It's not opium farming but cooking meth that the district of Ghoryan quickly earned a reputation for, with traffickers buying the drug from locals at phenomenally low prices.
The Justice Department says it will support local officials in hundreds of lawsuits against manufacturers and distributors of powerful opioid painkillers that are fueling the drug abuse crisis in the US.
A study from the UK showed that sleep reductions led to impaired responses to bacteria and viruses, more inflammation, higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol and other biomarkers related to pain, fatigue and poor health.
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