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President Trump is delivering a speech in Atlanta Wednesday at the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin summit after 1 p.m. Wednesday, as the U.S. has seen drug overdose deaths skyrocket in the last decade. Over 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2017, compared with...
Chicago police and the Drug Enforcement Administration were working together Wednesday to investigate a rash of at least 17...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to tout his fight against opioid abuse in remarks in Atlanta on Wednesday, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives. U.S. President Donald Trump attends...
Federal prosecutors charged drug distributor Rochester Drug Cooperative and its former CEO with drug trafficking charges Tuesday -- the first criminal charges for a pharmaceutical company and executives in the nation's ongoing opioid crisis. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay up...
Laurence Doud III, the former CEO of Rochester Drug Co-Operative (RDC), was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury. He is accused of distributing tens of millions of oxycodone, fentanyl, and other opioids that Rochester's own compliance department allegedly found had no legitimate need for...
CHICAGO (CBS) — CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov was drawn into a story about Chicago’s drug epidemic when she rushed to help a victim who overdosed right in front of her. It’s a horror people living in a two-block area of East Garfield Park see every day. I went...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn — Fifteen people have been indicted for a heroin and fentanyl conspiracy in Knoxville and other East Tennessee counties,...
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Two South Carolina women pleaded guilty to drug counts stemming...
A UVic chemist and a social worker are embarking on a project to perfect a test for drug users to check for deadly overdose ingredients like fentanyl. The three-year project led by Dennis Hore, professor of chemistry, and Bruce Wallace, associate professor of social work,...
NEW YORK — The former head of a drug distributor has been indicted on what federal prosecutors say are the first criminal charges against a drug company executive to stem from the opioid crisis.The indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges former Rochester Drug Co-Operative CEO Laurence Doud...
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Share This Article:Fentanyl packages. Photo via Wikimedia CommonsA drug dealer pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Tuesday to selling pills that contained the synthetic opioid fentanyl to a La Jolla man, causing the victim’s overdose death last year.Support Times of San Diego's growthwith a...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — For the first time in the nation’s opioid crisis, criminal charges have been filed against a drug company executive who’s accused of illegally distributing prescription drugs. Laurence Doud III, the retired CEO of the Rochester Drug Co-Operative, operated in the fringes of the...
Alia Paavola - Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 Print | Email Alvogen, a pharmaceutical company based in New...
Heather Yakin Times Herald-Record @HeatherYakin845 The latest salvo in the ongoing battle against opioids: The Southern District of New York on Tuesday unsealed an indictment charging the CEO of a prescription drug distribution cooperative with narcotics conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the U.S.The indictment...
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) began deploying NARCAN kits, along with...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.1. Coffins of all sizes. Mass burials began in Sri Lanka for the more than 300 people killed in Sunday’s suicide attacks. The true toll of the attacks started to come...
Alvogen, Inc, has issued a voluntary nationwide recall because of faulty product labeling on some of the transdermal patches from the Fentanyl Transdermal System, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced. The...
QUINCY — The day after her son overdosed on a near-fatal mix of heroin and fentanyl, there was a knock on the door. Two plainclothes police officers and two health workers had arrived unannounced, in the dark of the evening, and the distraught woman could...
A woman has been arrested and charged for allegedly selling a man drugs, causing his fatal overdose in Franklin County, police said.Kelly Neville, 31, was charged with dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death.Police said the arrest comes after officers found Jeffrey Shultz, 29,...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A federal grand jury indicted 15 people for heroin and fentanyl conspiracy in Knoxville and surrounding counties on April 16. According to a release from the office of the United States Attorney Eastern District of Tennessee, a grand jury "returned an...
The federal government on Tuesday charged a major drug distributor — for the first time — for its role in perpetuating the country’s deadly opioid epidemic. Rochester Drug Cooperative faces charges for conspiring to distribute drugs and defrauding the federal government — after the...
NEW YORK (AP) — The former head of a drug distributor has been indicted on what federal prosecutors say are the first criminal charges against...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday filed its first criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives over their roles in the nation’s opioid epidemic. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Department of Justice building is seen ahead of...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEApril 23, 2019, 4:02 PM UTC / Updated April 23, 2019, 4:55 PM UTCBy Tom WinterIn a first in the fight against the opioid crisis, a major drug distribution company...
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]For the first time, a major pharmaceutical distributor is facing federal criminal charges over its role in the opioid crisis that has ravaged the United States.The company, Rochester Drug Cooperative,...
A police investigation into a “known suspended driver” in Hamilton resulted in multiple drug charges and the seizure of what they believe to be heroin and fentanyl.Police say shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, they observed a black 2010 Honda Civic...
Alvogen’s fentanyl transdermal system is sold at five different strengths, and an error saw products containing 50mcg/h patches labelled as 12mcg/h. The lots were distributed in the US to the pharmacy level.According to the company, the application of a 50mcg/h patch instead of the prescribed...
BELFAST — A needle exchange program made its Belfast debut April 18, when it officially opened to the public. The program, which is overseen by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, is run by the nonprofit Health and Equity Alliance. Until the Belfast office opened, the closest...
Opioid users fear accidental overdoses from street drugs laced with fentanyl, but unpredictable drug quality means they often lack reliable strategies to avoid it, according to a team of researchers who suggest that fentanyl test strips may reduce overdose deaths. ...
THE opioid Fentanyl could be classed as a "weapon of mass destruction" in the US, as part of a drastic bid to lower overdose deaths. The drug, which provides intense relief from severe pain, is said to be 100 times more powerful than heroin. Getty Images -...
The US Government could start classing the opiod drug fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction in a bid to improve its control of the chemical.More than 18,000 Americans died of fentanyl overdoses in 2016, a rise of more than 1,000 per cent from 1,600...
Two judges have thrown out the charges against Reo Adkins in the case from May 2017. The Erie County District Attorney's Office is once again trying to restore a drug case involving fentanyl that has been dismissed twice.Two judges in Erie County have tossed the charges...
WASHINGTON - A pharmaceutical company is recalling some of the painkiller it manufactures that is more than four times as powerful as indicated on the carton's label.The Food and Drug Administration announced that Alvogen,...
FROM THE BORDER — Last week, a group of Republican lawmakers took a trip to the southern border to get a firsthand look at the growing crisis. The Phoenix Arizona DEA division captured the trip on Twitter. Thank you to @RepAndyBiggsAZ, @Rep_Hunter, @RepMattGaetz, @RepSeanDuffy, @RepDustyJohnson,...
A grand jury indicted Sergio Perez, 43, of Deltona, with one count of first-degree murder and Melanie Cunningham, 27, of Deltona, with two counts of first-degree murder. Two ringleaders of a heroin distribution organization jailed after their operation was busted in October were charged Monday with...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) Despite the many initiatives the state has implemented to fight the opioid epidemic, overdose deaths continue to rise in Vermont. Preliminary data from the Vermont Health Department shows opioid overdose deaths generally did not change from 2017 to 2018. In 2017, the health department...
MILWAUKEE — A 1.8-mile pursuit ended in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood, where a vehicle flipped and a driver was ejected. It was all caught on camera. The SUV might not have stopped if not for a few road blocks. The driver is facing charges for what...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Top military and Homeland Security officials are considering classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, according to an internal DHS memo. The synthetic opioid, blamed in health surveys for surging drug overdose deaths in the United States, has for decades concerned national security officials...
NAMPA — The Nampa Police Department is seeing an increase in counterfeit oxycodone...
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The British Columbia Interior Health authority is warning street-drug users of a synthetic cannabinoid that has been linked to a so-called "zombie" outbreak in New York. Chief medical health officer Dr. Trevor Corneil says tests at a Kamloops overdose-prevention site...
Monday, April 22, 2019 6:43 p.m. CDT By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An unfinished memoir that Prince was writing before his...
KAMLOOPS, B.C.—The British Columbia Interior Health authority is warning street-drug users of a synthetic cannabinoid that has been linked to a so-called “zombie” outbreak in New York.Chief medical health officer Dr. Trevor Corneil says tests at a Kamloops overdose-prevention site found the powerful drug mixed...
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ohio (WDTN) - The Department of Homeland Security is considering classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. That designation could help law enforcement disrupt...