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Many gangs started appearing in Georgia in the mid 1980s, as a result of the crack cocaine epidemic. [1] In 2003, there were an estimated 78 gangs in the Atlanta area alone. In 2015, Atlanta police announced that they were tracking an estimated 192 gangs. [2] In more recent times, Mexican drug cartels have established Atlanta as a major ...
1911 - 1990s According to the FDA's Timeline of Selected FDA Activities and Significant Events Addressing Opioid Misuse and Abuse, before the 1990s, most opioid pain medications were used to manage pain that was either acute or related to cancer. The FDA said that there was an increase in the use of opioids because physicians were not treating ...
The Georgia Department of Corrections operates prisons, transitional centers, probation detention centers, and substance use disorder treatment facilities. In addition, state inmates are also housed at private and county correctional facilities.
The 15-year-old, from Columbus, is one of the first pediatric patients in the world to get an infusion of a groundbreaking drug called TZEILD. The recently FDA approved drug will help people like ...
Over a hundred of the 224 drugs mentioned in the Huangdi Neijing – an early Chinese medical text – are herbs. Herbs also commonly featured in the medicine of ancient India, where the principal treatment for diseases was diet. A sample of raw opium. Opioids are among the world's oldest known drugs.
A U.S. judge on Tuesday allowed the state of Georgia to resume enforcing a new Republican-backed ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender people under age 18, after a federal appeals ...
A brand of mushroom-infused chocolates and sweets has been recalled after dozens of consumers across the country became sick and some were hospitalized.
Cause of death was a combination of pneumonia, an iron deficiency and combined drug intoxication of legal drugs for influenza treatment Brent Mydland: 1952 1990 37 Musician Cocaine and morphine Unknown Valerie Grosvenor Myer: 1935 2007 72 Writer Sleeping pills Suicide Yves Navarre: 1940 1994 53 Writer Barbiturates Suicide Scott Newman