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Jan Hoffman

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Uganda New York Times world
18 Oct 2019
CLEVELAND — A mayor of a small West Virginia city brought to its knees by opioids and representatives of large cities and counties left reeling by the epidemic are gathering in federal court here Friday to sit side by side with chief executives from the country’s largest drug distributors. Along with four state attorneys general, they were summoned by Judge Dan A. Polster, who is trying to wrest a far-reaching, last-minute agreement to resolve thousands of lawsuits before the start of the fir...
Judge Summons Drug CEOs for Talks on Sweeping Opioid Settlement
Uganda New York Times world
19 Dec 2018
Vaping is surging among American adolescents. According to one national survey, 3.6 million middle and high school students used e-cigarettes in 2018. Another found that the rise in vaping from 2017 to 2018 was the sharpest for any substance the researchers had investigated in the project’s 44-year history.