Drug-related deaths have continued to climb in King County, with fatal overdoses involving methamphetamine and fentanyl on the rise, according to Public Health — Seattle & King County. Last year, 415 King County residents died from drug or alcohol use — up from...
CAPE CORAL The Cape Coral firefighters who were exposed to fentanyl on Tuesday were cleared to return to work. The incident happened on Tuesday, when four Cape Coral firefighters were exposed to lethal opioid, fentanyl, while responding to a call Tuesday morning. It happened after a fire...
CLOSEBuy PhotoFentanyl test strip package purchased in Canada. Individual strips cost $1 apiece. (Photo: Enquirer file photo)Hamilton County Public Health is now offering opioid users a way to test their drugs for the deadly synthetic opiate fentanyl.The health department's mobile syringe exchange program, The Exchange Project,...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is warning of legal chaos and lost drug trafficking cases if Congress doesn’t pass a law banning deadly fentanyl lookalikes within the next few months. A temporary ban on fentanyl copycats is set to expire in February, reopening a loophole...
Six individuals were sentenced this week for their alleged roles in a fentanyl...
Four Firefighters exposed to Fentanyl after responding to a call in Cape Coral ...
The Department of Justice is calling on Congress to enact into law a temporary order from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classifying fentanyl-like drugs as controlled substances. The 2018 order, which closed a legal loophole in U.S. drug laws that make Americans vulnerable to what...
It is the most potent – and most deadly – of opioid drugs. Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. David Williams, says in the first four months of this year there was a 50 per cent increase in deaths in Ontario...
High Wire is Maia Szalavitz's reported opinion column on drugs and drug policy. As Facebook rolls out its campaign with the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids to “Stop Opioid Silence” and other initiatives to fight the overdose crisis, some stalwart advocates in the...