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During the spring, April Showers can wreak havoc on all outdoor sports. However, on a cold, wet and windy weekend, Duke’s track and field team still showed out.

​Meet the artists leading the genre that’s taking Nigeria’s contemporary Christian music scene by storm.

Since last November, New York’s sites together have served more than 2,100 people using drugs nearly 50,000 times. No one has died there.

Black and Latino poll respondents were more likely to say that addressing the city’s opioid epidemic should be a top priority than their white counterparts.

President Biden has turned a blind eye to a disturbing twist in the fentanyl crisis. More than 70,000 Americans have been killed yet we don’t track the safe injection site's efficacy.

Your whole brain reward system gets hijacked. your prefrontal cortex is taken out of the loop. and youll do anything. >> what do you think about safe injection sites? obviously senator graham does it seem to support them. >> i mean, back in medical school in the 70s, the idea of methadone seemed like a wild idea. but slowly, it became accepted. and medicaid does this treatment. i had an issue with that at one point. now it fully accepted. i think we have to talk about all of those things. >> sam...

And dopesickness is absolutely miserable. and what happens? your whole brain reward system gets hijacked. your prefrontal cortex is taken out of the loop. and youll do anything. >> what do you think about safe injection sites? obviously, senator graham does it seem to support them. >> i mean, back in medical school in the 70s, the idea of methadone seemed like a wild idea. but slowly, it became accepted. and medicaid does this treatment. i had an issue with that at one point. now it fully accept...

People living near a safe injection site in East Harlem say there has been a dramatic increase in open drug use around the facility.

Advocates say they hope to see the money spent on evidence-based treatment options, including overdose prevention centers.