The number of COVID-19 deaths from drug overdoses this year in San Francisco has risen by a margin of three to one, as deaths related to the powerful painkiller fentanyl have risen. In 2020 alone, drug overdoses killed 621 people in San Francisco, while the number of coronavirus deaths was …
Read More »Andrew Gillum heads to rehab after incident in room
Andrew Gillum, the once-rising Democratic star who narrowly lost the 2018 Florida governor’s career, opened for the first time since leaving public life and entered rehab. Speaking in an 11-minute Instagram post on Monday, the 40-year-old politician was candid about his struggles against alcoholism and depression, which he said worsened …
Read More »Fatal drug overdoses increased in 2019, reversing the drop from the previous year
Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the number of deaths from drug overdoses in the US increased 4.6 percent in 2019 after falling for the first time in three decades in 2018. While the data won’t be finalized until the end of this …
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