Brian Mann
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1,594 appearances
204 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard today
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Attorney General Todd Blanch praised yesterday's fine for Purdue Pharma.
He called it a prime example of the Justice Department's effort to redress past wrongs.
The company admitted misleading the public about the safety of OxyContin and to paying doctors to over-prescribe opioid medications.
Critics, including Ed Bish, who lost his son to an OxyContin overdose, are angry the DOJ didn't bring charges against company executives.
Members of the Sackler family who own the company say they did nothing wrong and they've never been charged with any crime.
Purdue Pharma is now expected to finalize a much larger federal bankruptcy settlement worth roughly $7.4 billion.
Brian Mann, NPR News.
Fatal street drug overdoses have been plummeting, reaching their lowest levels in more than half a decade, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But street drug experts like Ed Sisco with the National Institute of Standards and Technology worry a new wave of synthetic chemicals being added to street drugs is heightening the danger again.
Once a month or once every other month, we're encountering something that we've never seen before and we haven't seen indications of it being seen in the United States before either.
Officials have issued warnings about a dangerous sedative called metatomidine that's causing heart ailments in people who use street drugs and a synthetic opioid more powerful than fentanyl called cyclophene linked to recent overdose deaths in South Carolina and Tennessee.
Brian Mann, NPR News.
This latest drop means roughly 710,000 fewer babies were born in the U.S.
in 2025 compared with the peak in 2007.
Lead CDC researcher Brady Hamilton says the steady drop in U.S.
fertility is sizable and has persisted for almost 20 years.
Since 2007, there's been a decline in the general fertility rate of 23 percent.
That's partly driven by a big decline in teen pregnancies.
At the same time, immigration into the U.S.
has plunged under the Trump administration.
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