USA. Court rejects murder conviction for dealer in overdose death A Mississippi appeals court has rejected a test case of whether drug dealers can be prosecuted for murder under state law when a drug user dies. (The State, USA, 08.09.2018) https...

USA. Florida ‘Pill Mill’ Doctor, Staff Sentenced After 1.2 Million Doses A South Florida doctor was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for conspiring to prescribe more than a million doses of addictive opioid-based painkiller...

Kolumbien. Colombia plans to rewind liberal drug possession laws Colombian president Ivan Duque on Sunday announced measures that will see police be given the powers to confiscate minimum doses of drugs that were previously legalized for personal...

USA. California lawmakers vote to wipe out old pot convictions When California voters approved Proposition 64 in November 2016, they OK'd more than the legalization of recreational marijuana. They authorized allowing people to petition the judici...

USA. Prosecuting Dealers for Opioid Deaths Called ‘Bad Justice Policy’ Prosecutors across the country have been expanding the use of stiff penalties targeted at drug dealers whose clients have died as a result of using their product, ...

USA. Surgeon Gets Life in Prison for Role in Opioid Death Johnny Clyde Benjamin, MD, an orthopedic surgeon in Florida, was sentenced to life in prison on July 6 in a federal district court in Fort Lauderdale for his role in the overdose death of ...