Subject: Narcotics
Produced for police orientation and training in 1951, this film explores the problem of drug addiction. It includes dramatized sequences of heroin addicts in shooting galleries in downtown L…
594 viewsProduced for police orientation and training in 1951, this film explores the problem of drug addiction. It includes dramatized sequences of heroin addicts in shooting galleries in downtown L…
594 views“We are aware of the many important lifesaving drugs that your companies have produced ... but I think as all of you know, those drugs mean nothing to anybody who cannot afford it,” said Sen…
2,248 viewsHealth care advocates and researchers testified on prescription drugs costs before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Their testimony followed that of pharmaceutica…
153 viewsThe Senate Special Aging Committee held a public hearing to examine substance abuse by older adults. Topics included data on increasing overdose deaths by seniors, fentanyl and the opioid ep…
633 views“I was a part of the problem. I am here now standing as a man that wants to be a part of the solution,' said musician Jason "Jelly Roll” DeFord as he testified before the Senate Banking, Hou…
5,915 viewsJournalist and author Sam Quinones talked about the fentanyl crisis and opioid addiction in the U.S. and efforts to address them.
918 viewsRegina LaBelle talked about how federal, state, and local governments were responding to drug addiction and the fentanyl crisis.
883 viewsUniversity of Texas history professor Seth Garfield ("GuaranĂ¡") and science journalist Rachel Nuwer ("I Feel Love") talked about the impact of that mind-altering substances like caffeine and…
180 viewsViewers responded to the question “Do you support or oppose nationwide legalization of marijuana?”
835 viewsNatalie Fertig talked about the Health and Human Services Administration recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Agency that marijuana be reclassified.
308 viewsVice President Harris met with state attorneys general on combating the fentanyl public health crisis impacting communities all across the country.
94 viewsPodcaster and first-time author Laura Cathcart Robbins discussed her memoir about her struggle with addiction. This interview took place at the 2023 Tucson Festival of Books.
223 viewsHouse Republican leaders and several House Republican members who are also medical doctors held a news conference to discuss the fentanyl epidemic and its impact on American lives.
230 viewsAuthor and journalist Sam Quinones joined Book TV to talk and take calls about immigration issues and the drug epidemic in the United States. His books include True Tales from Another Mexico…
2,325 viewsCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said there will be some challenges as the health care system transitions out of the COVID-19 public heal…
344 viewsJournalist and author Sam Quinones talked about the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. and the role played by Mexico in addressing the problem.
1,382 views“The Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco (CJNG) Cartel, both cartels in Mexico, are responsible for the vast majority of fentanyl that is coming into the U.S. It is why DEA has made defeating tho…
2,624 viewsErin Rachwal, founder of the Love, Logan Foundation, said the death of her son Logan to fentanyl poisoning during his freshman year in college “was like a bomb going off in the middle of our…
1,515 viewsLosing a Generation was the first-prize middle school winner in C-SPAN Classroom’s StudentCam documentary contest. Ben Kurian, a seventh grader at Olentangy Liberty Middle School in Powell, …
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