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  • Delta Planes To Carry Narcan After Passenger Dies Of Overdose

    Delta Planes To Carry Narcan After Passenger Dies Of Overdose

    Delta is set to follow its peers United, Frontier and Alaska Airlines, who already stock the opioid-blocking drug.

    Delta Airlines has announced plans to stock all flights with naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, after a passenger died from overdosing in a Delta plane bathroom.

    According to Twitter user Lynne Lyman, who was on the flight from Boston to Los Angeles, a young man was found unconscious in the bathroom with a needle in his arm after a fellow passenger broke the door down. 

    “A man just #overdosed on my @delta flight, needle in arm he passed out in bathroom,” Lyman wrote. “The plane didn’t have a #NarcanKit. The paramedics took 10 minutes to arrive. They just carried him out in a body bag.”

    Harm Reduction

    Lyman then asked Delta Airlines to practice harm reduction by having a Narcan kit on every plane in a tweet that has been shared over 1,300 times.

    Although the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner is still testing to determine the exact cause of death, Delta took Lyman’s advice and will include naloxone in its onboard medical kits starting this fall. They will follow United, Frontier and Alaska Airlines, which already stock the opioid-blocking drug.

    President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, Sara Nelson, spoke out in favor of this move, citing how terrible it feels when flight attendants are unable to save someone who is dying on their flight.

    Onboard Medical Kits

    “When we don’t have the tools to save someone it’s gut wrenching. It’s devastating,” Nelson told CNN. “Oftentimes they’re [people] on a plane traveling to a treatment center and they do not go to that treatment center sober.”

    Nelson responded to Lyman’s story on Twitter by saying that the man’s death is exactly why the AFA has been pressuring all airlines to carry some form of naloxone, which is often distributed in an easy-to-administer nasal spray. 

    “Appreciate @lynnelyman sharing this tragic experience,” she tweeted. “Flight Attendants are aviation’s first responders and we need the proper tools to respond and save lives. In the air there are no options. I’m so sorry for you, Lynne, and the crew and other passengers who had to watch this.”

    A Delta spokesperson told Fox News that they couldn’t comment on the specifics of the on-board death due to privacy concerns, but said that the decision to start stocking Narcan kits was made by the company “earlier this year.”

    According to a 2015 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the increased availability of Narcan kits saved nearly 27,000 lives between 1996 and 2014.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Walmart, CVS And Walgreens Targeted In Massive Opioid Lawsuit

    Walmart, CVS And Walgreens Targeted In Massive Opioid Lawsuit

    The retailers are accused of violating laws that require pharmacies to alert the DEA of suspicious drug orders.

    Supermarkets and large chain drugstores such as Walmart, CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens are the subjects of a massive national lawsuit seeking restitution for the harm caused by the U.S. opioid epidemic that killed hundreds of thousands of people in less than 20 years.

    Cities, counties, and Native American tribes across the country have combined nearly 2,000 cases into what is to be the largest civil case in U.S. history. The trial is set to take place this October.

    Plaintiffs will seek billions of dollars in damages from the companies, each of which is accused of violating laws that require pharmacies to alert the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of suspicious drug orders.

    One such case accused Walgreens of failing to act on a flagged email in 2011 containing an order of 3,271 bottles of the opioid, oxycodone, for a town in Florida with a population of 2,831 people. 

    Walmart Allegations

    Walmart has additionally been accused of failing to properly train its pharmacy employees or “enacting policy to monitor suspicious orders” before 2011 despite the fact that the opioid epidemic was already raging and warnings had been issued about the role of prescription drugs in the crisis.

    All of these alleged failures have resulted in the additional charge of creating a “public nuisance” as part of a system that created and/or fed the opioid crisis.

    According to The New York Times, these companies’ actions worsened a situation “that affects the far reaches of public health, including neonatal intensive care, foster care, emergency services, detox and rehabilitation programs and the criminal justice system.”

    Earlier this month, the trial of Johnson & Johson came to a close in Oklahoma. The company and its subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, was the sole defendant in the lawsuit filed by the state of Oklahoma. Prior to the trial, the state reached settlements with two other defendants named in its lawsuit: Purdue Pharma (for $270 million) and Teva Pharmaceuticals (for $85 million).

    During the seven-week trial, state attorneys argued that Johnson & Johnson created a “public nuisance” by causing harm to the public including injury to public health. A ruling is expected in August.

    The Retailers’ Response

    The stores listed in this most recent lawsuit have all denied wrongdoing, with Walmart claiming that the chain “distributed less than 1.3% of the opioids” that were sent to the counties named in the suit and Walgreens claiming that it “has been an industry leader in combating this crisis in the communities where our pharmacists live and work,” according to statements provided to Vox.

    Purdue Pharma and other manufacturers also denied wrongdoing all the way up to reaching a settlement, but ultimately decided that the $270 million bill was worth avoiding a trial.

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  • Harm Reduction Nonprofit Sues Facebook Over Censorship

    Harm Reduction Nonprofit Sues Facebook Over Censorship

    “We are fighting for the rights of all users of the Internet to appeal from social media giants’ decisions,” the nonprofit’s rep told The Fix. 

    A Polish non-profit organization is suing Facebook for allegedly censoring its harm reduction content by deleting groups and pages on the social media platform that were related to helping people who use and are addicted to drugs.

    The Civil Society Drug Policy Initiative (Społeczna Inicjatywa Narkopolityki, or SIN) filed the lawsuit in May and received a favorable ruling by the District Court in Warsaw in June, though Facebook can still appeal. 

    The case is ongoing, but the court made an interim ruling prohibiting the social media company from removing any more fan pages, profiles or groups run by SIN on Facebook or Instagram.

    The ruling also requires Facebook to store backups of the pages, profiles and groups it already deleted so that they can be restored should SIN win the overall suit. Facebook can appeal the ruling, but SIN is encouraged by this result.

    The Bigger Issue

    A recent report by Vice outlined the larger problem of Facebook pages, groups, posts, and ads being deleted and accounts being banned for promoting harm reduction principles and products.

    In one case, the social media manager for a nonprofit organization called BunkPolice was banned from placing any ads on the platform after submitting and getting approval for ads promoting fentanyl testing kits.

    The kits are used to test batches of illicit drugs for the extremely potent opioid, fentanyl, which has been responsible for a large percentage of the recent overdose deaths in the U.S. However, they got caught up in Facebook’s efforts to stop drug trafficking on its platform.

    Fighting Censorship

    In response to this problem, SIN has launched a “#blocked” campaign to speak out against what it considers to be a worrying spread of content control by large social media companies and censorship.

    “Online platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter increasingly control what you can see and say online. Algorithms follow users’ activity, while filters and moderators address alleged breaches of terms of service,” the campaign website reads. “Unfortunately, there has also been a number of instances when legal and valuable content was removed, including historical photos, war photography, publications documenting police brutality and other human rights’ violations, coverage of social protests, works of art and satire.”

    The NGO also published a corresponding video on YouTube the day after filing its lawsuit against Facebook. The video warns about social media giants having too much control over the content that everyday people see, and cautions that “you too could end up on their blacklist.” For SIN, this goes beyond the goal of harm reduction to freedom of speech rights for all internet users.

    “We are fighting for the rights of all users of the Internet to appeal from social media giants’ decisions,” said SIN representative Jerzy Afanasjew in an email to The Fix.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • El Chapo Sentenced To Life Plus 30 Years, Ordered To Pay $12.6 Billion

    El Chapo Sentenced To Life Plus 30 Years, Ordered To Pay $12.6 Billion

    The infamous drug kingpin’s defense plans to appeal, claiming juror misconduct.

    The infamous drug kingpin known as El Chapo has been sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison and will have to hand over $12.6 billion after being found guilty of overseeing one of the biggest criminal drug operations in the world—the international Sinaloa Cartel.

    The drug lord, real name Joaquin Guzman Loera, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn by Judge Brian Cogan last Wednesday (July 17).

    Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel has been blamed for fueling the opioid epidemic in the U.S. by funneling mass amounts of heroin into the country, as well as cocaine and methamphetamine. Much of his cartel operated in Mexico, where Guzman was twice incarcerated in maximum security prisons. He escaped each time, the second through a nearly mile-long tunnel under the prison.

    Guzman remained silent during his three-month trial, but made what CNBC called a “tear-choked statement” after his sentence was handed down, claiming that he was denied a fair trial and accusing the U.S. of corruption.

    “My case was stained and you denied me a fair trial when the world was watching,” he said as his words were translated from Spanish by his lawyer. “What happened here [in] the U.S. is not better than any other corrupt country.”

    Living Conditions

    He also claimed that he was being tortured in detainment.

    “I drink unsanitary water, no air or sunlight, and the air pumped in makes my ears and throat hurt. In order to sleep, I put toilet paper in my ears. My wife had not been allowed to visit, and I can’t hug my daughters. This has been psychological, emotional and mental torture 24 hours a day.”

    Guzman’s defense plans to appeal, claiming juror misconduct. One of the jurors for this case told Vice News in February that “at least five fellow jurors violated the judge’s orders by following the case in the media during the trial.”

    A Damning Statement

    One of his cartel’s victims made a statement about how Guzman has affected her life—and nearly ended it.

    “Today I come here a miracle of God,” said Andrea Velez Fernandez. “Mr. Guzman used me as bait to kidnap someone in Ecuador. He offered one million dollars to Hells Angels to end my life. Fortunately I found out and escaped with the help of the FBI.

    Guzman will likely serve out his sentence in the ADX Florence in Colorado, one of the country’s “supermax” security prisons, due to his history of escaping. The Sinaloa Cartel has continued to operate after the kingpin’s arrest.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Suboxone Maker To Pay $1.4 Billion In Largest US Opioid Settlement To Date

    Suboxone Maker To Pay $1.4 Billion In Largest US Opioid Settlement To Date

    Reckitt Benckiser denied any wrongdoing in a statement but decided that taking the deal was its best option.

    Suboxone manufacturer and distributor Reckitt Benckiser (RB) Group will pay a total of $1.4 billion to the U.S. government after taking a settlement offer by the Department of Justice. This will end civil and criminal probes into the multinational company and is so far the largest opioid-related settlement in U.S. history.

    RB was under investigation due to alleged misconduct by its former subsidiary company, Indivior. The subsidiary is still under investigation and is set to go to trial over the allegations in May 2020.

    Accusations

    Indivior has been accused of making misleading claims in its marketing materials and of running a program that was supposed to be a resource for people with opioid use disorder but was allegedly used to connect people with doctors who were known to prescribe Suboxone.

    According to a statement by the Department of Justice, these doctors were prescribing the addiction treatment drug and other opioid-based medications “to more patients than allowed by federal law, at high doses, and in a careless and clinically unwarranted manner.”

    Suboxone contains both buprenorphine, a low-intensity opioid that can treat or prevent opioid withdrawal symptoms without getting a patient high, and naloxone, which blocks opioid receptors in the brain and is commonly used to treat opioid overdoses. The naloxone in Suboxone is only activated if the tablets are crushed or dissolved for snorting or injecting the drug, which is meant to prevent its abuse.

    In spite of this precaution, Suboxone still contains an opioid and can be abused, so it remains a controlled substance under the U.S. government. 

    Although Indivior is no longer a part of RB, the former parent company agreed to hand over $647 million in proceeds received from Indivior as well as paying $700 million in civil settlements across six states and to the federal government, plus an additional $50 million to the Federal Trade Commission.

    The Terms

    Under the terms of the settlement, they will also refrain from manufacturing, marketing, or selling Schedule I, II, or III controlled substances in the U.S. for three years.

    RB denied any wrongdoing in a statement but decided that taking the deal was the best option.

    “While RB acted lawfully at all times and expressly denies all allegations that it has engaged in any wrongful conduct, after careful consideration, the board of RB determined that the agreement is in the best interests of the company and its shareholders,” the statement reads.

    Officials of states participating in the lawsuit are pleased by this result.

    “This is a landmark moment in our fight to hold drug companies responsible for their role in the opioid crisis,” said Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring. “We will not allow anyone to put profits over people, or to exacerbate or exploit the opioid crisis for their own benefit.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Liv Tyler Discusses Anxiety, Going To Therapy

    Liv Tyler Discusses Anxiety, Going To Therapy

    Tyler revealed that she uses coginitive behavioral therapy and meditation to manage her anxiety.

    Actress Liv Tyler, most recently of Hulu’s Harlots, spoke on her struggles with anxiety and her decision to attend cognitive behavioral therapy in a recent interview with The New York Times.

    Tyler, the daughter of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, admitted that she doesn’t enjoy the spotlight, yet she loves the creative process of her work, and is trying to change her priorities and thought patterns to make the fame part—and her life in general—easier.

    “That is definitely the great puzzle and mystery of my entire life,” she said. “I’m always trying to learn as much as I can about myself, both from my mind and anxiety in general. I definitely have a side to me that’s very shy, or shy in certain situations. I’m better one-on-one, I think. I’m trying to articulate it. I’m still trying to understand it.”

    Handling Fame

    According to the Times, Tyler started attending cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) this year to help reduce the anxiety that so much attention from her career has brought her. She also spoke on her personal fascination with the human mind and her desire to better understand herself.

    “I tend to ask a lot of questions so that I can understand the world more, people more,” said Tyler. “It’s fascinating, people, how they think, how the brain works.”

    Tyler also practices transcendental meditation in order to help her cope with the stress of her career and motherhood. She spoke about this coping technique in 2013, saying that “it helps me make better decisions and be a better mother, and just deal with the daily stress of the modern world that we live in.”

    The pressure of the world, particularly as it embraces social media as an everyday part of life, caused Tyler to consider quitting acting altogether in 2017, according to The Irish Examiner.

    Finding The Balance

    Due to her natural shyness, she had trouble learning how to promote herself online through this increasingly essential medium, and she wasn’t sure she liked it.

    “A world changing so much, I was just kind of trying to find my place in all of that.”

    Today, Tyler is still working on achieving a balance that works for her and her family. She calls herself a perfectionist and says she has trouble with time management and tends to overextend herself.

    “I’m always striving to achieve balance, which I think is a very tricky thing in the world today in general. I think our society is not really set up for balance, a lot of extremes going on.”

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Facebook Users Promoting Harm Reduction Face Bans And Deleted Pages

    Facebook Users Promoting Harm Reduction Face Bans And Deleted Pages

    Facebook is reportedly “still investigating” cases of entire pages and groups for harm reduction being deleted.

    A new Facebook campaign to combat the opioid crisis appears to have unintentionally targeted harm reduction efforts on its own social media platform as ads for fentanyl-testing kits result in bans and pages created by harm reduction organizations are deleted.

    A report by Vice found and interviewed multiple individuals who have been targeted by the platform in ways that are hampering their efforts to prevent overdose deaths.

    Facebook recently teamed up with Partnership for Drug-Free Kids for the “Stop Opioid Silence” campaign, but their efforts to fight drug trafficking on the massive social platform looks to have created more opioid-related silence.

    This is causing serious problems for organizations such as the Southside Harm Reduction Services that post warnings on their Facebook pages about local batches of illicit drugs that had been found to contain fentanyl, the extremely potent opioid responsible for many of the overdose cases and deaths in recent years. These posts are being rejected or experiencing “reduced distribution,” meaning that those that do get posted are not being seen by the community.

    In one particularly severe case, the social media manager of BunkPolice, Colin Marcom, was permanently banned from placing any ads on Facebook after he used the platform to advertise BunkPolice’s fentanyl testing kits.

    These simple kits can easily test for fentanyl, which is a tasteless and odorless synthetic opioid easily mixed in heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and other common illicit drugs.

    “Facebook banned my personal account from ever being able to place ads on Facebook again, b/c of an ad, with this picture, that they approved for $20 & it ran for 7 days,” wrote BunkPolice in a Twitter post. “7 days, no warning – right to suspension – I submitted a sensible appeal, they said I was promoting drug use.”

    While harm reduction efforts like these have been repeatedly found to save lives without increasing drug use, as some people feared, Facebook seems to be treating these efforts like they’re a drug-trafficking scheme. To make matters worse, recent attempts to appeal bans and deleted posts and pages have been rejected. 

    After Vice contacted Facebook for comment, multiple posts from harm reduction pages that were previously flagged and deleted were restored, suggesting that the problem may be automated. It’s also possible that the vague language in their “regulated goods policy,” that allows for posts about drug use “in a recovery context,” was misinterpreted by employees who reviewed the appeals. 

    An extended report published by The Verge earlier this year found that Facebook moderators are chronically overworked, confused by ever-changing policies, and in some cases have been diagnosed with PTSD from viewing so much extremely disturbing content.

    According to the report, these moderators spend less than 30 seconds on an average flagged post before deciding whether to allow or delete.

    Facebook is reportedly “still investigating” cases of entire pages and groups for harm reduction being deleted.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Artie Lange "Doing Well," Back In Rehab After Probation Violation

    Artie Lange "Doing Well," Back In Rehab After Probation Violation

    Lange will reportedly stay in rehab until the end of summer. 

    Comedian Artie Lange, formerly of The Howard Stern Show, is reportedly “doing well” after being arrested for violating his probation following prosecution for heroin and cocain posession.

    Officials told Radar Online that Lange is “currently doing well and following the rules” and will be staying at a rehabilitation facility in Clinton Hill, New Jersey through the end of the summer.

    Legal Troubles

    Lange was arrested in May by the Essex County Sheriff’s Office, who said that he was “non-compliant” with his probation in spite of reports that the comedian was doing great. His most recent legal troubles started in 2017 with the possession charges, which resulted in him being ordered into an intensive six-month addiction treatment program in March.

    The arrests may be the best thing for him, according to individuals close to Lange who reportedly spoke to Radar Online. One “insider” said that Lange was in “self-destruct mode” and was avoiding a drug court program that could have helped him avoid prison time so that he could continue to use drugs.

    “He knows he won’t survive drug court,” the source said. “So he’s going to party as much as he can until he gets thrown in jail or a year-long rehab.”

    This isn’t the first time Lange has been arrested for drug possession and gone to a rehab program. After developing an addiction to alcohol and cocaine early in his comedy career, he attempted suicide in 1995 after running out of the stimulant and entered rehab and counseling.

    Artie’s History

    He then suffered a relapse in late 1996 and was arrested after fleeing an intervention staged by his fellow Mad TV cast members. He swore off cocaine in 1997, but continued to struggle with alcohol and opioid addiction, relapses, and mental illness, including another suicide attempt in 2010.

    Lange’s continuing struggles with addiction resulted in his leaving The Howard Stern Show after 10 years. In a Rolling Stone interview published in May, Stern finally opened up about his concern for his former co-host and friend’s health and state of mind after so many years of fighting an intense drug problem.

    “I’m very dismayed about where he’s at. I do care, but for a whole bunch of reasons that relationship had to stop,” Stern said. “Artie was on the show for 10 years. He’s a fantastic comedian. There’s nobody who could have sat in like that.”

    After his 2017 arrest, Lange often posted happy videos of himself doing his court-ordered community service work, giving the impression that all was well. However, Radar Online sources have said that the comedian’s health has been in decline due to his diabetes.

    “He’s had to have medical assistance several times already for his diabetes,” a source reported.

    Hopefully, the latest reports that he’s doing well will prove to be true.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Amanda Bynes Returns To Inpatient Treatment After College Graduation

    Amanda Bynes Returns To Inpatient Treatment After College Graduation

    Bynes has been working on developing a career in fashion since she retired from acting in 2010.

    Amanda Bynes is currently still living in an inpatient care facility for her mental health as she’s taking the next steps in her life and career, an unnamed source told People.

    In late June, the actress and fashion designer walked in her graduation ceremony from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising before returning to the facility.

    “Amanda is still inpatient in a mental health facility,” said a friend of Bynes. “She was able to get an outing pass for a few hours for the special occasion so she could walk with the other students. But she left a little early and was back at the facility at the end of the graduation.”

    Bynes has struggled with mental illness and addiction for several years.

    In 2012, she was charged with a DUI, though the charge was dropped two years later. In 2013, she was put under a 72-hour mental-health evaluation hold in a mental health facility after she allegedly started a small fire in a stranger’s driveway. Since then, her parents have repeatedly filed for and been granted conservatorship over Bynes due to her illness.

    In 2018, Bynes publicly announced that she had been sober for four years after struggling with substance use disorder, particularly with Adderall.

    Getting Help

    In addition to working on getting sober and improving her mental health, Bynes has been working on developing a career in fashion since she retired from acting in 2010. She enrolled at the Fashion Institute in 2014 and received her associate’s degree in Merchandise Product Development last year, and her bachelor’s this year.

    Earlier this year, the Bynes family attorney Tamar Arminak told People that Amanda has been doing well in the inpatient program.

    “Amanda is doing great, working on herself, and taking some well-deserved time off to focus on her wellbeing after graduating FIDM in December,” he said. “She’s spending time reading and exercising, sketching for her new line and mostly making sure this time around she puts her needs first.”

    A Rare Photo

    Bynes even posted a rare photo of herself on her Twitter account—one of only 11 tweets on an account that has nearly three million followers. The photo shows her posing in cap and gown with a friend dressed in a leopard print vest and tie.

    FIDM graduate 2019 #fidmgraduation pic.twitter.com/KdFI5dPOdK

    — amanda bynes (@amandabynes) June 25, 2019

    Amanda unfortunately suffered a relapse in March after she attempted to return to acting. She has had difficulties in the past with seeing herself on screen and hating how she looked. 

    “I literally couldn’t stand my appearance in that movie and I didn’t like my performance. I was absolutely convinced I needed to stop acting after seeing it,” she said of her 2010 movie Easy A.

    View the original article at thefix.com

  • Cory Booker Criticizes Biden Over Crime Bill That Intensified War On Drugs

    Cory Booker Criticizes Biden Over Crime Bill That Intensified War On Drugs

    Booker wants Biden to take more accountability for his role in passing legislation that exacerbated sentencing disparities in black and brown communities.  

    Presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker brought up Joe Biden’s 1994 crime bill as a key factor in the “War on Drugs” and the increasingly disproportionate incarceration of people of color in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press. 

    The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which then-Senator Joe Biden helped to write and pass, increased the number and average length of prison sentences in the U.S. and incentivized local governments to build more prisons and jails. Criminal justice reform advocates have pointed to this bill as the start of an accelerated rate of mass incarceration.

    “These are very typical, painful issues to the point now that, because of a lot of the legislation that Joe Biden endorsed, this war on drugs, which has been a war on people, we now have had a 500% increase in the prison population since 1980, overwhelmingly black and brown,” Booker said. “There’s more African Americans under criminal supervision today than all the slaves in 1850. These are real, painful, hurtful issues.”

    Sentencing Disparities Persist

    Booker also pointed out that other Democrats who were involved in the creation and passage of the 1994 bill have expressed remorse while Joe Biden has continued to defend it.

    “But what we’ve seen, from the vice president, over the last month, is an inability to talk candidly about the mistakes he made, about things he could’ve done better, about how some of the decisions he made at the time, in difficult context, actually have resulted in really bad outcomes,” he said.

    According to The Sentencing Project, there are more people behind bars today for a drug-related offense than the entire prison and jail population for any crime in the year 1980. One in three black men will be behind bars during some period of their lives. That number is one in 17 for white men.

    Incarceration Rates Soar

    Incarceration rates, particularly for low-level drug offenses, have skyrocketed while crime rates have decreased overall across the country since 1980. Violent crime rates in particular have fallen sharply during the past 25 years, according to a report by the Pew Research Center.

    Senator Booker has made criminal justice reform a central issue for his 2020 presidential campaign. In June, he revealed a plan to commute the sentences of 17,000 prisoners convicted of drug-related crimes, followed by a bill to protect immigrants from being deported or denied entry into the country for cannabis possession.

    “For decades, this broken system has hollowed out entire communities, wasted billions of taxpayer dollars, and failed to make us safer,” Booker’s campaign website reads. “As president, Cory will fight to end the War on Drugs, implement bold and comprehensive reforms of our criminal justice system, and pursue restorative justice.”

    View the original article at thefix.com