Krokodil, the Cheap Heroin That Will Rot Your Skin and Fingers Off, Seen in St

Krokodil, the Cheap Heroin That Will Rot Your Skin and Fingers Off, Seen in St

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The heroin substitute is cheap and easy to make, which could draw addicts despite the guarantee that the deadly, flesh-eating drug kills users within a few years, wrote two St. Louis doctors in a recently corrected article in the American Journal of … Read more on Riverfront Times (blog)

 

Insane or mentally ill a powerful distinction in Wash. judicial system

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Multiple psychological evaluations conducted by state experts between 2005 and 2013 conclude he's not mentally ill — just an addict. Jonathan Meline is a paranoid … “It's a crack in the system,” said Ron Adler, CEO of Western State. A new law pushed … Read more on CorrectionsOne

 

What it takes to free a man

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As pardon attorney, Rodgers deliberately misled the president of the United States–as an investigative series I wrote showed and a subsequent inspector-general's report confirmed–when he withheld facts in Aaron's case. Aaron, now 43, will forever be … Read more on MSNBC