and postpartum SUD patients, among others.
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Alberta government's overdose "app triggered EMS dispatch just fifty times in four years."
"In comparison, supervised consumption sites in Alberta have registered more than 40,000 adverse events."
#Alberta #Canada #Drugs #Healthcare #Surveillance #Technology
drugdatadecoded.ca
Overdose app falters as Alberta government accelerates war on supervised consumption
Launched to government fanfare on sole-source contracts, the Digital Overdose Response System app is barely used most days and has registered just 51 ambulance dispatches over four years –– around 0.14 percent of the ministry's under-reported dispatches for opioid toxicity in that period.
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"[R]uined my life."
"A drug test doesn't tell you if a person has a substance use disorder, if they are in recovery, or whether a child is safe."
State agencies "are effectively saying, [..] 'it would bankrupt us to have to confirm all of these.'"
#Michigan #USA #Drugs #Healthcare #Courts
www.propublica.org
Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative.
Child welfare systems' thresholds for positives vary widely. One state's level is so low, an Air Force pilot can fly with up to 400 times more opiates in their system.
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"Tasers, virtual reality headsets, and a baby shower."
"[S]ome of the ways New York counties spent their share of opioid settlement dollars."
"[N]othing to do with serving the people who are impacted." "[B]olstering the police department."
#NewYork #USA #Drugs #Healthcare #Policing #Weapons
nysfocus.com
New York Counties Have Received Millions From Opioid Lawsuits, But Many Won't Say How They've Spent It
Drug policy advocates are calling a new reporting mandate a missed opportunity for needed transparency and sustained action.
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"Presenting the cliff honey as just a psychoactive drug to get high is not only misleading marketing, but also at some level disrespectful to the Indigenous community, who have used it for centuries for many other purposes too."
#Nepal #USA #Media #Drugs #Food #Healthcare #Military
www.thexylom.com
'Podcast Bros' Are Embracing the Other 'Maha' Madness
In recent years, mad honey, a sacred yet psychedelic gift among Himalayan tribes, has been appropriated by "podcast bros", creating health and ecological complications.
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"My son died because I believed in systems that were never designed to protect him."
"[C]ritical difference between deliberate mass poisoning and the predictable mass death created by prohibition, an unregulated supply, untreated pain and systemic neglect."
#USA #Drugs #Healthcare #Military
filtermag.org
Fentanyl, Involved in My Son's Death, Is No "Weapon of Mass Destruction"
Calling fentanyl a "weapon of mass destruction" may sound powerful, but it risks misleading grieving families into believing that military action is an answer, when in fact it is liable to result in more preventable deaths.
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