From the editorial: "Unused prescriptions can become a 'gateway to addiction.' Seemingly harmless, but they’re helping to fuel (overdoses)" after winding up in the wrong hands."
Duluth police lieutenant Chad Nagorski said investigators worked for over two years to bring charges against the Chicago drug trafficking ring, buying drugs from the group on at least 12 occasions
The new bill would decriminalize 'residual amounts' of illicit substances — minute, unweighable and unusable quantities — regardless of the context in which they were found
From the editorial: "Some 17,000 pharmacies nationwide — including 18 here in Duluth, Superior, and Hermantown — are now designated as authorized collectors of unused prescription drugs."
