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HUMAN RIGHTS
Slavery Up 25 Percent in Three Years, as the Exploitation Epidemic Grows
For sexual exploitation or forced labor, slavery continues—not only unabated, but growing to as many as 65 million victims worldwide.
DRUGS
Fish Hooked on Drugs Bodes Ill for Humans
“Red-flag” study shows fentanyl and other drugs are making their way into our water and the creatures that use it… including us.
DRUGS
So-Called “Legal” Cannabis Often Covered in Illegal Pesticides, Tests Show
The effect of undeclared pesticides are multiplied when found in dangerous cannabis, which is combusted on use, and burrows deep into human lungs.
HUMAN RIGHTS
New $215 Million Victims Fund Will Help Survivors Sex Trafficked on Backpage
The owners were jailed and the website assets confiscated, but the role of Tony Ortega—Backpage’s notorious sex trafficking champion—remains to be fully explored.
MENTAL HEALTH
Anyone Is Vulnerable, as Another Antidepressant Death Touches the Royal Family
Even the coroner specified that the self-inflicted death was an “adverse effect” of the antidepressant the man had been prescribed. Adverse indeed—and all too preventable.
DRUGS
Shocking Child Fentanyl Death in Day Care Exposes Drug Dealer’s Indifference
One-year-old Nicholas Dominici died from ingesting the deadly opioid fentanyl at a day care center because the owner did not respect the infant’s right to life. It’s not the only example. Fentanyl is killing our kids.
MENTAL HEALTH
Behavioral Health Provider Fined $2.5 Million for Claiming to Treat Dead Patients—and Other Abuses
North Carolina’s Southeastern Behavioral Healthcare Services was ripping off US taxpayers for more than four years before they got caught.
MENTAL HEALTH
Five Lawsuits Against Indiana Psychiatric Hospital Point to Systemic Abuse
Options Behavioral Health Hospital stands accused of exaggerating symptoms or adjusting drug dosages to justify prolonged hospitalization.
HATE
Google IDs Alex Barnes-Ross as a Broke Bigot
The internet never forgets—in this case, that Alex Barnes-Ross is best known as a bigot, begging for cash.
DRUGS
Pharmaceutical Mole aka VA Under Secretary Pushes Ecstasy on Our Nation’s Vets
Shereef Elnahal, Under Secretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has a history of financial ties to a pharmaceutical company deeply involved in Ecstasy research. No wonder he keeps pushing for wider acceptance of the deadly drug.
HATE
LA County Reports Highest Ever Hate Crimes, With Spikes in Virtually Every Category
After three consecutive years of double-digit increases, the number of reported hate crimes in 2023 spiked by 45 percent, from 930 to 1,350, the highest figure since reporting began in 1980.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Greek Sex Trafficking Ring Dismantled—But It’s a Drop in the Bucket
Over and over, sex trafficking and blackmail rings traffic women to centrally located Greece for forced prostitution and other sexual exploitation. Why isn’t the government doing more?
