Concert venues ripe with drugs

Lanre Akomolafe, a local Tucson entertainment filmer and photographer, sees it now more than ever. “I was at Mad Decent Block Party, a music festival in Phoenix, Arizona, last year and a man fell to the ground and started seizing right in front of me,” says Akomolafe. Akomolafe brought medical personnel to help. Later, Akomolafe…

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Methamphetamines, not opioids, top threat to Arizona

Prescription opioids in Arizona accounted for 482 deaths in 2016, but the top threat to the state remains the presence of illegal meth. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration in Phoenix identifies methamphetamines as the No. 1 drug threat in Arizona over opioids due to the increase in seizures seen by enforcement personnel in the state,…

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