The Daily Populous

The widespread availability and use of heroin has created a major public health crisis in the United States.

[ 21 ] All costs were converted to 2015 dollars using the Consumer Price Index (CPI); full cost updates are shown in S1 Table .

Even with a comparatively narrow perspective, heroin use disorder exacts a tremendous cost to society at $50,799 per user. »

Theresa May looks set to launch wide-ranging internet regulation and plans to fundamentally change how technology works despite not having won a majority.

Those powers – which include regulation of the internet and forcing internet companies to let spies read everyone's private communications – were a key part of the Conservative campaign, which failed to score a majority in the House of Commons.

Experts have warned that those plans for internet regulation could in fact make life easier for terrorists. »

Scientists and engineers from the University of Bath have developed biodegradable cellulose microbeads from a sustainable source that could potentially replace harmful plastic ones that contribute to ocean pollution.

It is estimated that a single shower can result in 100,000 plastic particles entering the ocean, contributing to the eight million tonnes of plastic that enters the ocean every year.

As a result of recent campaigning by environmental groups, the UK Government has pledged to ban plastic microbeads in 2017. »

From the gallery, the Sheik—the real-life Hossein Khosrow Vaziri—narrowed his eyes and contemplated 38-year-old Charles Warren Reynolds, rising nervously from the defendant’s table.

When the judge asked him to address the court, Reynolds broke into tears and apologized for the murder of the Sheik’s 27-year-old daughter, Marissa.

With their mixed Iranian, German and Scandinavian ancestry, Marissa and her sisters, Tanya and Nikki, were striking. »