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SIMCOE — A 39-year-old Simcoe man’s sentence of 10 years in penitentiary is believed to be the harshest punishment every imposed in Norfolk County related to drug offences.“Ten years is a very significant sentence,” federal Crown attorney Jamie Pereira said Monday in Simcoe’s Ontario Court...
People with addictions can receive free walk-in help — no appointments needed — today through Friday at seven Columbus locations.The "Walk in for Recovery" events are being offered by the Columbus and Franklin County Addiction Plan to connect people with addictions, especially opioid addictions, to treatment and...
Tristan Keith Gordon Jenkins, 27, and Micah Jair McClure, 40, appeared in the B.C. Provincial Court in Victoria on April 29, for a voir dire hearing. Jenkins, dressed in a red jumpsuit with cuffs around his ankles, joked...
The majority of the reported cases of missing fentanyl occurred in Ontario, followed by Alberta and Quebec. Federal records obtained by the Star revealed 138 incidents of lost fentanyl from Canadian hospitals at a rate of about twice a week over a 15-month period ending...
LIMA — A Lima man was taken into custody last week after a search of his residence turned up suspected heroin, fentanyl, crack cocaine, marijuana and multiple firearms.The West Central Ohio Crime Task Force, with assistance from the Allen County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, served...
A Concord man pleaded guilty Monday to supplying fentanyl to Ryan Smith who fatally overdosed in the early-morning hours of July 26, 2017, in a wooded area off North Main Street.Although Spencer Grayson, 22, took responsibility for giving fentanyl to Smith just moments before the overdose,...
Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press Monday Apr 29, 2019 at 2:20 PM Apr 29, 2019 at 2:20 PM A federal jury will be able to hear from a doctor who spent decades advocating for broader use of powerful prescription painkillers before turning against the opioid industry.A special court master had ruled earlier this month that the testimony of Dr....
The global “Fentanyl Transdermal Patches market” report provides a penetrating analysis of the Fentanyl Transdermal Patches market. The report offers a concise outline of the market and describes the main terminologies of the market. The report has enclosed few of the prominent players in the...
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Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera got an inside look at the opioid crisis with a visit to the Sarasota County Jail in Florida. Speaking on “Fox & Friends” on Monday.After his revealing look at the growing and deadly crisis, Rivera was moved to call pharmaceutical companies, “drug pushers...
CLOSE Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wochit, Elissa Robinson/WochitDETROIT — The stories are scary: They tell of...
The number of people overdosing on drugs is increasing. In 2017, more than 70,000 people died of an overdose. Many of the overdoses involve a mixture of drugs, with a significant increase in synthetic opioids such as fentanyl that are far more powerful than heroin...
AKRON, Ohio - April 29, 2019 - (Newswire.com) In March of 2015, a lethal dose of illicitly manufactured fentanyl took the life of Tom Rauh of Akron, OH. To honor Tom, his father James Rauh founded the Rising Anchor Project, a community dedicated to fighting...
CLOSE Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wochit, Elissa Robinson/WochitDETROIT — The stories are scary: They tell of...
In the investigation span of almost 2 years, authorities have successfully detained 3 men. The criminal inquiry revealed Sinmed-a drug-dealing storefront operational on Dream Market.Stocks of drugs were confiscated in the sting. Drugs include Xanax, Fentanyl-laced heroin and methamphetamine. The dealers provided drugs in return...
With fewer than half of all Americans in favor of building a border wall, President Donald Trump has been on a media blitz trying to sway public opinion. One of the biggest tools he has used to try to convince the public is the...
By Rick StillionThe Daily Jeffersonian Monday Apr 29, 2019 at 8:10 AM Apr 29, 2019 at 8:25 AM Preliminary hearings for two northern Ohio residents facing felony, drug-related charges have been scheduled for May 2 in the Cambridge Municipal Court. Goldie D. Flint, 29, and Marcus L. Nixon, 38, both of Akron, face single counts of aggravated possession of...
Laying manslaughter charges in cases of fatal fentanyl overdoses might draw more public attention to the issue, but don’t count on it to be a significant deterrent, say Saskatchewan defence lawyers.Saskatoon lawyer Mark Brayford, who is representing one of several people currently facing such a...
Suspected fentanyl is seen on a table as officials gather at a press conference to announce federal drug, firearm and immigration charges against 30 defendants from the city of Lawrence, Mass., and surrounding communities at Moakley Federal Courthouse Tuesday, May 30, 2017, in Boston. The...
Police have seized a "significant" amount of Donkey Kong pills which have been linked to the death of a thirteen-year-old boy. On Friday, April 12, 13-year-old Carson Price was discovered unconscious in Ystrad Mynach Park on Caerphilly Road and was pronounced dead the same day....
U.S. President Donald Trump touted progress within the battle in opposition to opioid abuse on Wednesday and promised to carry drugmakers accountable for his or her half within the disaster, a day after his administration introduced its first associated felony expenses towards a significant drug...
Maura Kate Mitchelson, opinions editor While I was on my way to my formal last year, rapper Travis Scott dropped his single “Watch,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert and Kanye West. When I listened for the first time – and countless times after – one line stuck...
CONCORD, NH — While there are still a handful of overdose deaths pending toxicology reports, drug death counts in New Hampshire appear to be plateauing, according to the latest data from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner. In 2018, 473 passed away due to a...
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A customs officer uses a dog to check for illegal substances at an e-commerce industrial park in Hefei, Anhui province, that mainly...
Every year on April 20, thousands of people gather in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to hold a marijuana festival. A San Francisco mayoral candidate has expressed her firm stance against this festival. “This event is a violation of [the] Constitution,” Ellen Lee Zhou, said. “It’s...
"I'm used to being off camera," says Bob Anderson. "The producer is better not seen and not heard."But on 60 Minutes this week, the longtime producer was both seen and heard while conducting what's known as an...
Everyone here at Patch hopes you had a great weekend this weekend. If you were off your phones, tablets, or computers, here is a rundown of some of the news and posts you missed: The latest drug death data shows fentanyl still ravaging the...
Chicago police say two West Side men with criminal histories going back decades were arrested last week as part...
ALBANY - Kate Centofanti is believed to have been clean from heroin for more than a year prior to her September 2016 death. But troubles in her life, a car break-in and loss of hours at work, are believed to have led her to relapse,...
By now, you may know a family shattered by the opioid epidemic. In 2017, there were 47,000 opioid deaths. That's more Americans than were killed in vehicle accidents or by firearms. One drug, fentanyl, is like rocket fuel in the sharp rise of this crisis....
RED BOILING SPRINGS, Tenn.—A mayor in Tennessee who is up for re-election has been arrested after allegedly attempting to get a pill press used to make illegal drugs. The Macon County Sheriff’s Office on April 25 arrested Red Boiling Springs Mayor Joel Coe two days before...
Vials and patches of fentanyl were reported missing from Canadian hospitals at a rate of about twice a week over a 15-month period ending on Jan. 1, 2018, according to federal records obtained by the Star.In total, the records reveal 138 incidents of lost fentanyl,...
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Three men have been arrested this month under suspicions of running one of the largest drug stalls on the dark web named “Sinmed,” as reported by ABC News Australia. The illegal drug marketplace conducted its business on Dream Market,...
All opioid medicines will carry prominent addiction warnings to protect people “from the darker side of painkillers”, the health secretary has announced. It comes after figures showed a 60% increase in prescriptions for opioid painkillers in the last decade in England and Wales. Health...
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr. LaRue Leah LaRue, PharmD, PMPAssociate Director, Clinical AffairsMillennium Health MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Drug overdose deaths continue to increase, despite the leveling off of prescription opioid use and policy changes limiting opioid prescribing. While fentanyl has garnered most of...
Opioid painkillers will have to carry prominent warnings about the risk of addiction, the health secretary has announced.The move comes amid a massive increase in the number of prescriptions for the painkillers -...
By Zachary Horner, Chatham News + Record Staff (Editor’s note: this is the first of a five-part series of stories by the Chatham N+R about the opioid crisis, its impact on Chatham County and possible solutions.) Goldston Mayor Tim Cunnup took the microphone to welcome the small...
Health Secretary Matt Hancock's crackdown on the abuse of opiumderived medicines comes as the number of prescriptions for opioids has soared by more than 60 per cent in a decade. The epidemic in the US has claimed the lives of high-profile celebrities such as the...
Opioid painkillers will soon have to carry a prominent warning about the risk of addiction in a bid to tackle growing concerns around prescription and over-the-counter medicines.Prescriptions for opioid-based medication have increased 60% in the last 10 years to 23 million annually, according to Department...
EASTON — What started as a small community outreach project in Talbot County...
EASTON — Talbot County consisted of nearly 37,000 people in 2018, according to...
Noah Wyle (“ER”) returns to episodic TV in “The Red Line” (7 p.m.,...