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Senator Jacky Rosen toured the Reno USPS Processing Center and hosted a roundtable discussion on Tuesday about the fentanyl crisis with local law enforcement and advocates.
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A new report shows that death rates for people under 40 are surging across the United States, including parts of the Mountain West.
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One bill to address fentanyl-related overdoses in Nevada failed to advance Friday, but a second bill survived with significant changes.
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Purple Politics Nevada is KUNR’s weekly show about the 2023 Nevada Legislative Session. In this week’s episode, host Lucia Starbuck speaks with Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford about the dangers of fentanyl, why he wants to increase punishments for trafficking the opioid, and his response to the concerns regarding overcriminalization.
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The Nevada Legislature passed a major deadline on Friday, where all bills must have passed out of their first committee. Those that didn’t are dead for the most part. Now, they’ll need to be passed by both houses with identical language and signed or vetoed by Nevada’s Republican governor to become law.
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Purple Politics Nevada is KUNR’s weekly show about the 2023 Nevada Legislative Session, which spans 120 days and reached its halfway point. In this week’s episode, host Lucia Starbuck checks in with Democratic Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Republican Senate Minority Leader Heidi Seevers Gansert about bills to improve health care and toughen punishments for trafficking fentanyl.
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Three statewide elected officials in Nevada are proposing bills about election workers, criminalizing opioids, and establishing financial bonds for babies. They spoke with reporters on Thursday about their goals for the 2023 Nevada Legislative Session.
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Read or listen to the news headlines for Thursday, April 28, 2022.
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Deadly overdoses from the synthetic opioid fentanyl are a growing problem. The drug is useful for doctors, but now it’s showing up all over. There are ways to test for it, but in some cases, that’s illegal, too. The Mountain West News Bureau’s Madelyn Beck explains.
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Sheriff’s deputies in Washoe County, Nev., responded to two fentanyl overdoses in a 12-hour span earlier this month.In one case, a baby who was exposed to…