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While the United States experiences an "unprecedented" bogus asylum claim-driven migrant influx crisis at our beleaguered southwestern border, less attention is often paid to the contraband that seeps over that porous border — at the behest of the transnational gangs, trafficking rings, and cartels —...
Dozens are facing charges Thursday after a multi-county drug bust spanning Central New York. Operation Central City – the name of a 15-month drug trafficking investigation led by New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ Office. And the outcome of the bust? A total of 65...
LAND O' LAKES - We expect 911 calls to always go through. But what if they don't?Michelle Sparks of Land O' Lakes nearly lost her home in a fire a year ago. She wasn't able to call 911 from her cell phone because she had...
An Alameda County sheriff’s deputy appears to have been exposed to opioids while responding to a Wednesday morning call in Castro Valley, authorities said. ...
The United States is in the midst of the deadliest drug overdose crisis in the nation’s history. More than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2017. Nearly 48,000 of those deaths involved some type of opioid, a category that includes heroin, fentanyl and prescription...
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- An Onondaga County grand jury has indicted 65 people in connection with a Central New York drug bust.State Attorney General Letitia James announced the bust during a news conference in Syracuse on Thursday afternoon. The 15-month investigation dubbed “Operation Central City”...
The potentially deadly opioid carfentanil has been found in a blue powder presented at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre for testing on Wednesday.“Carfentanil is the most toxic of all the opioid analogues,” said Rob Boyd, director of Sandy Hill’s Oasis program, the harm reduction...
Guanghua Zheng is a free man. Tom Rauh and Carrie Dobbins, who overdosed on the powerful fentanyl he illegally shipped into the U.S. are dead. This is despite the fact that U.S. authorities alerted Chinese officials to...
Los Angeles LGBT Center Addiction Recovery specialist Mike Rizzo tests a Fentanyl test strip. (Photo courtesy Rizzo) Last month, the Palm Springs LGBT community experienced a surge of fear after two people were shot at the Toucans Tiki Lounge, a popular gay nightclub. Instantly thoughts went...
An apparently false story about there being multiple cases of people "passing out" at 2018's 420 celebration on Hippie Hill due to fentanyl-laced pot was disseminated by both the SFPD and Supervisor Vallie Brown, but why?SF Weekly tried to track down the truth to the...
Jewel Gatlin (Photo: Submitted)HEBRON - A Columbus man is facing a felony after police say he threw suspected fentanyl out a car window as he attempted to flee police.Jewel P. Gatlin, 29, of 1747 Rainbow Park, Columbus, was arrested Tuesday and charged with one count aggravated...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Twenty-one people were indicted in federal court for their role in dealing heroin and fentanyl in on Cleveland’s West Side between 2017 and this month.The indictment lists 27 charges against various defendants, including drug conspiracy, distribution of heroin and opioids, several...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Dozens of people linked to two drug rings have been charged with trafficking fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in Upstate New York, the state attorney general announced Thursday.An Onondaga County grand jury has indicted 65 people in connection with a Central New...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Two Quebecers face charges in the U.S. for being behind a darknet storefront that shipped heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil and other drugs to places in Canada, U.S. and Europe.Robert Mitrache and Louis-Vincent Bourcier were two of several people behind “Pharmaphil” storefront, which...
CLEVELAND — Twenty people have been accused of taking part in a drug ring that brought heroin, fentanyl and fentanyl analogues into Cleveland, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. "This group is accused of selling deadly drugs, illegally carrying firearms, laundering their drug...
In the week leading up to 4/20 — wherein thousands of cannabis enthusiasts gathered in Golden Gate Park to smoke pot — the San Francisco Police Department distributed a disturbing narrative to the media. “Last year, we had numerous attendees pass out from using marijuana laced...
CLEVELAND — Twenty people were indicted Thursday for their roles in obtaining heroin and fentanyl and selling it to customers on Cleveland's west side. During this alleged distribution ring, numerous people mentioned in the indictment sold the deadly drugs while illegally carrying firearms.The following people...
Music superstar Prince's death shocked the world when he overdosed on counterfeit prescription pills, made of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Over three years later, deaths from similar BLACK MARKET pills continue to plague the country. ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff investigates the crisis by shedding...
According to statistics released by the Monroe County Health Department, 47 people died from drug overdoses in 2018, two more than the year before. The number of deaths in Monroe County linked to drugs and heroin in 2018 is similar to figures from the previous year,...
Pittsburgh EMT looks at the wreckage of a house that collapsed due to a landslide. One UPMC physician says instances where first responders are getting...
Acton drug test manufacturer Psychemedics Corp. has begun marketing a hair test to detect fentanyl, a powerful opioid gaining a reputation for its role in drug overdoses.The test, the company said, is the first hair test for fentanyl cleared by the U.S. Food & Drug...
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Broome County Executive Jason Garnar Thursday lifted the State of Emergency declared March 27, 2019, due to a significant spike in fentanyl-related overdose deaths. During the months of January and February, Broome County...
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/WochitThe month-long State of Emergency in Broome County after...
A sample of carfentanil being tested in a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency lab Russell Baer / AP Potentially-deadly carfentanil was detected Wednesday in the street drug known as “blue fentanyl” in testing at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre.Rob Boyd, director of the Oasis program at the...
An officer and a woman were hospitalized for possible fentanyl exposure Wednesday night in Boston’s South End neighborhood.Boston police said they received a call at 9:41 p.m. of a woman in her 30s needing medical assistance in her car. Officials then responded to the area...
STAMFORD, CT — Three Stamford men were indicted last year in connection with the trafficking of fentanyl analogues, and that three-count indictment was unsealed this week, announced United States Attorney John H. Durham and other law enforcement officials.Charged were Vincent Decaro, 29; Arber Isaku, also...
The US Drug Enforcement Administration warned in 2016 that people became sick from fentanyl through skin contact or inhalation, but the American College of Medical Toxicology and the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology released a joint statement in 2017 that said the chances of becoming ill...
DONALD Trump has praised China for executing drug dealers who sell fentanyl – an opioid said to be 50 times stronger than heroin. Mr Trump said he “appreciates” the country’s policy while also complimenting how China upgraded the status of fentanyl. AP:Associated Press Donald Trump speaks during...
Micheal Rouwhorst, 28, prepares a shot of heroin and cocaine in Philadelphia, PA. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) High Wire is Maia Szalavitz's reported opinion column on drugs and drug policy.Way back in the 1980s, when I was injecting drugs, the...
CHICAGO (CBS) — At least 18 people in a two-block section of East Garfield Park overdosed on heroin Tuesday. Police now say a heroin handout, a batch laced with Fentanyl and other substances, is the likely culprit. Those who live near Chicago and Homan say it’s nothing...
Police officers who committed misconduct not only kept their badges but became police chiefs, a USA TODAY Network investigation found. James Pilcher, Aaron Hegarty, Eric Litke and Mark Nichols, USA TODAY Network AMSTERDAM, Ohio – In the days after they ousted their police chief, the leaders of...
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BOSTON — A New Bedford man was indicted today in federal court in Boston on a federal drug charge.Davaun Oswald, 22, was indicted on one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and marijuana. Oswald has been in state custody since his arrest...
Drew Reed was convicted of drug delivery resulting in death and related charges in the April 17, 2018, death of Jennifer McCauley. ...
A father and son have been charged after an inmate at the Lancaster County Prison died of a drug overdose.Jaime Franco-Quinones and Christopher Franco-Robles are charged with drug delivery resulting in death.Lancaster police said two prison inmates out on work detail last month took a...
Dr. Gordon Smith, WVUMORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The implications behind the 122 percent increase in fentanyl-related deaths between 2015 and 2017 suggest the opioid problem is “only getting worse,” according to WVU School of Public Health researcher Dr. Gordon Smith.As this increase occurred, the death toll...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Mission Valley residents concerned after seeing a red warning sign on their neighbor's door, reading "fentanyl activity used for the illegal manufacturing or storage of fentanyl," leading them to believe a drug dealer was busted in the Presidio Place complex.The sign...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT BOSTON — A New Bedford man was indicted Wednesday on federal drug charges, the U.S. Attorney's office said.Davaun Oswald, 22, is charged in indictments out of U.S. District Court, Boston, with one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl and...
Alvogen, Inc. has issued a voluntary nationwide recall on some transdermal fentanyl patches due to faulty product labeling, ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have succeeded in stopping the flow of another large fentanyl shipment into the United States.Feds announced Tuesday that officials had intercepted 26 pounds of fentanyl, an extremely potent and frequently lethal drug, that was hidden inside of a truck...
A tentative trial date of Oct. 9 has been set for Jason R. Willoughby, 34, of Vineyard Haven, who was indicted by a Dukes County grand jury last October on felony charges in a case that involves a fatal overdose from the powerful drug fentanyl. On...
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump touted progress in the fight against opioid abuse on Wednesday and promised to hold drugmakers accountable for their part in the crisis, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor...
Shiloh S. Jackson (Photo: Submitted)TOLEDO — A Marion man guilty of selling fentanyl will spend less than three years in prison, a federal judge ruled this week.Shiloh S. Jackson, 30, of Marion, was charged with distribution of fentanyl last year in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
B.C.’s top health official has issued a strongly worded report that could set the province on a radical new path for how it responds to drug use and addiction.“This PHO [provincial health officer] Special Report examines the criminalization of people who use drugs in B.C.,...
Three area men, two of whom were extradited from Albania, are facing charges for...