Ohio troopers report sharp rise in heroin seizures
Ohio troopers seized more than 53 kilograms of heroin from January through June 2016 nearly seven times the amount a year earlier. A late June bust along I 76 near Akron yielded 6 kilos of heroin and a half pound of cocaine. The surge accompanies new measures like an Opiate Crisis Task Force in Franklin County and a state panel studying drug education. Community voices urge coordinated action beyond arrests.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Highway Patrol
Akron
Canton
California
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Cincinnati
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Ontario
Canada
Franklin County
Anahi Ortiz
Ortiz
Rick Minerd
Sheriff’s Office
Anamaria Perales-Lang
Marengo
Betsy Davis Hosts Final Weekend Before Death By Own Action
Betsy Davis, 41, an ALS patient in Ojai California, held a two day rebirth party July 23 24 inviting friends and relatives to celebrate a planned death by doctor assisted self administration. The gathering featured music art and a set schedule culminating in Davis taking morphine pentobarbital and chloral hydrate to end her life four hours later.
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San Diego
Betsy Davis
Niels Alpert
New York City
Davis
California
Ojai
New York
Chicago
Kelly Davis
Voice of San Diego
Oregon
State
Legisla
Tors
Marilyn Golden
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
Betsy
Alpert
Lika vaccine begins human trial amid funding stalemate
NIH scientists enroll 80 healthy adults in the first phase of a DNA based Zika vaccine trial. Fauci warns of time pressure as Congress blocks a 1.9 billion emergency package, reallocating 81 million from other programs to support vaccine research and prevention. Florida reports 25 locally transmitted Zika cases with airborne and travel related infections across several counties.
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Washington
Anthony Fauci
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Congress
Fauci
Vaccine Research Center
Institute
National Institutes of Health
Barack Obama
NIH
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Health and Human Services
Sylvia Burwell
United States
Puerto Rico
U.S
Suffolk University
Boston
Florida
Florida Health Department
Miami-Dade County
Broward County
Hernando County
Miami-Dade
Seminole
New York