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Joey Friederick got home from work June 7, 2018, to find his 18-year-old son, Jared, laying unresponsive on the living room couch. “He was blue and I just started...
Formidable resources have been brought to bear on this country’s opioid epidemic and...
How many people have to die? That is a question we have posed frequently throughout The Daily Courier’s #StopFentanylNow series. On average, in each year from 2013 to 2016,...
‘ER’ star on ‘The Red Line’Noah Wyle (“ER”) returns to episodic TV in...
Over-the-counter sales of strong painkiller codeine may be banned in a new addiction crackdown. And packets of pills are to carry warnings about drug dependency. The move comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock tries to stem growing numbers of people hooked on painkillers. It means...
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BELDING — About every five years, looking back on various trends, significant change can be found, from phones to clothing … to drugs. Det. Sgt. Joel Abendroth, who runs the Michigan State Police Central Michigan Enforcement Team, left, speaks on the topic of serious drug issues...
MUMBAI: Investigations into the seizure of drugs, initially identified as the banned Fentanyl, worth Rs 1,000 crore, found that the semi-finished powder could have been enough to manufacture 3.8 crore tablets worth Rs 6,900 crore. This could be the biggest seizure by the anti-narcotics cell...
The goal is to limit future drug abuse, the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office...
If you have unused or expired medications at home, be sure to take them to one of thousands of drop-off sites across the country on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday. Getting rid of excess meds could save a life, according to the American...
]]> April 27, 2019 at 4:27p.m. CONNEAUT Multi-agency drug investigations and busts over the past several days netted a large amount of...
State officials have suspended the license of a doctor who was accused of wearing a fentanyl patch while she performed surgeries on 16 patients.Pranathi Vanapalli Reddy had her license to practice suspended in November by Pennsylvania regulators. Officials in New Jersey followed suit in January.Records...
All opioid medicines will have to carry prominent addiction warnings to protect people “from the darker side of painkillers”, health secretary Matt Hancock has announced. The government action comes after data revealed a 60% rise in prescriptions for opioid drugs over the past 10 years, with...
EL PASO — Ports blockaded. Threats of international economic sanctions. Internment camps. Barbed wire. Military buildups. National emergencies. ...
LINCOLN — Nebraska must turn over information to Arkansas death row inmates’ attorneys...
Seymour police recovered an estimated street value of more than $6,000 in fentanyl patches following a traffic stop on Interstate 65 near Uniontown, a record amount for the department. Police recovered 63 fentanyl patches, 80 grams of crystal...
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The anesthetic technique we described allowed patients to undergo coronary artery bypass and valve replacement surgery more safely and with greater success because of fentanyl's unique pharmacologic properties. The technique was considered a seminal event in anesthesia for cardiac surgery.Since the publication of that paper,...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Two men are being questioned in connection with Tuesday’s overdose surge on Chicago’s West Side, sources say. Police say four people died as a result of taking heroin laced with Fentanyl. “My father’s proud of me and things like that, so those are the things...
An Onondaga County grand jury has indicted 65 people in connection with a Central New York drug network that operated in five counties, including Oneida County, state officials said. State Attorney General Letitia James announced the indictments during a press conference late Thursday. The 15-month...
A 55-year-old Innisfil man will stand trial on five charges, including manslaughter, related to a fentanyl overdose death that took place in 2017, South Simcoe police say.Tahir Ali, 55, was committed to trial on all counts at the Barrie court on...
A council of six men convened a meeting in Hollygrove in March 2016...
A Suffolk man has been indicted on charges of voluntary manslaughter and distributing/selling for profit Schedule I or II drugs in connection to an overdose death that happened last spring, according to Suffolk Police. Byron Franklin Ambrose Jr., 31, was arrested Thursday following the indictment on...
The case highlights, they say, the conundrum faced by drug users in crisis situations: Should they call 911 or not? SOUTH KINGSTOWN — On April 17, the South Kingstown police announced via social media the arrest of a 28-year-old Narragansett woman on a charge that she...
A Calgary mother is sharing her story of loss in hopes of bringing more awareness to the ongoing opioid crisis in Alberta.Samantha Card, 25, died last October after overdosing on fentanyl.“She just had a spice about her, she was creative and...
Nearly 20 Ohio counties will receive funding through a $350 million study aimed at reducing opioid-related deaths by forty percent over three years.The study, through the National Institutes of Health, is called Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEALing). Ohio, Kentucky, New York and Massachusetts, which...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT PLYMOUTH — A New Bedford man pleaded guilty to drug dealing charges and was sentenced to four years in state prison, the Plymouth County DA's office said.Jakeem Finley, 23, entered the plea late Thursday afternoon in Superior Court to one...
The Allen County Action Commission for the Opiate Epidemic got the latest on...
NEW YORK — About two-thirds of Americans believe drug companies are to blame for the opioid crisis, although nearly as many hold drug users themselves responsible, a new poll finds. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed many people also fault doctors who...
Beacon Journal/Ohio.com Friday Apr 26, 2019 at 11:21 AM Apr 26, 2019 at 11:21 AM Akron will be featured in a '60 Minutes' report Sunday that focuses on illegal synthetic opioids coming from China.The television program traveled to China and tracked down a man accused of illegally shipping the drugs to the United States. Some of those drugs wound...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police said two men have been arrested in connection with a rash of heroin overdoses in East Garfield Park earlier this week. At least 18 people in a two-block section of the neighborhood overdosed on heroin Tuesday. Police said a heroin handout, a...
Cassandra Stephenson, Jackson Sun Published 2:31 p.m. CT April 26, 2019 A HAZMAT team responded to the Decatur County Sheriff's Department Friday after a trooper and inmate...
Illegally produced fentanyl is the deadliest opioid when abused but its medical counterpart is a lifeline for people with severe pain. Now a drug that’s been made harder to get may become close to impossible.The Department of Homeland Security is considering whether to classify fentanyl...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – “60 Minutes” CBS’ long-running news magazine show, will explore how powerful synthetic opioids are making it from China to the U.S., as well as efforts by federal prosecutors in Ohio to combat the flow of drugs from outside the country.Reporter Scott...
VALPARAISO — Three Arizona residents face up to 30 years behind bars after...
A trio of Lorain County residents were indicted in federal court April 25...
A suspected drug dealer has been indicted in connection to two fatal overdoses last year. A Terrebonne Parish grand jury found enough evidence Wednesday to charge Jardon Lee Smith, 31, with two counts of second-degree murder in the 2018 overdose deaths of Robert McCord and Sarah...
Chicago police have arrested a man in connection with a batch of drugs laced with the potent painkiller fentanyl...
Sentinel Staff Reports SCRANTON, Lackawanna County - A California man is facing federal charges for conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine in Schuylkill County and elsewhere. On Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted Esgardo Carrillo, 25, from California, for conspiracy to...
CECIL COUNTY — A drug overdose has killed someone in Cecil County roughly...
Chicago police have arrested a man in connection with a batch of drugs laced with the potent painkiller fentanyl...
Joe DiFazio The Patriot Ledger jldifazio Friday Apr 26, 2019 at 11:08 AM WEYMOUTH — Police said they found almost an ounce and a half of fentanyl and about an ounce of cocaine after arresting two people in a Weymouth parking lot Thursday.Max Russo, 28, and Ashley Pinto, 26, both of...
New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced the takedown of two drug rings and the arrest of 65 people in the trafficking of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in central and northern New York. The 15-month investigation, which started in St. Lawrence County, was a...
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Police are questioning a person of interest after a batch of tainted heroin on the West Side killed four people and hospitalized at least a dozen others earlier this week. Reports of multiple overdoses started about 9:40 a.m. Tuesday, and by late afternoon, at least 17...
Police are questioning a person of interest after a batch of tainted heroin on the West Side killed four people and hospitalized at least a dozen others earlier this week. Reports of multiple overdoses started about 9:40 a.m. Tuesday, and by late afternoon, at least 17...