Jan. 2—A Post Falls traffic stop led to the seizure of 1,000 fentanyl pills, 1 pound of methamphetamine and a stolen gun. A Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office deputy pulled over a vehicle early Tuesday morning in the area of Interstate 90 and Pleasant View Road, according to a sheriff’s office news release. Law enforcement smelled […]
Unprotected sex on New Year’s Eve may be driving a spike in sales of emergency contraception after the holiday, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study, researchers looked at marketing data on weekly aggregated sales of emergency contraception between 2016 and 2022 and found that sales significantly increase […]
Unprotected sex on New Year’s Eve may be driving a spike in sales of emergency contraception after the holiday, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study, researchers looked at marketing data on weekly aggregated sales of emergency contraception between 2016 and 2022 and found that sales significantly increase […]
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The share of American women who say they have ever used emergency contraception after having sex has more than doubled since the so-called “morning after” or Plan B brand pills were approved to be sold without a prescription, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. The increase is among dozens of trends tracked […]
Mexican authorities have shuttered another batch of pharmacies, this time in the coastal town of Ensenada, after seizing medicines that could be contaminated with fentanyl. Mexican marines as well as the nation’s sanitation agency (known by the acronym COFEPRIS) inspected 53 pharmacies in the city and ultimately shut down 31 of them for the “irregular […]
Mexican authorities raided dozens of pharmacies in Ensenada and seized thousands of boxes of pills as part of a broader effort to crack down on drugstores suspected of selling counterfeit and fentanyl-tainted medications. The joint effort by the Mexican navy and federal health authorities is at least the third such operation this year; over the […]