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(CBSMiami, March 30) — Coconut Creek Police say Christine Arguelles had a box of gummy candies laced with marijuana in the refrigerator of her home.

(Vox, April 1) The crackdown on opioid prescriptions to rein in the raging epidemic of opioid abuse and overdoses is picking up steam. 

(WKEF/WRGT/CNN, April 5) – A 13-year-old in Ohio is dead and his father arrested after the boy allegedly overdosed on his dad’s heroin.

In the midst of America’s heroin epidemic, a disturbing dynamic is coming to light. 

There was a time when Louisville paramedics would go days without seeing a single drug overdose. Now, medics across the city are seeing a huge surge.

(Science, March 29) Fentanyl and its analogs are new faces of a worsening scourge.

(Huffington Post, March 29) At a roundtable discussion on the opioid epidemic Wednesday, President Donald Trump lamented that a crisis which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in recent years has not gotten enough attention.

(Restore Center LA, March 28) In the last few years, fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have ravaged communities throughout the United States, and the U.S. government is trying to look for new solutions to the ever-growing crisis

(Associated Press, March 30) — U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is introducing federal legislation that would authorize $10 million for programs to prevent opioid misuse among students and student athletes.

Heroin use in the U.S. more than quadrupled during the last decade according to a study from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.