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News A state-by-state breakdown of the recent National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program report. ...
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News A state-by-state breakdown of the recent National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program report. ...
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, along the eastern borders of Kentucky and Ohio, sits Huntington, West Virginia, a place so consumed by the opioid epidemic it has been crowned "the Overdose Capital of America." At its worst, people here were dying from drug abuse at...
At a press conference in Beijing Monday, Liu Yuejin, deputy director of the China National Narcotics Control Commission, said that the number of cannabis users in China had grown by more than 25% in 2018, rising to about 24,000 people."In two years, we have found...
Simultaneous raids on two homes in Bridgewater and Brockton on Friday led to the seizure of 157 grams of heroin, $54,000 in suspected drug money, three illegal handguns and two suspects, according to police.The W.E.B. Major Crimes and Drug Task Force executed search warrants...
Travis Rieder has bleak outlook on the current state of America’s overdose crisis. The author of In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle With Opioids told the Straight that not only have authorities failed to reduce deaths, they’re also badly hurting people with their attempts.In a...
HOOKSETT, NH — A local man is facing a drug charge after being arrested due, initially, to motor vehicle complaints about a driver he was with on Friday night. Mark Gagnon, 39, of Concord, was arrested on June 14, 2019, and charged with possession of...
Chronic Pain Advocate Jeff Edney listened/watched (when the feed was working) to the FDA meetings last week, it spawned many questions in his mind that chronic pain advocates should have in mind when they discuss or meet with Congressional, federal or state policy or state...
Two Connecticut men were arrested in New York, accusing of traveling between Connecticut and Saratoga County to sell drugs.The Saratoga County Sheriff's Office arrested 39-year-old Taron Stokes of Derby and 56-year-old Edward Cavallaro of North Haven Thursday. The pair is accused of traveling from Connecticut...
HBO’s latest series puts its characters through exaggerated adolescent antics, with little substance to show for it. (Mild plot spoilers ahead.) If you struggled to understand what Euphoria was about from its ads—an electric mix of neon, artsy camera angles, and sexy teens on drugs—watching the first...
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission today released the seventh report of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, revealing that Queensland, together with South Australia, reported the highest average regional consumption of fentanyl nationally. Across the nine sites monitored in the state in December 2018—three capital city...
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission today released the seventh report of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, revealing New South Wales reported the highest average capital city and regional consumption of cocaine in the country. Across the eight sites monitored in the state in December 2018—three...
Joe DiFazio The Patriot Ledger jldifazio Sunday Jun 16, 2019 at 5:11 PM QUINCY — Two men are facing drug charges after a three month long investigation by the Quincy Police Drug Control Unit into a drug trafficking organization. Leurys A. Feliz, 38, of Quincy and a Boston man police said...
ALTON—Clad in grey shorts, Pedro Ruiz delivered a message to Steve King during...
news, latest-news, canberra drugs, drugs, wasterwater test, prescription opioids, opioids, cocaine, drug tests, drug tests canberraThe use of opioids like fentanyl and oxycodone in Canberra is among the highest in the nation, a new report has found. Analysis of wastewater in the ACT from the...
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Urban Victorians consume more heroin than other Australians, while the state’s regions have the highest use of MDMA and oxycodone.The figures are in the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission’s seventh report on the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, which shows Victoria has the highest average capital city...
Idaho Gov. Brad Little is hoping a new advisory group will provide some...
CLOSE Andy Hopson had dreams of building a recovery home with his son Dakota. That never happened. Mandi Wright, Detroit Free PressDETROIT - Is it love?Is it guilt?Is it a little – or maybe a lot – of both that Andy Hopson...
In April, the Saskatchewan RCMP displayed crystal meth seized as part of an investigation into the criminal drug trade. Meth seizures, crime and deaths have been on the rise across the province. (Morgan Modjeski/The Saskatoon S / Saskatoon As methamphetamine numbers skyrocket and the death toll climbs,...
By TOM LATEK, Kentucky Today FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) - Spend a couple of hours and learn how to save a life. According to Kentucky’s Office of Drug Control Policy, in 2017 there were 1,565 fatal drug overdose cases in the state, 52 percent that involved Fentanyl. During a...
Published: 6/15/2019 6:16:41 PM EASTHAMPTON – Police officers responding to a breaking and entering incident Friday required medical treatment after...
Exploitation flashback: Promotional art for the 1936 drugs-and-sex film “Reefer Madness.”Everett CollectionHBO finally has its own “Reefer Madness.” Much press has been devoted to “Euphoria,” the premium cable network’s attempt to catch up to Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” by producing a series that captures the swirling...
Sheriff, police chief support use of Narcan Local law enforcement confiscates heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs of abuse in a variety of forms including powdered...
Poppy cultivation and heroin production remain at record-high levels in Mexico, according to the United States government. The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) said in a statement yesterday that an annual U.S. government estimate found that the area of land dedicated to poppy cultivation...
The stereotype of an illicit drug operation is that of some ramshackle, run-down house with boards nailed over the windows. The truth, these days, is far different. Perhaps even a little surprising. Some drug rings are actually spending their days manufacturing, storing and...
After a breakup in 2008, a cousin gave Ashlee Krichmar, then 20, a Percocet. She’d never much liked them in the past — they made her sick — but that day the college student majoring in business management took the pill. “It numbed all the emotions...
CLOSEDetail of exterior of courthouse (Photo: Comstock, Getty Images/Comstock Images)Muskingum County Court of Common PleasJudge Mark C. FleegleJohnathan S. Harrier, 28, South Zanesville, pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine and possession of marijuana. Bond was continued at $50,000James E. Fraunfelter III, 42, Somerset, pleaded guilty to...
LISBON — A secret indictment was served at the county jail this week on Tiffany D. Herron, 34, of East Liverpool, charged with possession of a fentanyl-related compound. According to court documents, Herron did knowingly obtain, possess or use a fentanyl-related compound in the county...
A 40-year-old Akron man has admitted to leading a conspiracy to bring large...
Global Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Market research report provides in depth analysis of the industry along with important statistics and facts. With the help of this information, stakeholders can plan their business strategies.The global Fentanyl Transdermal Patches market is valued at million US$ in 2018 and...
Health experts are concerned about a potential HIV outbreak among opioid users on Long Island amid a shift in recent years from prescription drugs such as OxyContin to injectable heroin and fentanyl. ...
The U.S. State Department reports that at least two Iranian military-controlled facilities have researched chemical agents with incapacitating effects, and Iranian research papers cite the potential military uses of Pharmaceutical-Based Agents. PBAs include, among others, the synthetic opioid fentanyl and the more powerful carfentanil. These powerful...
An early-morning raid in Lee County led to the arrest of four people on drug charges.The Lee County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team on Thursday carried out a search warrant in the 4000 block of Lee Road 175 in Salem, said sheriff’s Capt. Van Jackson....
Mealand Ragland-Hudgins, Murfreesboro Daily News Journal Published 2:39 p.m. CT June 14, 2019 | Updated 4:34 p.m. CT June 14, 2019CLOSE Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and...
TPD: Officers find over 150 fentanyl pills during traffic stop ...
A North Carolina man agreed to plead guilty in connection with what authorities...
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Two men have been arrested in connection with a fatal heroin overdose that killed a Mount Pocono man Tuesday night in apartment 20 at Oakview Terrace, a condo development.Pocono Mountain Regional Police said Ronald Ahrens, 47, of Blakeslee, and Jonathan Nesbit, 27, of Pocono Summit, were...
COLUMBUS (WBNS) – A new wrongful death lawsuit filed against Mount Carmel Health System and Dr. William Husel involves a previously unidentified patient.The lawsuit also names two other physicians, a nurse and pharmacist alleging that this patient’s death was hastened by a fatal dose of...
AUGUSTA — Bail for a New York City man arrested on charges that he trafficked in cocaine and a mix of heroin and fentanyl was increased from $30,000 to $50,000 Friday after a state prosecutor noted the man has six prior felony drug convictions on...
Any sense of closure for family and friends in the death of Shawn Kelly Jr. will have wait at least another two weeks as one of the accused in his fentanyl-heroin overdose refused to leave his jail cell Friday morning. Tahir Ali, 55,...
By latest count, some 109,089 men and women are sleeping on the streets of major cities in California, Oregon, and Washington. The homelessness crisis in these cities has generated headlines and speculation about “root causes.” Progressive political activists allege that tech companies have inflated housing...
OSSIPEE — An Ossipee man was sentenced June 6 in Carroll County Superior...
At least 210 pounds of hard drugs like fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin were seized in Nogales, Arizona, over the past week by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The seizures occurred during multiple vehicle inspections worth an estimated total of $1 million. The first series...
The bankruptcy filing comes just days after Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay a $225 million settlement for the unlawful marketing of its fentanyl spray. Insys Therapeutics admitted to unlawfully promoting its fentanyl spray, Subsys, but it is now seeking bankruptcy protection, which could lessen the...
Sanctions Bill Supported By Sen. Gary Peters, Others “We have to act quickly and we have to act...