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    JT Weekly- Other Headlines of Interest

    By Mithra Salmassi
    May 2016

    Fentanyl: The new heroin, but deadlier (CNN)

    Blog: Talking With Teenagers About Marijuana (The New York Times)

    Opinion: Drug Addiction Cannot Be Decoupled from Mental Illness (The New York Times)

    Her fiancé gave her heroin. She overdosed. Does that make him a murderer? (The Washington Post)

    Legal Pot’s Life on the Black Market (The Atlantic)

    Opinion: The public scorns the addiction treatment Prince was going to try. They shouldn’t. (The Washington Post)

    Former FDA head: Opioid epidemic one of “great mistakes of modern medicine” (CBS News)

    ‘You Want a Description of Hell?’ OxyContin’s 12-Hour Problem (Los Angeles Times)

    In Prince’s Age Group, Risk Of Opioid Overdose Climbs (NPR)

    Opinion: Should Opioid Training for Doctors Be Mandatory? (The New York Times)