Well, California, the land of juxtaposition, in the wake of passing laws that take away your choice not to vaccinate, it now gives you the choice to die – more quickly that is. Doctors are struggling with the new bill that allows for the prescription of lethal drugs to “end suffering” in terminal patients.
Synthetic designer drugs, especially synthetic opioids pose an “unprecedented” threat for U.S. overdoses and deaths, especially among youth, the country’s top anti-drug official said on Tuesday. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has been cracking down on synthetic drugs, (like fentanyl implicated in the death of pop star Prince), but because each newly designed drug needs to be separately banned through a “clunky and cumbersome” process, the problem continues to spiral, DEA head Chuck Rosenberg told a U.S. Senate committee.