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Steven Randy Pirko was still using heroin during his interview with RCMP in Nov. 2016. During Pirko’s second-degree murder trial in B.C Supreme Court in Kelowna Monday, a video of Pirko’s interview with Sgt. Eric Boucher revealed he...
As a result of the warrant being executed, police seized suspected cocaine, crystal meth, Fentanyl, Oxycodone, Hydromorphone, heroin and purple Fentanyl during a Temiskaming Shores bust May 10. The estimated street value of the drugs seized is approximately...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A West Virginia University researcher is seeking funding to study...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- An Indianapolis-based non-profit group hopes to raise enough money to open a new recovery home for women struggling with opioid use and addiction. Organizers with Overdose Lifeline say the residential...
Dunwoody Police have arrested and charged an alleged drug dealer with felony murder in the death of a 22-year-old man who police say overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl earlier this year at an apartment complex across from City Hall. It is the first known prosecution...
OTTAWA — In the small town of Arnprior, nestled into the Ottawa Valley, at least five suspected opioid overdoses in the span of week prompted police to issue a public warning.Access to extremely dangerous opioids is not limited to larger cities, said the Renfrew detachment...
WEST POINT – On Thursday, three people were arrested in West Point on charges of trafficking methamphetamine, according to information released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. James Elvin Cook, 38, of Franklin; Billy “BJ” Tyson, 38, of LaGrange; and Misty Perry, 39, of West Point...
Guelph police say most of the $80,000 worth of suspected fentanyl seized by officers in March was actually carfentanil. Police received the results of analysis by Health Canada and confirmed on Monday the drugs were 100 times more potent than fentanyl.READ MORE:...
Buy PhotoDeshawn Dowdell listens to the responses of prospective jurors during jury selection Tuesday afternoon in front of Judge Brent Robinson. (Photo: Jason J. Molyet/News Journal)MANSFIELD - Deshawn Dowdell is back for another jury trial.Dowdell, 24, is charged with murder, two counts of discharging a firearm...
Think of a dear friend of yours over 15 years ago, living in fear of getting a migraine, where the pain is so overwhelming that she couldn’t speak, didn’t make noise – even sound itself was too painful, but simply forced herself to bear the...
The opioid epidemic is ravaging American communities. Fentanyl and other opioids are killing 50,000 Americans every year, making this public health epidemic more lethal than car crashes and HIV at their peaks. The spike in overdose deaths is so severe that for the first time...
A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made by Insys Therapeutics Inc, is seen in an undated photograph provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama.U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama | ReutersInsys Therapeutics shares tanked Monday morning...
Analysis of a massive opioid seizure earlier this year has returned some alarming results. Guelph police had seized what they believed to be blue and purple fentanyl back in mid-March. Three search warrants had...
Two Scarborough, Ont., men face drug charges following a vehicle stop in the City of Kawartha Lakes early Saturday.City of Kawartha Lakes OPP say around 3:30 a.m. an officer patrolling on Highway 35 observed a vehicle being operated in a “suspicious...
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CANANDAIGUA — During his time as an Ontario County deputy, coroner and licensed...
* * * *This letter was submitted in response to a May 8 op-ed.* * * * SNPNYCSpecial Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan My recent comments on legislative changes to criminal justice focused on a single aspect of the newly enacted bail reform. Major importers and distributors of...
BOYDEN—A KELO-TV news anchor will broadcast the story of her daughter’s death in...
Insys’ legal expenses are catching up with the opioid drug maker. On Friday, the Arizona company indicated it was facing a liquidity crisis — due to the mounting litigation it is facing related to the sales practices for its addictive fentanyl-based painkiller — that could...
Bridget Hennessy was a junior in high school when her brother Matthew died of a drug overdose. She said it was a while before her parents shared with her exactly how he died."It was very hush-hush. The stigma was huge," Hennessy said in a phone...
WASHINGTON—After a House hearing on U.S.–China relations on May 8, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said that not only are tariffs on Chinese goods necessary, but sanctions and punishments are long overdue. Speaking after the hearing “Smart Competition: Adapting U.S. Strategy Toward China at 40 Years,” Perry said...
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Read more Stateline coverage of the opioid crisis. Most states are keeping a close eye on opioid overdose deaths, but they may need to start focusing on cocaine and other stimulants as well. It turns out that the...
Guernsey-co. Common Pleas Court cases The following cases were filed with the Guernsey County Clerk of Courts Office during April 2019: Criminal Amy Rochelle Pattison, 32, New Matamoras, aggravated possession of drugs, fifth-degree felony. Cody M.K. Harding, 18, Cambridge, possession of drugs, fifth-degree felony. Amy D....
MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (KMOV.com) -- Mother’s Day is especially difficult for Dawn Lamb."There’s a...
A gateway to prohibited marketplaces around the darknet was closed down, the FBI announced along with also two of its alleged operators have been detained and accused of making millions of dollars in kickbacks to their own services. A grand jury in Pittsburgh...
The Global Transdermal Patch Market 2018 Research Report is an extensive Transdermal Patch Market research report contains an introduction on new trends that can guide the businesses performing in the Transdermal Patch industry to understand the market and make the strategies for their business growth...
The stock of Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc (NASDAQ:COLL) registered a decrease of 8.61% in short interest. COLL’s total short interest was 2.62 million shares in May as published by FINRA. Its down 8.61% from 2.87M shares, reported previously. With 403,100 shares average volume, it will...
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Nicholas Sanford Sr. KENOSHA — Three arrests were made and heroin, cocaine, marijuana and firearms were recovered when members of the Kenosha Police Department’s Kenosha Drug Operations Group executed a search warrant at a home in Kenosha Thursday...
GPs must be better-equipped to support patients to manage the psychological challenge of reducing their opioid use - according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The recommendation is part of a toolkit being launched today to help GPs reduce the amount of opioids...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Opioids killed a record number of people in Maryland last year, a new report says. “It’s the second year in a row that we’ve had fatalities in excess of 2,000 people, 2,000 of our friends, neighbors and family members,” said Steve Schuh, executive...
It is so much easier to blame patients and opioid prescribing, as Canadian authorities continue to do, even when most drug overdoses are the result of illicit fentanyl, not prescription opioids. In Hamilton, Ontario, a medium sized city southwest of Toronto, opioid deaths are going...
While the SFPD makes about one and a half drug arrests per day, on average, in the Tenderloin, the department still seems only be putting a small dent in the open-air drug trade that goes on in plain sight.The Chronicle's Phil Matier takes on the...
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia University researcher is seeking funding to study whether using fentanyl testing strips changes the behavior of drug users. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports fentanyl is a powerful opioid that is increasingly involved in drug-related deaths. Some harm reduction programs use...
I believe that there is no reason for addiction to be one of the leading causes of death in the US. This is why we have a moral responsibility to educate and raise awareness for the life saving addiction treatment centers available every single...
Extinction exigency Re: “Grave impacts,” May 7 news story I read the article in The Denver Post about the forecasted extinction of many species of plants and animals. It reminded me of an assignment I had in high school that my English teacher called a ‘”think piece.”...
Demi Lovato is slowly making her way back to music after spending much of the past year focused on her sobriety and mental health. Gregory Pace/REX/Shutterstock And while she has yet to announce specific plans for a new music release, Demi announced on Instagram on Saturday, May...
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A Canadian insurance company hopes stopping over-prescription of opioids will help reduce the number of overdoses and addictions. Manulife has launched a program to make sure doctors and pharmacists aren’t...
Border Patrol agents round up hundreds of illegal immigrants crossing this past week from Mexico into the Rio Grande Valley sector. BP agents say they are overwhelmed and are concerned that Washington D.C. politics and partisan fighting will fail to find solutions to the crisis. Along...
The accused identified as Manish Kumar was arrested after 1,000 tablets were recovered from his possession when he came to the jail to meet an inmate and give him the drugs Representational Image Muzaffarnagar (UP): Police on Sunday arrested two members of a...
When it comes to open drug dealing, it’s hard to beat San Francisco’s Tenderloin, where more than half of the city’s drug arrests occurred last year. ...
Trade frictions raise questions about China’s fentanyl promiseWASHINGTON: China has pledged to stem a flood of the synthetic opioid fentanyl onto America’s streets, where it kills thousands of people a month, but U.S. security experts are skeptical about whether Beijing is willing, or even able,...
EASTON — While the county works to unravel stigmas associated with today's opioid...
Methuen, MA – A suspect caught with a bag of powder in his underwear on Wednesday tore it open and spread the powerful opioid fentanyl all over the jail and the officer who was searching him. The incident occurred as Kyle Dennis was being booked at...