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Jackson County Public Health is rolling out a series of vending machines that will contain free health items, like fentanyl test strips, first aid kits, condoms, hand sanitizer, and Naloxone, the life-saving drug that can reverse an opioid overdose.
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Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
The second episode of Euphoria’s third season finds Rue basking in the glow of God’s favor and settling into her new life working for the strip-club proprietor Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), who tasks her with scooping pig slop and covering up evidence of a dancer’s accidental overdose.
—Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
The General Pharmaceutical Council has highlighted the risk of overdose following the death of a 17-year-old girl in 2023, who died after taking propranolol along with other pain-relief medication.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 22 Apr. 2026
Prince died on April 21, 2016, at his Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota, at the age of 57, due to an accidental fentanyl overdose.
—Preezy Brown, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
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Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2026
The second episode of Euphoria’s third season finds Rue basking in the glow of God’s favor and settling into her new life working for the strip-club proprietor Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), who tasks her with scooping pig slop and covering up evidence of a dancer’s accidental overdose.
—Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
The General Pharmaceutical Council has highlighted the risk of overdose following the death of a 17-year-old girl in 2023, who died after taking propranolol along with other pain-relief medication.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 22 Apr. 2026
Prince died on April 21, 2016, at his Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota, at the age of 57, due to an accidental fentanyl overdose.
—Preezy Brown, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026
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Back then, online purchases hadn’t been invented, experiences were less curated, and the World Cup was regarded as a festival of soccer rather than an opportunity to extract consumer surplus.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Of course, Indiana closed fiscal year 2025 with a $676 million surplus and billions in reserves, which makes these sorts of decisions possible.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
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Other oil companies paid an excess of $3 million in addition to the crossing fee to accelerate their passage in the face of soaring oil prices.—
Alma Solis,
Fortune,
24 Apr. 2026
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This spike is a Herbig–Haro object (HH 399, specifically) — a jet of material launched by a growing protostar accreting too much matter and ejecting the excess along its rotational axis.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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And an offensive tackle seems like overkill, given how much the Chiefs have already invested recently in their offensive line.—
Jesse Newell,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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In this telling, the war’s opening act was a literal overkill.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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Men’s letters to Shere overflow with complex feelings.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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Effects ripple beyond rural areas When hospitals close, nearby facilities absorb the overflow and often face less competition.—
Daniel R. George,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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Both men marveled at the surfeit of shovels stacked by the door.—
Howard Halle,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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The President and the explorer share a few traits, including a surfeit of self confidence.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2026
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Denver has an oversupply of apartments right now, thanks to a flurry of developers breaking ground when interest rates were low amid the pandemic.—
Thomas Gounley,
Denver Post,
18 Apr. 2026
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The problem is exacerbated because retail chocolate prices are still high, so consumer demand is low, and the industry has too much manufacturing capacity, creating an oversupply.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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But there’s an uncertainty of around 20% on each of those figures (and, correspondingly, for the redshift as well), as a lower-mass merger that was closer or a higher-mass merger that was more distant would produce a signal with roughly the same amplitude.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Apr. 2026
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In recent papers, researchers have bootstrapped the Veneziano amplitude, the formula for the scattering of two open strings, as the unique solution that follows from various sets of starting assumptions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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