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CONCORD -- A Massachusetts man will serve nearly four years in federal prison...
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CONCORD -- A Massachusetts man will serve nearly four years in federal prison...
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – Recently the Fort St. John Action Team (CAT) released their Public Service Announcement (PSA) ‘Closer to home’ and film, ‘It’s here, The Opioid Crisis in Fort St. John’ in collaboration with Eagle Vision Video Productions Ltd. The ‘Close to Home’ PSA...
Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Market report aims to analyze market opportunities and risks in global Fentanyl Transdermal Patches industry. This report offers a detailed view of market opportunity by end user segments, product segments, sales channels, key countries, and import / export dynamics. It details market...
WHATELY, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- A Franklin County man is facing federal charges after...
Alan Slatas, whose daughter Jillian died from an overdose at the age of 26, launched a nonprofit aimed at promoting and raising money for alternative treatment programs. — Gabrielle ManninoAlan Slatas doesn’t like the word “clean” to describe a person who’s battling addiction. “They’re not...
U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Michigan) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) are co-sponsoring...
by: Ariana Tourangeau, Danielle Eaton Posted: Jun 12, 2019 / 01:28 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 12, 2019 / 02:12 PM EDT KANSAS CITY, Kansas (WWLP) – A South Deerfield man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly sold counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl in Kansas. According to...
Published: 6/12/2019 1:51:18 PM KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday in Kansas charges a Massachusetts man with...
A registered nurse fired for stealing opiates and shooting up fentanyl in a hospital washroom should get another crack at showing why she should get her job back, Divisional Court has ruled.At issue, the court ruled, was whether the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in...
While statewide data showed improvement, Washington County saw an apparent uptick in overdose...
TAMPA —A federal jury has found a 33-year-old Pinellas County man guilty of...
TORONTO — A registered nurse fired for stealing opiates and shooting up fentanyl in a hospital washroom should get another crack at showing why she should get her job back, Divisional Court has ruled.At issue, the court ruled, was whether the Royal Victoria Regional Health...
A City of Kawartha Lakes man faces impaired, drug charges following a collision on Tuesday.Kawartha Lakes OPP say an officer responded to a two-vehicle collision on Pigeon Lake Road east of Lindsay. READ MORE: OPP lay charges in 2018 death of Sebright...
Fourteen people have been indicted on charges that allege they trafficked heroin, cocaine, and...
Abruptly, last week, I wound up in an ambulance. Something in my hip had gone sideways, and was delivering a lesson on pain.As we rolled up to the emergency ward, one of the paramedics leaned in: "They might not get to you until tomorrow morning,...
Alyssa Burgart and James Lozada, Opinion contributors Published 6:00 a.m. ET June 12, 2019 CLOSEWe are ashamed that our specialty board certified William Husel. Applicants with serious...
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MEDIA COURTHOUSE — A Colwyn man already serving state time for heroin distribution...
Heroin and Fentanyl were found in an airport passenger's computer bag during a search for explosives at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, according to court paperwork.Phoenix police report that on June 4, a Delta Airlines passenger heading to Seattle checked in his luggage at Sky...
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(AP) – A new study shoots down the notion that medical marijuana laws can prevent opioid overdose deaths, challenging a favorite talking point of legal pot advocates. Researchers repeated an analysis that sparked excitement years ago. READ STUDY HERE The previous work linked medical marijuana laws to slower...
Rates of deaths from suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol have reached an all-time high in the United States, but some states have been hit far harder than others, according to a report released Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund.The report examined data in all 50 states...
PHOENIX — Heroin and Fentanyl were found in an airport passenger's computer bag during a search for explosives at Sky Harbor Airport, according to court paperwork.Phoenix police report that on June 4, a Delta Airlines passenger heading to Seattle checked in his luggage at Sky...
Shares from opioid maker Insys Therapeutics Inc. will be delisted from the Nasdaq on June 19, the company said in a government filing on Tuesday.The news follows the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Monday, which was filed one week after it agreed to...
Chinese-made drugs 100 times stronger than morphine flood Australia as authorities warn the country is on the cusp of a deadly new opioids crisis Authorities warned synthetic opioids are being mailed in mass...
Naloxone is an opioid-overdose antidote that if widely used could help stem the tide of the more than 130 Americans who die each day of drug overdoses. The drug has no potential for abuse and is harmless to those who are not experiencing an opioid...
While statewide data showed improvement, Washington County saw an apparent uptick in overdose...
Mike Pompeo / Getty Images BY: Charles Fain Lehman Follow @CharlesFLehman June 11, 2019 5:00 pmSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the United States is making progress in an increasingly global drug war, although Chinese drug gangs and the "Maduro mafia" are posing major barriers to...
Michael Smothers GateHouse Media Illinois Tuesday Jun 11, 2019 at 3:44 PM Jun 11, 2019 at 5:45 PM A Washington man will serve a 10-year prison term for supplying heroin laced with a deadly additive that combined to kill a Pekin man two years ago.Tayrod Fields, 25, accepted that sentence when he pleaded guilty Monday to drug-induced homicide,...
Huron County OPP say they have put a “significant dent” in the local drug supply after a traffic stop netted nearly $21,000 worth of fentanyl.A 38-year-old South Huron man faces a raft of charges, including two counts of possession for the purposes of trafficking.Just after...
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A Madison woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reckless homicide charge for supplying...
CLOSEA man and woman from Milwaukee have been charged with giving the controlled substance fentanyl to a Brookfield man, causing his death in 2018. Kenyon Q. Pugh, 32, and Simona L. Ramirez, 43, were charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on June 10 with first-degree reckless homicide. If...
Staff reports Tuesday Jun 11, 2019 at 12:39 PM GROVELAND — A Steuben County man was arrested by Livingston County Sheriff's Deputies after a traffic stop and investigation on Interstate 390.On May 21, Deputy Shawn Whitford was assigned to the Sheriff’s Office Operation Safe Interstate initiative when he stopped a vehicle for a traffic...
The company resolved its case with the US Justice Department for $225m (€198m), which saw a subsidiary of the company plead guilty to five counts of mail fraud.The actual charges against the company were that it had used ‘speaker programs’ as a “vehicle to pay...
In the bankruptcy court filing, Insys Chief Executive Andrew Long said sales of Subsys, a fentanyl spray, have declined substantially. That drop, coupled with more than 1,000 lawsuits by municipal governments seeking to hold the company responsible for the opioid epidemic, was more than the...
A spike in opioid overdoses and deaths in Peterborough, Ont., is prompting a call for the Ford government to do more to tackle the crisis. Over the first weekend in June, police responded to 19 drug overdoses, which resulted in two deaths over a 72-hour period. A veteran of...
In early 2018, the F.B.I. created the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team, or J-Code, with more than a dozen special agents and staff. Europol has its own dedicated dark web team. And authorities everywhere have broadened their focus beyond just the administrators overseeing the...
The numbers are stark - year to date there have been 45 fentanyl-related drug overdose deaths in Hartford.Police say that’s almost double the number from a year ago. And now fentanyl has been found in cocaine and crack cocaine, in addition to heroin.This has local,...
The family of the Woodstock teen who’s become the local face of the deadly opioid epidemic is pushing for harsher penalties for dealers.The Mackay family launched an online petition late last week urging government leaders to pass legislation that would sharply increase prison sentences for...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — In recent years, more Minnesotans have died from opioid overdoses than from car crashes. The numbers are staggering and the stories all too familiar to the agency on the epidemic’s front lines. The Drug Enforcement Administration is tasked with trying to control the...
Fentanyl, cash found YOUNGSTOWN Police late Friday found a large amount of fentanyl and $3,644 cash after stopping a driver at South Osborn and California...
Drug overdose deaths in Colorado have fallen for the first time in six years, but experts caution that it doesn’t mean the overdose epidemic is winding down. In 2018, 974 people died of a drug overdose in Colorado, down from the state’s record of 1,012 deaths...
Hartford — As Hartford deals with a major spike in fatal drug overdoses and the possible emergence of fentanyl-laced crack cocaine, officials in eastern Connecticut are keeping a watchful eye.Forty-five people have died by overdose in the capital city so far this year, compared to...
Two years ago, the drug company Insys Therapeutics posted a quarter-billion dollars in annual sales. But the Arizona-based firm's fortunes plummeted so far that on Monday its leaders declared bankruptcy. It was the latest fall-out from the nation's prescription...