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BusinessInsider.com 

Georgia is going backward in the fight against the opioid epidemic

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The U.S. Senate approved a bill July 13 with a vote of 92-2 to treat the nation’s opioid addiction crisis.

It’s worth noting that one state – Georgia – recently passed a law that could block, rather than expand, access to treatment. Could other states also go in Georgia’s direction? Could it possibly be a good idea?

In 2014, more than 47,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, and two-fifths of these were from opioid-based medicines for pain control, with... Читать дальше...

International Business Times 

Mike Pence RNC Speech Live Stream: Watch Ted Cruz And Vice President Nominee Speak At Republican Convention

UPDATED: 9:49 p.m. EDT — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz walked out on the Republican National Convention stage and promptly saluted Donald Trump's crowning achievement before turning his attention to the Dallas police officers who were killed early this month after a sniper shot them as payback for a recent spate of black men being killed by law enforcement.

BBC 

Comparison site rules 'should remain'

MPs on the Energy Committee have written to the new business secretary to demand no change to the current rules on price comparison websites

TheRepublic.com 

Misconduct probe for judge accused of racist, sexist slurs

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida circuit judge is under investigation over allegations that he made demeaning comments about women and once said that black people “should go back to Africa.” The allegations were detailed in a filing made late Tuesday to the state Supreme Court by the state panel charged with probing judicial conduct. The

Sputnik International 

Please Don't Shoot Our Civilians: UK Begs US

Secret UK Cabinet files released by the National Archives in Kew, west London on Thursday reveal that at the height of protests against the deployment of US nuclear cruise missiles in 1983-1985 the government of Margaret Thatcher was horrified by a prospect of US military shooting British peace activists.