The Opioid Crisis Is Now Being Tracked with Wastewater
Levels of opioids and other drugs in sewage could help public health authorities home in on drug use and target treatment efforts
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Levels of opioids and other drugs in sewage could help public health authorities home in on drug use and target treatment efforts
COVID-19, mpox and many other pathogens are detectable in wastewater, but public health officials are still figuring out how best to use those data.
A 37-year-old Little Rock man accused of sexually assaulting a troubled teenage girl he had befriended was cleared of wrongdoing at trial on Thursday after his lawyer, while acknowledging the accuser was a sympathetic figure, denounced her as an admitted liar who once tried to poison her mother, who has since been murdered.
The first-degree murder trial of a 23-year-old North Little Rock man accused of killing a 58-year-old man who complained that the defendant was being stingy with a marijuana cigar ended Thursday with a hung jury.