Dr. Gordon Smith, WVUMORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The implications behind the 122 percent increase in fentanyl-related deaths between 2015 and 2017 suggest the opioid problem is “only getting worse,” according to WVU School of Public Health researcher Dr. Gordon Smith.As this increase occurred, the death toll...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Mission Valley residents concerned after seeing a red warning sign on their neighbor's door, reading "fentanyl activity used for the illegal manufacturing or storage of fentanyl," leading them to believe a drug dealer was busted in the Presidio Place complex.The sign...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT BOSTON — A New Bedford man was indicted Wednesday on federal drug charges, the U.S. Attorney's office said.Davaun Oswald, 22, is charged in indictments out of U.S. District Court, Boston, with one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl and...
A tentative trial date of Oct. 9 has been set for Jason R. Willoughby, 34, of Vineyard Haven, who was indicted by a Dukes County grand jury last October on felony charges in a case that involves a fatal overdose from the powerful drug fentanyl. On...
Shiloh S. Jackson (Photo: Submitted)TOLEDO — A Marion man guilty of selling fentanyl will spend less than three years in prison, a federal judge ruled this week.Shiloh S. Jackson, 30, of Marion, was charged with distribution of fentanyl last year in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
B.C.’s top health official has issued a strongly worded report that could set the province on a radical new path for how it responds to drug use and addiction.“This PHO [provincial health officer] Special Report examines the criminalization of people who use drugs in B.C.,...
Three area men, two of whom were extradited from Albania, are facing charges for...
Chicago police and the Drug Enforcement Administration were working together Wednesday to investigate a rash of at least 17...