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April in Carroll County represented a continuing trend of decreasing drug and alcohol overdoses, though May has started with...
EVERETT — She’d texted her new boyfriend twice that morning in May 2018, saying she wanted to be picked up from a Mukilteo hotel. Her off-and-on ex-boyfriend, Zachary Madding, told her he didn’t want her to leave. “He just started acting, I don’t know, mean,” the woman...
Fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid, was first synthesized in December 1960 by Dr. Paul Jansen in Belgium. It was developed as an IV analgesic and its first clinical use was recorded in 1963. Fentanyl was brought to...
NAMPA, Idaho — With a massive amount of heroin flowing into the Gem State, Nampa Police Department's Special Investigation Unit, which...
Former Gov. Jim McGreevey spoke at reentry conference at St. Peter's University and raised concerns about street drugs. ...
A Drug Enforcement Administration investigation led to several arrests in Kansas City, Kansas, along with seized guns and large amounts of drugs.Federal agents seized around 1,500 fentanyl pills disguised as oxycodone in a recent operation, according to court records. Erik Smith, the assistant special agent...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest numbers, Ohio is second in the United States for Fentanyl mortality rates. Only West Virginia is higher in Fentanyl mortality rates.The CDC has compiled data from around the United States on Fentanyl mortality rates and below is...
A Lake County deputy sheriff, two firefighters, and a suspect are recovering after the four were exposed to what is believed to be fentanyl during a traffic stop, according to officials with the Lake County Sheriff's Office.The deputy stopped the suspect vehicle on Florida Boys...
TAVARES, Fla. (FOX 35 ORLANDO) - A spokesman with the Lake County Sheriff's Office said one of their deputies had to be...
CLOSE Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is quickly becoming the most dangerous drug in America. Here are the basics. Brett Kelman, The TennesseanA Nashville man has been arrested after police say he provided the drug's that let to a woman's...
CLERMONT, Fla. — A Lake County deputy, firefighters, and a suspect are being hospitalized after possibly being exposed to fentanyl during a traffic stop Tuesday afternoon, according to a Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. Four transported to hospital after possible fentanyl exposure A deputy began to pass out first...
Investigators said Jose R. Reyes sold a Spring Township man heroin laced with fentanyl in September. ...
Congressman Anthony Brindisi, D-22nd Dist., is among three co-sponsors of a House bill that would give federal authorities more ways to fight importation and trafficking of opioids. The first-term representative from Utica joined with Republicans Rep. French Hill of Arkansas and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania...
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. (KMOV.com) -- Police say two officers and a K9...
NEW BEDFORD, MASS. (WHDH) - A year-long undercover investigation into a drug trafficking ring operating in the area of New Bedford led to the arrests 21 people and the seizure of more than five kilograms of raw fentanyl, authorities said. “Operation Ghost” began in June of...
A large-scale fentanyl trafficking ring in Massachusetts was taken down by investigators who say they arrested more than 20 people and seized five kilograms of raw fentanyl, body armor and $112,000 in cash during the sting called Operation Ghost.The Bristol District Attorney Thomas M....
Audreyanna Young Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Audreyanna Young MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - A Monongalia County woman has...
Sinaloa, Mexico - Three young men wearing yellow plastic overalls and gas masks huddled around a large pot on an industrial-sized Bunsen burner sitting in a clearing in the woods of the Northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. Punteros (lookouts) were posted nearby. "We've made a deal with...
Police seized large amounts of crack cocaine, cocaine, methamphetamine and synthetic fentanyl during an April 24th traffic stop near West Elementary. (New Philadelphia Police Department) ...
“Global Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Market Analysis, Forecast & Outlook (2019-2024)” provides an extensive research and detailed analysis of the present market along with future outlook. The Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Market report covers the analysis of key stake holders of the Fentanyl Transdermal Patches industry. Key players of...
HINSDALE — The man accused of murdering two people last month was found...
By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press (AP) — A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday. John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy after 15 days...
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TUCSON, Ariz. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested two U.S. citizens and seized nearly $1.2 million of drugs at the Port of San Luis over the weekend. According to the agency, officers stopped a 23-year-old Yuma resident who was driving a Honda sedan...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a call to help curb the opioid crisis by getting a cheap and plentiful antidote for heroin-related overdoses into the hands of users and caregivers on Chicago's West Side. The effort to make naloxone, or Narcan, widely available comes after more...
COLUMBIA, S.C. - More than 700 people died in 2017 from opioids, prompting the governor and agencies like the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services to kick prevention strategies into overdrive. ...
On April 23, 2019, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with Rochester Drug Co-Operative, Inc. (RDC), one of the 10 largest wholesale distributors of pharmaceutical products in the US, and filed felony criminal charges against two...
Mount Carmel Health System has settled two more lawsuits in the deaths of women cared for by a physician accused of ordering excessive amounts of painkiller for at least 35 intensive-care patients, court documents indicate.The settlements, filed Monday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, would...
Scott Cousins, scott.cousins@hearstil.com Updated 4:48 pm CDT, Monday, May 6, 2019 ...
A federal judge sentenced a 34-year-old Clay County drug dealer to life in prison today for the death of a woman who overdosed on fentanyl. Trumaine "Lucky" Muller was convicted for distributing a lethal dose of fentanyl that resulted in death in January, according to the...
The city’s top cop is seeing a correlation between increased meth use in the city and police officers’ use of force.Edmonton’s police Chief Dale McFee sat down with media Monday to discuss his first 90 days with the service and where he plans to take...
Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced charges against of six individuals Friday for operating a major fentanyl distribution organization in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Agents executed search warrants on three residences in Hazleton on Thursday, confiscating 145 bricks of suspected fentanyl and one AR15 style rifle. One brick...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Staten Island man was arrested and charged earlier today with allegedly selling at least 40 grams of fentanyl and heroin laced with fentanyl between July 2018 and April 2019, resulting in two fatal overdoses.Nalerton Charles, 38, otherwise known as...
Deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide have increased markedly over the last 20 years, reversing a century-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. These “deaths of despair” are now greater than the number of motor vehicle-related fatalities each year. Many of these deaths could...
When Lauren Lollini went to the hospital for kidney surgery in 2009, she was shocked when she left with hepatitis C and a liver infection."My life dramatically changed because now I am a 40-year-old woman with a...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An Orange Park man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars for distributing...
(Black Press Media file photo) Vaccine against fentanyl shows promising...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former pharmacy technician at a Springfield hospital has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing painkillers meant for cancer and burn patients. The Springfield News-Leader reports that 37-year-old Marc Musil, of Springfield, was...
Waterloo Regional Police have arrested and charged a 47-year-old man after searching a home in Kitchener on Friday afternoon, where police said they found fentanyl, methamphetamine, hydromorphone and other items. READ MORE: House of Friendship fire in Cambridge now a criminal investigation...
Formerly Incarcerated Mothers Hold Vigil At Cook County JailAs Mother's Day approaches, dozens of former inmates are pushing fo compassion for women in prison, and their children.16 minutes agoCBS 2 Weather Watch (11AM, May 6, 2019)CBS 2 Meteorologist Megan Glaros has the latest 7-day forecast.36...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A group of lawmakers held an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss ways to fight the ongoing opioid crisis, nearly two weeks after at least 20 people overdosed on heroin on the West Side. The lawmakers said opioid addiction is nothing short of...
Moreover, the crisis is evolving fast. At the American College of Medical Toxicology’s 2019 annual meeting, featured speaker Keith Humphreys, PhD, remarked that “Fentanyl was invented in the sixties. To get to 10,000 deaths took 50 years. To get to 20,000 took 12 months.”In fact,...
EU scientists are working to analyse and identify synthetic drugs, in a fight against a rapidly-growing market.New psychoactive substances (NPS) are designed to mimic the effects of illegal narcotics such as cannabis, cocaine or heroin, and can be extremely harmful.Despite this, the synthetic drugs are...