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Back then, doctors churned out prescriptions for opioidbased painkillers. And pharmaceutical firms pushed products with aggressive marketing strategies. Sales of prescription painkillers quadrupled in the first years of the 21st century and at the same time, the drugs got stronger. In 2015, 33,000 people in the u. S. Died from overdoses. A year later, 42,000 suffered the same fate. The u. S. Governments tactic so far has been to toughen controls on prescriptions driving many people with dependencies to turn to street drugs like heroin. Its estimated over two million americans are now opioid ad...

Very much part of the u. K. Which has decided to leave the european union. But its still not clear what exactly brexit will mean in practical terms. Negotiations between london and brussels are proving difficult, with one of the main sticking points being the right of e. U. Citizens to live and work in the u. K. After brexit. Some businesses in scotland say some businesses in scotland say it will be very hard to survive if they can no longer rely on hiring workers from the continent. And european nationals who have lived in the u. K. For years are afraid they might be forced to leave. While mo...

Nationalist protestors even stormed parliament to attack newly elected officials. Many of the young people in this small balkan state refuse to accept this. Reporter irina sterijovic is a young theater director in the capital skopje, and shes very worried about the nationalists she sees on the streets of her city. Theyve been demonstrating every day for 2. 5 months now, carrying old and new macedonian flags through the city center, past her favorite cafe. Skopjes young liberals gather here. Theyre horrified at the visible surge in nationalism. Irina you can see on their faces, you know. They a...

Detained in a leipzig jail on suspicion of planning to bomb an airport in berlin. Three days later, the syrian refugee, who was thought to have connections to socalled islamic state, committed suicide in his cell. Albakrs death is being viewed as the latest in a series of blunders on the part of German Authorities and its a huge loss for security officials, a potentially important source of terror intelligence is now gone. Our report follows the wouldbe jihadists trail to find out what went wrong. I have fallen in love with jihad. And my religion demands that i protect the servants of god. Ame...

Nation has a lot of work to do to prove that it merits such a status. To highlight its efforts at reform and at the request of the u. S. , albania has agreed to recital thousands of members of an Iranian Opposition group known as the peoples mujahedin. For years, theyve been housed in the u. S. Backed cant in iraq. Our reporter went to the albanian capital to meet a former member. Ehsan bidi is keeping a low profile in a toronto tirana suburb. He claims to have been threatened by his forme comrades, militant fighters from the peoples mujahedin of iran or mek. They do not want him to talk about...