2019

OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Considering Bankruptcy Filing: Reports

Business /

By Mike Spector, Jessica DiNapoli and Nate Raymond March 4 (Reuters) – OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from roughly 2,000 lawsuits alleging the drug manufacturer contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping the United States, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. The potential […]

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36 Hours in Mendocino County

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Ninety miles north of San Francisco, Mendocino County is just far enough away to have narrowly escaped the Bay Area’s radical transformation during the tech boom years. In contrast to other formerly quiet Northern California backwaters, Mendocino maintains its rural identity and eccentricities, including its longstanding status as one of the country’s major marijuana-producing regions.

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Irish regulator investigates Facebook over exposed passwords

Technology /

Ireland’s privacy regulator says it’s investigating Facebook over the social media giant’s recent revelation that it had left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed. Interested in Facebook? Add Facebook as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Facebook news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The Irish Data Protection Commission said

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AP-NORC Poll: Many blame drug firms for opioid crisis

Lifestyle /

About two-thirds of Americans believe drug companies are to blame for the opioid crisis, although nearly as many hold drug users themselves responsible, a new poll finds. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed many people also fault doctors who prescribed opioid pain pills and government officials who haven’t done enough to

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Mollie King: Dyslexia made reading aloud ‘scary and intimidating’

Entertainment /

Image copyright Getty Images “The most scary, intimidating time,” that’s how Mollie King remembers having to stand up and read out loud in school. “I would always try and make an excuse to leave the classroom,” the BBC Radio 1 presenter tells Newsbeat. Thanks to her teacher spotting there was a problem she was tested

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