Seven Days of Heroin Cincinnati Enquirer Packed courtrooms, police chases and repeated calls for help with possible overdoses are the consequences of rampant heroin use in Ohio and Kentucky. The Cincinnati Enquirer sent out a team of reporters, photographers and videographers to document what an ordinary week looks like in communities battling the opioid epidemic. In just one week, they found 180 overdoses. Tracking America's Criminal Cops Vice News A researcher's new police crime database offers what Vice News calls the most comprehensive look ever at how often American cops are arrested. It shows 1,000 officer arrests on average each year between 2005 and 2012. Misdemeanor assault and driving under the influence were the most commonly charged offenses. Forcible fondling and forcible rape also made the top 10. Lawsuit Reveals Risk of Antidepressants in Older Americans New York Times Antidepressants warn of suicide risks for patients under 25, but now a lawsuit has renewed concerns that older adults may also be at greater risk -- and they use the drugs far more than young people. Wendy Dolin's husband was 57 when he threw himself in front of a train soon after starting a Paxil generic. A jury awarded her $3 million. Hackers Weaponize Artificial Intelligence Gizmodo The days of the human hacker pursuing an individual target are likely already behind us. Artificial intelligence is learning how to accomplish sophisticated hacks more quickly. So now security experts are looking to develop their own "weaponized" AI systems to counter cybercrime. It's an AI arms race. How Russia Undercuts North Korean Sanctions Washington Post Even though the U.N. ratcheted up trade sanctions on North Korea again, Russian smugglers are using front companies to ship diesel and other fuel into the nation, undercutting reductions from China. Washington has some leverage, though, because the illicit Russian trades rely on U.S. dollars as currency. How Government Almost Killed the Cocktail Reason When Americans repealed Prohibition, drinkers bellied up to bars for one of the few cocktails they remembered: an old fashioned. But the fruity punch they got would have been unrecognizable 20 years prior. Criminals had taken over the bartending trade and destroyed pre-Prohibition cocktail culture. Stop romanticizing the speakeasy era, this boozy dive into history suggests. Even if you could order a bee's knees, life wasn't really the bee's knees. |