Tag: overdoses
“The fourth wave of overdoses is unprecedented”
Cardboard headstones with the names of opioid victims outside the courthouse, during the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma, accused of promoting a pain medication, in New York, August 9, 2021. SETH…
Trafficking, overdoses… The formidable rise of new synthetic drugs
COLCANOPA The van tacks on the departmental road 911, crossing the Aveyron from south to north. The model of the vehicle is the most banal there is. Its route carefully…
To fight overdoses, Canada allows small doses
On April 14, 2021, in Vancouver, a demonstration by parents of opioid overdose victims. LIANG SEN/XINHUA/REA The epidemic is blazing from coast to coast, setting cities and towns ablaze. In…
INFO THE POINT. Drugs: record overdoses in Paris in 2021
Last year, 35 drug overdose deaths were recorded in the capital. The highest balance of the last 20 years. Thirty-five people died of overdose in Paris in 2021 (Illustration photo).…
In San Francisco, a district placed in a state of emergency to cope with the increase in overdoses
The Tenderloin neighborhood, one of the poorest in San Francisco, records overdose deaths almost every day (here, April 13, 2020). BEN MARGOT / AP Fentanyl continues to wreak havoc in…