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  1. Rubio visits Ecuador as Trump-friendly leader helps the U.S. counterdrug push in the region

    By Matthew LeeAP Diplomatic Writer  Sept. 9, 2026 8:30 AM PT QUITO, Ecuador — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #administration #Colombia #control #country #drug-traffickingboat #Ecuador #Leader #marcorubio #Perú #Quito #region #Rubio #secretaryofstate #securitycooperation #strongu.s.partner #Tuesday #u.s.strike
    europesays.com/3242044/

  2. Inside Trump’s push for zero migrants — and the tunnels defying it

    MEXICO CITY — When the Trump administration announced this summer that illegal crossings into the U.S. from Mexico had reached…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #authority #border #drug #ElPaso #illegalimmigration #lastyear #México #migrant #people #smuggler #stephenmiller #theWhiteHouse #Tijuana #TrumpAdministration #tunnel #U.S.
    europesays.com/3241581/

  3. Scientists Gave #Mice #Cocaine. This Is What It Did to Their #Brains
    Researchers found that a single dose left persistent changes to the #genomes of #neurons, a discovery that could have implications for treating #addiction
    Suggest cocaine, #drug used by ~25M people, may rewire the genomes inside cells of the brain’s reward system, called dopaminergic neurons. Sheds light on mechanisms that drive addiction, and possibly inform treatments in humans.
    404media.co/mice-cocaine-resea
    archive.ph/EqZCI

  4. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/02/k. "Top #legal #experts have... contended that the #strikes violate both #domestic & #international #law & that #drug #trafficking does not constitute grounds for the use of #lethal #military #force. #Counterterrorism experts have also underscored that drug #traffickers, while dangerous, should not be considered #terrorists." If the #criteria for these strikes on #boats don't include their having #drugs or #weapons on board, how can the strikes be justified?

  5. "Judge Ong Hian Sun said tt Chan had betrayed the trust reposed in him as a #doctor, & he had been motivated by #monetary gain.. Chan still has three other pending charges under the #Health Products Act. Among other things, he was charged in 2022 with possessing #expired injection #ampoules of adrenaline & a heartburn relief #drug at Revival #Medical & #Aesthetics Centre in March 2019. These charges will be dealt with at a later date"
    🤔Does he deserve to remain a doctor?!
    straitstimes.com/singapore/cou

  6. If you are a #drug user and you are based in #Australia I highly recommend purchasing a reagent drug test kit for health and safety from this website, sometimes you never know what you might be purchasing off of someone and this should confirm all of your questions.

    kayslab.com.au/

    #drugs #drugtesting #ausgov #politas #humanrights #health #safety #drugtest #alkaloids #science #proscience #auspol #taspol #tasgov #fyi #psa #information

  7. #Trump #DOJ ofcl said #US should just “sink” boats in the #Caribbean

    At a DOJ conference in Feb, then-acting DAG #EmilBove told the DOJ's top #drug prosecutors that the Trump admin wasn't interested in interdicting suspected drug vessels at sea anymore. Instead, he said, the US should "just sink the boats," acc/to 3 people present for the speech.

    #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #WarPowers #Congress
    npr.org/2025/11/17/g-s1-97836/

  8. Sleeping in the sun under a tree in a park in #northhollywood then being awoken by two happy #dogs is way better than #skidrow at 2 AM by a screaming #drug addict.

    Or mugging a mugger at dinner time at 7th & Hope in #losangeles.

    Or drugged at a sober living house in #northridge which is how we end up at the park.

    Yea screw all of #losangeles.

    It's gone to hell, and you may almost die half a dozen times trying not to almost die a dozen times.

    #writing #humor #travel #homeless #disabled

  9. The #Myth of #Drug #Expiration Date. #Hospitals and #pharmacies are required to toss #expired #drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the #FDA has long known that many remain #safe and potent for years longer. propublica.org/article/the-myt

  10. It's good hear that some people turn their lives around to help others and be recognized for it.

    Former #drug addict from #Romford awarded BEM for raising awareness to over a million children.

    romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/248

  11. Harris Visits MAGA Areas of Pennsylvania, to Cut Into Trump’s Edge

    The vice president, who appeared in #Johnstown and #Wilkes-#Barre, said she would
    ❇️ #remove#unnecessary degree #requirements” for some federal jobs,

    a pitch to Mr. Trump’s base of voters without a college education in a part of the state where he expects to perform well.

    Ms. Harris also emphasized her work in California
    ❇️ #prosecuting Mexican #drug #cartels,
    and said as president she would continue to go after them “for pushing poisons like fentanyl on our children.”

    The vice president’s Trump-country pitch amounted to a continuation of her appeal to moderate and right-leaning voters that began at the Democratic National Convention last month
    and continued during Tuesday’s debate with the former president.

    #proharris

    nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/poli

  12. The world can no longer afford two things:
    🔸the costs of economic inequality;
    🔸and the rich.

    Between 2020 and 2022, the world’s most affluent 1% of people captured nearly twice as much of the new global wealth created as did the other 99% of individuals put together
    And in 2019 they emitted as much #carbon #dioxide as the poorest two-thirds of humanity.
    In the decade to 2022, the world’s billionaires more than doubled their wealth, to almost US$12 trillion.

    The evidence gathered by social epidemiologists, including us, shows that large differences in income are a powerful #social #stressor that is increasingly rendering societies dysfunctional.
    For example, bigger gaps between rich and poor are accompanied by higher rates of #homicide and #imprisonment.
    They also correspond to more #infant #mortality, #obesity, #drug #abuse and @COVID-19 #deaths, as well as higher rates of teenage pregnancy and lower levels of child well-being, social mobility and public trust
    The #homicide rate in the United States
    — the most unequal Western democracy
    — is more than 11 times that in Norway (see go.nature.com/49fuujr).
    #Imprisonment rates are ten times as high, and infant mortality and obesity rates twice as high.

    These problems don’t just hit the poorest individuals, although the poorest are most badly affected.
    Even #affluent people would enjoy a better quality of life if they lived in a country with a more equal distribution of wealth, similar to a Scandinavian nation.
    They might see improvements in their mental health and have a reduced chance of becoming victims of violence; their children might do better at school and be less likely to take dangerous drugs.

    The costs of inequality are also excruciatingly high for #governments.
    For example, the Equality Trust, a charity based in London (of which we are patrons and co-founders), estimated that the United Kingdom alone could save more than £100 billion ($126 billion) per year if it reduced its inequalities to the average of those in the five countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that have the smallest income differentials
    — Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Norway and the Netherlands5.
    And that is considering just four areas: greater number of years lived in full health, better mental health, reduced homicide rates and lower imprisonment rates.
    Many commentators have drawn attention to the environmental need to limit economic growth and instead prioritize sustainability and well-being.
    Here we argue that tackling inequality is the foremost task of that transformation.
    Greater @equality will reduce unhealthy and excess consumption, and will increase the #solidarity and #cohesion that are needed to make societies more adaptable in the face of climate and other emergencies.

    nature.com/articles/d41586-024

  13. On Tuesday, #Johnson & #Johnson became the latest drugmaker to take the Biden administration to federal court in an attempt to put a #halt to the #drug #pricing #program. Three other drug companies — #Merck, #Bristol #Myers #Squibb and #Astellas #Pharma — have filed their own lawsuits, as have the industry’s main trade group and the U.S. #Chamber of #Commerce.

    The suits make similar and overlapping claims that the drug pricing provisions are #unconstitutional. They are scattered in federal courts around the country — a tactic that experts say gives the industry a better chance of obtaining #conflicting #rulings that will put the legal challenges on a fast track to a business-friendly #Supreme #Court.

    nytimes.com/2023/07/23/us/poli