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As British Columbians using drugs alone continues to be one of the biggest cruxes in the ongoing overdose crisis, health officials are hoping take-home drugs will help save lives. Both Interior Health and Vancouver Coastal Health have announced a partnership with the BC...
It was that easy: hundreds of deadly fentanyl patches were simply sent to the Toronto drug dealer in the mail.The two envelopes from Belgium were stuffed with 469 fentanyl patches with a street value estimated between $46,900 to $140,700.But unfortunately for their intended recipient, a...
FRONT ROYAL – A grand jury indicted a Warren County woman Monday on...
NEW BEDFORD — A repeat drug dealer was found dangerous and ordered held without bail Tuesday, after a pre-trial detention hearing in New Bedford District Court.Edwin Collazo, 23, of 177 Arnold St., Apartment 2, New Bedford, will now be held for the next four months...
The signs started slowly with Anthony Mazzella. The athletic Coram teenager started missing wrestling practice. He became withdrawn, pulling away from his family. And then came the anger and the lies. ...
WILLIAMSPORT – A Columbia County man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for providing the heroin and fentanyl that killed a Bloomsburg man in 2016.The case “is an example how serious the opioid crisis is,” U.S. Middle District Judge Matthew W. Brann...
State Rep. Jason Perillo joined his fellow colleagues and concerned citizens and organizations at the state Capitol on Tuesday for a press conference to call on the Senate to pass a House bill to strengthen penalties on fentanyl. State Rep. Jason Perillo“This bills passed with bipartisan...
During an investigation of a suspicious person this morning, Old Saybrook Police Officer Christopher Palmieri was accidentally exposed to a drug suspected to be fentanyl. He was hospitalized and released.At 10:30 a.m., Old Saybrook Police Department (OSPD) officers responded to a report of a suspicious...
WICHITA – A man and woman from Great Bend have been charged in a 10-count indictment alleging possession or sale of cocaine, fentanyl, LSD, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.Iban Martinez-Enriquez, 21, Great Bend, Kan., and Kennedy Christine Beakey, 19, Great Bend,...
LEBANON, N.H. (AP) Police reports say the death of a patient at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was first treated as a possible homicide after employees raised concerns that family members had tampered with her pain medication. Authorities later determined the Jan. 27 death of Susan Massey,...
(HealthDay)—An increasing number of urine drug test (UDT) results positive for cocaine or methamphetamine are also positive for nonprescribed fentanyl, according to a study recently published in JAMA Network...
By Cammie Bellamy StarNews Staff Tuesday May 21, 2019 at 12:16 PM May 21, 2019 at 12:16 PM John Laws, 50, will serve minimum of nearly 6 years in prison WILMINGTON -- A Wilmington man who trafficked opioids here and in Winston-Salem pleaded guilty Monday.John Laws, 50, pleaded guilty in New Hanover County Superior Court to one count of trafficking opiates by...
Earlier this month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), reported that from 2015-2016 deaths from cocaine and psychostimulants (such as methamphetamine, Ritalin, dextroamphetamine) increased 52.4 percent and 33.3 percent respectively. In 2017, the CDC reported...
Research study evaluates safety of take-home drug checking kits Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), along with Interior Health, are collaborating on a new research project providing people who use substances with take-home drug checking kits to determine if...
Joe DiFazio The Patriot Ledger jldifazio Tuesday May 21, 2019 at 9:20 AM DEDHAM — A Norfolk County Grand Jury has indicted a Weymouth woman accused of dealing fentanyl.Melissa A. Edwards, 28, was indicted on trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl, distribution of fentanyl and two counts of possession of...
P.E.I. hospitals are now testing for fentanyl when patients come into an emergency department with an overdose.Doing that testing on-site means faster results and enables public health officials to see quickly if there's a spike in overdoses from fentanyl and alert the public of the risk.Fentanyl is...
Mexican cartels ship fentanyl-laced drugs to the United States from 13 states, according to the federal government. In a confidential report seen by the newspaper El Universal, the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) said that drug trafficking organizations send heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine laced with the synthetic...
CINCINNATI — Hamilton County saw a spike on overdoses over the weekend, prompting the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition to issue an alert. Following a documented spike in overdose deaths in Columbus, Hamilton County agencies began looking into numbers within Cincinnati, revealing the spike was not...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - There's currently a backlog in processing cases when it comes to tackling the opioid epidemic. The two U.S. Senators from Ohio are pushing for funding to help law enforcement in the Valley get...
Cassandra Stephenson, Jackson Sun Published 8:12 p.m. CT May 20, 2019 | Updated 8:31 p.m. CT May 20, 2019CLOSE Jeffrey Young, a Jackson nurse practitioner, was indicted on drug crimes in...
ALTON — A local man who allegedly helped a friend to buy fentanyl...
LEBANON — Authorities treated the January death of an East Corinth woman at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as a possible homicide after hospital employees raised concerns that family members had tampered with the woman’s pain medication, according to Lebanon Police Department reports.One nurse went as far...
Police said Jose R. Reyes sold heroin and fentanyl to a Spring Township man. ...
Last week, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey announced the arrest of a Bergen County doctor accused of distributing opioids without a legitimate medical reason, and falsifying medical records to cover it up.Authorities say Robert Delagente, 45, of Oakland, called himself the "El Chapo of Opioids"...
DSC_2Mega_PixFor the last 60 years the city of Baltimore has struggled with heroin addiction and this has led to increased crime and high levels of desperation. This is the same story within the city’s neighborhoods. However, things have changed in the city as users now...
An owner of Legends Bar and Grill is among two people indicted last...
]]> Photo by Emily Matthews | From left, Youngstown police Chief Robin Lees, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Mahoning County Sheriff Jerry Greene on Monday discuss a bill Brown is sponsoring that would help provide...
CLOSE Here's a look at how the court process works in York County, from arrest to a possible conviction. Sean Heisey, York Daily RecordThomas Markowski, 60, is charged with criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder of a law enforcement...
An Elgin man is held on $500,000 bail after he was charged with providing a fatal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin to 25-year-old Trevor Brubaker, who was found in his St. Charles Township house April 4. Jose R. Charles, 25, of the 600 block of Dixon Avenue,...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — A Fall River man charged by Dartmouth police with trafficking fentanyl was ordered held without bail Monday for a dangerousness hearing, according to court records.Justin D. Griffey, 35, of 193 Albion St., Apartment 1, was ordered held for a pre-trial...
Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Ohio (WKBN) - Ohio senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman...
WALTHAM, MA — District Attorney announced three Waltham related indictments handed down by the Grand Jury between January 17 and April 29, 2019. All three had to do with drugs. The announcement comes after data released by the Massachusetts public health data released Wednesday indicates...
DELAWARE COUNTY, PA — A Delaware County woman is facing charges after allegedly smuggling fentanyl in her vagina into the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in March. District Attorney Katayoun Copeland said Emily Dougherty, 25, of Ridley Park, has been charged with one felony count...
In this report, the Turkey Fentanyl Transdermal Patches market is valued at USD XX million in 2017 and is expected to reach USD XX million by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of XX% between 2017 and 2025. Turkey Fentanyl Transdermal Patches...
ThinkstockSeven people died in Hamilton County from apparent overdoses over a 24-hour period between May 18 and 19, officials with the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition said yesterday, and a total of 15 were admitted to emergency rooms.The...
CLOSE See what fentanyl is and how it's been tainting other drugs, causing overdose and death in unprecedented numbers. Terry DeMio, tdemio@enquirer.comSeven people died from suspected overdoses in Hamilton County over the weekend. Non-lethal overdoses spiked too, officials said.The...
NORFOLK (AP) — Deep inside a six-story, brown and tan state building in Norfolk, not far from the waterfront, you’ll find thousands of sealed bags stored in a locked vault. Each bag is labeled with a unique identification number and holds its own set of evidence...
HAMILTON COUNTY, Ohio -- Methamphetamine and cocaine laced with fentanyl are to blame for a recent spike in overdoses, according to Chief Tom Synan.A Public Health Alert issued Sunday said there had been an increase in 911 dispatch and emergency room visits last week. Fifteen...
—-Democratic Sen. Chris Coons claimed on Twitter that 61 percent of the overdose deaths in his state involved the drug fentanyl. In DE, 61% of deaths related to overdoses involved fentanyl. I appreciate the Chinese government’s commitment to classify fentanyl as a controlled substance. It...
The agency that manages health care for California’s massive state workforce is reporting a major reduction in opioid prescriptions, reflecting a national trend of physicians cutting back on the addictive drugs. Insurance claims for opioids, which are prescribed to help people manage pain, decreased almost 19%...
Local, state and federal law enforcement conducted a massive heroin bust in Connecticut on Friday, resulting in 51 arrests and the seizure of guns, $15,000 in cash and thousands of bags of heroin packaged for sale. Police in Waterbury said the arrests stem from a sweeping...
Ferndale Police Chief Shares Challenges of Service in Police Week Ceremony Ferndale Police Chief Shares Challenges of Service in Police Week Ceremony (Crystal A. Proxmire, May 19, 2019) Ferndale, MI – “I am proud of my chosen profession and proud to stand by the men and women of...
Media, Delaware County, PA — On Friday, Delaware County DA Katayoun Copeland announced the arrest of a Ridley Park woman whom allegedly attempted to smuggle Fentanyl into the George Hill Correctional Facility. The woman was reported to the jail to serve a 48 hours weekend...
Why Did Opioid Overdose Deaths Drop 50% in Chittenden County?Easier and faster access to medication-assisted treatment and efforts to blunt the impact of fentanyl helped to significantly reduce the number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Chittenden County in 2018, according to experts at the...
There’s a quick and easy cure for the opioid curse. Turn off the television sets. Better yet, outlaw all pharmaceutical advertising the way that government banned cigarette ads.But that seems a long way from happening in the best Congress that money can buy. In one...
APPLE VALLEY, California — California police have arrested two men in connection with the seizure of 500 pounds (227 kilograms) of...
This article was first published on Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission. In recent years there has been a slight increase in the seizures of illicit fentanyl, and in the amount found in New Zealand's wastewater systems. In response, authorities, including police and customs, have been closely...