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#fentanyl

Trump reiterated his decision to call off a planned incursion of federal agents and/or troops in San Francisco this weekend after phone calls with Lurie, as well as "friends" Marc Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. "It's very different from the vicious way Trump has described mayors of other big, blue cities," the Times notes, saying that other cabinet members spoke favorably about Lurie and Trump added, "I told the mayor, 'I love what you're doing.'"

The inmate, identified as 31-year-old Markeisha Monique Renee Blount, suffered a medical emergency around 6 a.m. on Sept. 29 at the Maple Street Correctional Facility, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Tuesday. Jail personnel administered life-saving measures, including Narcan, but she died at the facility. Detectives determined another inmate brought drugs into the jail and gave them to Blount, the sheriff's office said, adding that "the drugs are believed to have contained fentanyl."

Fewer than one in three teenagers with opioid use disorder receive treatment, according to a study published in this month's Health Affairs journal that looked at the disorder in minors from 2022 to 2023. In 2023, 557 teens died of opioid overdose, nearly threefold as many as in 2018, while adult opioid deaths only went up by 65% during this time, according to the study. Drug overdoses are now among the leading causes of death for US teenagers.

Ibrahim was among the drug dealers who regularly sold illicit narcotics, primarily fentanyl, to people who used the now-closed supervised injection site, which did not itself provide narcotics, reads the statement of facts. According to the statement of facts, he and others would often set up a shop in the courtyard directly to the west of the centre, near the Queen Street E. Presbyterian Church. Ibrahim would regularly spend time around the centre and was known to workers as Ben.

It's absolutely true there were UN-affiliated organizations that enable a lot of this mass migration but they also have been very permissive about money laundering in the movement of illicit chemicals. The fentanyl pandemic in the United States is tied to a lot of these kinds of movements. Took my daughter and 500,000 other sweet children out of our country.

Don't take fentanyl - because if you do, you'll be dead like me,

There was a long period of time that we weren't seeing [it], but it has started creeping up since May,

Drug deaths in the U.S. have plunged dramatically and steadily since the summer of 2023, according to the latest preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Figures released this month by CDC show fatal overdoses falling to 77,648 in the 12-month period ending in March of this year. That's the lowest tally of provisional predicted deaths from fentanyl and other street drugs since at least March 2020.

"The senseless deaths of these two little girls broke our hearts yet hardened our determination to hold responsible the people whose recklessness killed them," District Attorney Jeff Rosen said.

New evidence retrieved from a drug dealer's broken cell phone led to the murder charges against the father of 3-month-old Phoenix Castro and the drug dealer, Phillip Ortega. This marks San Jose's second-ever murder prosecution over a child's fentanyl overdose.

This today is about fentanyl. I'm not going to talk about Epstein.