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Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder Must Both be Addressed to Reduce Fentanyl Deaths

NYC drug dealer is convicted of killing banker, lawyer and social worker on same day with fentanyl-laced coke: Two ‘deliverymen’ await trial

Suicide attempts involving CANNABIS are rising by 17% per year across US, study warns

As legal pot grows, more kids sickened by edibles at home

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Edible marijuana samples are set aside for evaluation at a cannabis testing laboratory in Santa Ana, Calif., on Aug. 22, 2018. Credit: AP/Chris Carlson

Suffolk County Police say 5-year-old was hospitalized for eating cannabis-infused Halloween candy.

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Woman Accused Of Driving Impaired With 4-Year-Old Passenger, Crashing Into Vehicle On LI

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TikTok is sued by parents of girls aged 8 and 9 ‘who accidentally hanged themselves after being bombarded with “Blackout Challenge” clips by app’s algorithm’ The Daily Mail UK

How California’s legal cannabis dream became a public health nightmare. Daily Mail UK

Model Niece Waidhofer dead at 31 by suicide: Influencer had 4.2M followers

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University of Missouri student is blind, unable to walk or talk after alleged hazing

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TikTok star found dead in parking lot after posting cryptic message

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Melrose Place star Jack Wagner says his son Harrison, 27, ‘lost his battle with addiction’ as he announces a scholarship fund in his name

Daily Mail UK

Suit: Constant Instagram content led Yaphank teen to mental crisis

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Victims of triple fatal crash include grandmother, other relatives, Nassau police said.

The fatal accident, described by Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder as “horrific,” prompted a crackdown on drunken driving, speeding and other traffic infractions.

Major food brands seek crackdown on marijuana-infused copycats

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‘If it were benign, nobody would use it’: Expert warns cannabis use can permanently alter a person’s brain chemistry and could increase the risk of psychiatric disorders

A top neurologist is warning the frequent use of cannabis can cause a person to develop psychiatric issues in the future
She notes that the ‘high’ people feel after using the drug is a result of the drug interacting and altering receptors in the brain
There is a change that these alterations become permanent, and cause long-term damage for some users
Around 30% of people that use the drug report some sort of psychiatric issues, but the trend could be a result of people with the issues reaching for the drug

Dr Yasmin Hurd, a top neuroscientist at Mount Sinai, told a Harvard conference that if marijuana was benign, no one would be using it to get high

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US smashes grim drug records death for the 6th month in a row: Newly-released figures show that 106,000 died between in 12 months up to November 2021 – with 70,000 of those deaths blamed on fentanyl.

Paul Auster’s son gave his 10-month-old daughter Narcan in a failed bid to save her life after she ‘ingested enough heroin and fentanyl to kill a man’, court hears

Daily Mail UK

Boy, 12, In Burn Center After

TikTok ‘Whoosh Bottle’ Challenge

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City communities should have the right to say no to legal pot before Dec. 31 deadline

Schools in the U.S. Taking Precautions Over Disturbing TikTok Threat

for Dec. 17: ‘I’m Scared’

NYC couple blames TikTok prank for wheel coming off their moving vehicle

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After Michael K. Williams, young actor Daniel Mickelson latest star to die in fentanyl-related overdose

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University of Kentucky freshman, 18, dies of ‘alcohol poisoning’ at campus frat house as cops launch probe into how the underage teen obtained booze believed to have killed him

Daily Mail UK

5 Charged In Long Island Narcotics Trafficking Operation: SCDA

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Two Long Island Store Workers Nabbed For Selling Alcohol, E-Cigarettes to Minors, Police Say

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Lethal Drugs Disguised As Prescription Pills Being Peddled On Long Island, DA Warns

Daily Voice

TikTok star Dazhariaa Quint Noyes dies by suicide aged 18 after posting a final tragic video to social media in which she claimed ‘I’m annoying y’all, this is my last post’

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