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Staff report Wednesday May 15, 2019 at 2:20 PM A Davidson County man was charged with second degree murder Tuesday after Lexington police say he sold heroin laced with fentanyl to a man who later overdosed and died.Daniel Allen English, 27, of 1520 Hoover Road, was charged with second degree murder by distributing...
Six people died of illicit drug overdoses in the first three months of 2019 in Chilliwack, a number that used to mark an entire year of deaths prior to the current opioid crisis in B.C. And while it...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Wednesday that it will stop accepting gifts from members of the Sackler family who own the company making the OxyContin prescription painkillers implicated in the US opioids crisis. The museum on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, one...
Purple fentanyl. Photo courtesy of OPP. ...
Massachusetts is reporting a 4% decline in opioid-related overdose deaths from 2016 to 2018, according to new state data released Wednesday. There were 2,100 fatalities in 2016, and an estimated 2,050 in 2017 and 2,033 last year.But the preliminary numbers for the first quarter of...
Essex County OPP are warning the public about the dangers of fentanyl after three overdoses and three arrests in separate cases this year. Officers are reminding everyone about the dangers of ingesting fentanyl...
A fugitive from Philadelphia, wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service for the distribution of fentanyl and heroin, may have fled to Lowell, authorities say. Walky Pereira-Decastro, 33, was federally charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics last October and has not been seen since, according to...
Sarah Peters had “the talk” with her daughter Rachel Ramirez about the dangers of drugs. And not just a talk, but an ongoing conversation. Rachel was honest with her mother. Long a sufferer from anxiety, Rachel smoked pot to ease her worries. “I don’t want pills,” she...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Benjamin Cheesbro ordered a May 8 indictment unsealed that charged...
The text alert system that warns drug treatment providers and users in Baltimore about potentially deadly street drugs is...
Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. VINCENNES, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) - Protecting K-9 Heroes provides police departments...
Strict policies traditionally embraced by Asian nations to discourage illicit drug use are beginning to change, with a few nations adopting alternative approaches while other nations are taking an even harder line against drugs, according to a new RAND Corporation report. Thailand is on the forefront...
Greenville, SC (FOX Carolina) A Greenville mom is offering a reward for answers about...
BUCKHANNON — A Buckhannon Police Department officer was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital last week for observation after being exposed to fentanyl. “Officer Angel McCauley was on a traffic stop at approximately 7 p.m. last Saturday and found a white powder substance which was later...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday that his office has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma, accusing the drug company of fueling a devastating opioid epidemic. Purdue Pharma is the maker of OxyContin, a powerful and addictive opioid that is prescribed by doctors...
WHITE PLAINS - The New York Senate has approved Stephen's Law, a measure aimed at battling the opioid crisis. Seven years ago, Carol Christiansen's son was out of treatment for less than a week...
CLOSE U.S. Rep. Tom Reed was joined by local law enforcement officials to announce he will reintroduce legislation in Congress to address an opioid epidemic. Jeff Murray / Staff videoThe 16th and final defendant in a major Elmira-based opioid ring...
Heather Yakin Times Herald-Record @HeatherYakin845 As we’ve been following the opioid epidemic, another ominous trend has emerged: a rising tide of deaths from cocaine and stimulant overdose. These deaths, according to last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and...
MARYLAND Ex-bishop who hit bicyclist is released A former Episcopal bishop who fatally struck a bicyclist while drunk and texting behind the wheel more than four years ago has been released from a Maryland lockup. Heather Cook was the second-highest-ranking Episcopal leader in the...
PROVIDENCE – A suspected drug trafficker who fled members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force in Pawtucket in early April and was arrested the next day in Fall River is facing a minimum of 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in federal...
A fentanyl check in progress. One red line on top is a positive result for the presence of fentanyl or one of its analogs. Two red lines is a negative result. Handout Vancouver Coastal Health and B.C. Centre for Disease Control are collaborating on a pilot project...
PROVIDENCE – A suspected drug trafficker who fled members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force in Pawtucket in early April and was arrested the next day in Fall River is facing a minimum of 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in federal...
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man will spend the next 10 years in prison for his role in a scheme...
Linda Sue Allen (Photo: Supplied)RICHMOND, Ind. — Police officers allegedly found fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine when serving a search warrant at a city mobile home.Linda Sue Allen, 50, of the 1400 block of New Paris Pike was jailed Monday morning after her arrest inside her residence. Later...
Photo: USCBP Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Photo: USCBP ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) - The sixteenth and final...
Both men and women across North America are dying from fentanyl – a synthetic opioid roughly 50 to 100 times more toxic than morphine that’s entered the drug supply. But when the mortality data has been crunched, the overwhelming number of victims are men, most in the...
SAN DIEGO, May 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ: ADMP) announced today conditional acceptance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the proposed brand name for the company’s high dose naloxone product candidate. The notification to the company from...
A Peterborough man is facing drug charges following a motor-vehicle collision investigation on Saturday.Peterborough police around 9:30 p.m. responded to a two-vehicle collision at Hunter and Aylmer streets.Police say that after an investigation, one of the drivers was found in possession...
NEW LENOX, IL — In 2018, Will County had 82 heroin deaths. During the first five months of 2019, there have been 32 heroin/fentanyl deaths across the county. Statistics continue to show an increase in opioid-related deaths across the state and country. In 2018, New...
It can happen to you. That is what representatives from Barrhead’s emergency services told a group of Grade 9 students from Barrhead and Neerlandia after staging a mock medical emergency at the splash park on May 9 as part of the Barrhead CARES Coalition’s PARTY Program. As...
ROSEVILLE, CA (KOLO) -- Four inmates, eight jail staff and one K9 Officer have been affected by an unknown substance at South Placer Jail, according to the Placer County Sheriff Twitter Account. They were taken to a hospital for exposure to an unknown...
A South Australian man who used the dark web and established a website called Friends of fentanyl to import and sell the drug has been jailed for at least two years.Douglas William Barrett imported 9g of fentanyl, partly to satisfy his own addiction developed through...
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Update: 7:50 p.m.Four inmates, eight deputies, and one K9 were treated on scene after a prisoner allegedly brought...
WINCHESTER — A Strasburg woman accused of leading police on a high-speed chase...
A South Australian man who used the dark web and established a website called Friends of Fentanyl to import and sell the drug has been jailed for at least two years.Douglas William Barrett imported nine grams of fentanyl, partly to satisfy his own addiction developed...
MORGANTOWN — Researchers at West Virginia University have studied the overwhelming, detrimental effects of...
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Update: 7:50 p.m.Four inmates, eight deputies, and one K9 were treated on scene after a prisoner allegedly brought...
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - Investigators believe 28-year-old Antoin Thornton sold fentanyl-laced heroin to a 22-year-old man who overdosed March 18 at an apartment complex on Ashford Dunwoody Road. That crime left Thornton in the DeKalb County Jail without bond...
Multiple inmates from the South Placer Jail in Roseville were taken to area hospitals Monday after exposure to an unknown substance, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said. The Sheriff’s Office said that although the substance is currently unknown, officials believe it may be fentanyl. Fentanyl...
Inmates, Deputies Hospitalized After Possible Fentanyl ExposureThe Placer County Sheriff's Department said several inmates have been transported to local hospitals for suspected Fentanyl exposure. (5/13/19)2 minutes agoMother Recounts Terrifying Moments After Son With Autism DisappearedA Sacramento woman spent Mother’s Day surviving her worst nightmare. Her...
From the time of his arrest, Dr. Paul T. Biddle was upfront about his addiction to painkillers. In time, the Orchard Park pain management physician also admitted writing prescriptions to two dead people and diverting the drugs to himself. Biddle, 55, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District...
Valerie DeCaro-Garcia spent some of her Mother’s Day trying to bring attention to a law rarely used in Cook County. When her brother, Anthony DeCaro, died of fentanyl toxicity in 2016, she thought his death would be investigated as a homicide. After all, the Illinois Drug Induced...
Washington County had the state's second highest increase in opioid-related deaths from 2017...