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Federal laws are broken daily, by this US President, , as he uses executive orders to enact "policies" that are contrary to existing law. Many of these laws were originally enacted to protect the sanctity of US borders, and the safety of US citizens.
The Department of Justice announced on June 22 that it made 301 arrests in what's being called the biggest healthcare fraud takedown in U.S. history. The Medicare Fraud Strike Force - part of a joint initiative between the DOJ and the Health and Human Services Department - busted doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals for allegedly running scams that bilked the government out of $900 million.
Progressivism is always criticized for being wrong in many ways but there is one element to it that is often missed. It deserves criticism but it also is something that actually explains why it is adopted by so many.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave voice to what hundreds of thousands of people of color have experienced when being stopped and harassed by police. Earlier today, the Supreme Court made a terrible decision to allow evidence obtained by police who've made an unlawful stop be considered in an arrest resulting from that stop.
Libertarian presidential hopeful Gary Johnson is sticking up for marijuana after 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney last week said smoking the drug "makes people stupid." "I do not agree with that," Johnson told CNN's Erin Burnett in an interview scheduled to air Sunday on "OutFront."
Most of us are familiar with the prescription medicine take-back program offered by Snohomish County law enforcement agencies, which allows residents to drop off unused prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications for safe and proper disposal at local police stations. And most of us still have a bottle or more of an unused or expired medication in our medicine cabinets.
"I received a call that people were pouring into the emergency room dead on arrival after taking counterfeit Norco laced with fentanyl," Sacramento County Public Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye told health professionals gathered at the Prescription Drug Awareness Conference held at Sacramento State University on May 20. Trying desperately to prevent additional deaths, Kasirye says she went into overdrive to get the word out about this dangerous batch of fake Norco. Norco is a prescription painkiller, but this batch contained fentanyl, a powerful painkiller hundreds of times stronger than heroin.
Someone should be collecting all the big talk we have heard from elected officials and pundits about the ground-breaking criminal justice reforms that are purportedly soon to happen in Congress . As noted in this prior post , at least one notable commentatory was saying in summer 2013 that "momentum for sentencing reform could be unstoppable."
File photo/The Clarion-Ledger -- Used for medicinal research, marijuana plants grow in a facility on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford. File photo/The Clarion-Ledger -- Marijuana plants are raised in the grow room at the University of Mississippi for research purposes.
President Barack Obama on Friday commuted the sentences of more than 40 drug offenders as his administration continues its effort to lessen the punishments of non-violent criminals. Most of the 42 federal prisoners had been convicted for cocaine-related offenses, including distribution and trafficking.
In Pennsylvania, legislation tends to follow a circuitous path toward becoming a law. It can involve any number of constituent groups and lobbyists over a span of many years.
Though the 10th Judicial District Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force tracks many types of illicit drugs trafficked in the area, one type of drug keeps showing up with more and more frequency. BILLa SCHERRY, director of the 10th Judicial District Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force, speaks to the Bradley Sunrise Rotary Club about drug abuse trends.
Legislators can do more to curb the national heroin epidemic by earmarking federal dollars for treatment beds and resources for police and state agencies, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy , D-Conn, and U.S. Rep. Jim Himes , D-4, said Tuesday. The legislators met with community leaders from across the region to drum up support for emergency federal funding that would help Connecticut towns battling an alarming rise in overdoses and deaths caused by heroin and prescription opioid abuse.
The probe by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found the VA inspector general discounted key evidence and left veterans in harm's way at a VA facility in Wisconsin. Senate investigation finds 'systemic' failures at VA watchdog The probe by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found the VA inspector general discounted key evidence and left veterans in harm's way at a VA facility in Wisconsin.
The White House forum on the opioid epidemic to be held in Albany will take place at 2:45 p.m. Thursday at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on New Scotland Avenue. U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko will host the forum at which best practices for addressing abuse of heroin and prescription narcotics are expected to be shared.
On Tuesday, two men - including the former producer for the forthcoming HBO drama series The Deuce - were arrested on drug charges related to the mysterious death of Kiersten Cerveny , a married Long Island doctor who died in the doorway of a Manhattan apartment building last October, PEOPLE confirms. According to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice obtained by PEOPLE, HBO producer Marc Henry Johnson, 51, and James Holder, 60, both face federal drug and conspiracy charges related to Cerveny's death.
In April, the US Drug Enforcement Administration said that it would review marijuana's classification as a Schedule I drug, considered the "most dangerous class" of substances. While the DEA's announcement is a positive sign, many drug-policy experts think that it's unlikely the agency will actually decide to change marijuana's classification, despite a dramatic shift in public sentiment about the drug.