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Heroin is Schedule 1 on the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act. [6] Heroin is illegal to possess under California Health and Safety Code 11350. Possession under HS 11350 can be prosecuted as a misdemeanor or felony with up to 3 years in prison. Possession for sale is illegal under Health and Safety Code 11351.
Fentanyl is responsible for the death of 20% of teens and young adults in California (15 - 24). According to California Health Policy Strategies statistics, drug overdoses are now two to three times more fatal than state car accidents. The number of California state fatalities linked to synthetic opioids has climbed by 1,027% since 2017. [3]
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For certain specialty drugs (most injectables and biologic agents), drug coupons have been found to save patients as much as $6 of every $10 they are asked to pay out-of-pocket. [110] According to a 2017 study, for statin drugs, coupon users had higher drug utilization rates and lower rates of discontinuation than for non coupon users.
Shutting prisons to outsiders during COVID-19 didn’t slow the flow of drugs into California correctional facilities.
A homeless man injects Narcan nasal spray into the nose of a drug user who appears to be overdosing in Los Angeles on Aug. 25. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)
The lieutenant trafficker was also a Contra, and the CIA knew that there was an arms-for-drugs shuttle and did nothing to stop it. [54] The report stated that the CIA had requested the Justice Department return $36,800 to a member of the Meneses drug ring, which had been seized by DEA agents in the Frogman raid in San Francisco. The CIA's ...
BOSTON (Reuters) -McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $650 million to resolve a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the consulting firm's work advising opioid manufacturer OxyContin maker ...