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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump is again threatening Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, saying on social media today it has 48 hours to open the strait or, quote, all hell will rain down. This as the search for a missing U.S. service member in Iran continues after Tehran shot down two U.S.
Chapter 2: What are the latest developments in U.S.-Iran tensions?
military planes yesterday. Two other crew members were rescued. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Israel continue to strike Iran. NPR's Dee Parvis has more.
The U.S. and Israeli strikes have been hitting many targets, including a weapons depot and a nuclear power plant. But some strikes have also hit targets like the B1 bridge between the cities of Tehran and Karaj. In response to that strike, Iran released a list of bridges in the region that they could destroy. And there was also a strike on a Red Crescent warehouse in Bushehr.
Iranian media also had reports that U.S. and Israeli strikes hit the Azov Sports Stadium in Tehran, as well as caused damage to Shahid Beheshti University.
NPR's Dee Parvas reporting. It's the first time U.S. military personnel and aircraft have been shot down over Iran in this war. The CDC is warning of an illicit drug that's often found alongside fentanyl in some parts of the country. NPR's Ping Huang reports it can cause dangerous withdrawal symptoms.
Dr. Michael Lynch is an ER physician based in Pittsburgh. He started seeing overdoses involving metatomidine some two years ago. The powerful sedative is often mixed with fentanyl, but fentanyl overdose drugs don't work on it.
So people would start breathing again, but they wouldn't wake up. even after people got naloxone or Narcan.
Patients also came in delirious, agitated, with very high heart rates and not responding to typical medications.
So what we're seeing is tenfold increases in people needing ICU care for withdrawal.
According to the CDC, the drug is most prevalent in the Northeast U.S., though it's also showing up more in the Midwest and the South. Ping Huang, NPR News.
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