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And in Tennessee, a doctor who called himself the “Rock Doc” allegedly prescribed dangerous combinations of opioids and benzodiazepines, sometimes in exchange for sexual favors.“Reducing the illicit supply of opioids is a crucial element of President Trump’s plan to end this public health crisis,” Health...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (CBS Local) — Fentanyl-related deaths have skyrocketed in West Virginia even as prescription-related opioid deaths declined, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the number of fentanyl deaths from 2015 to 2017 and found that deaths rose by 122%. Prescription opioid-related deaths decreased by...
CLOSE Jeffrey Young, a nurse practitioner in Jackson, is the subject of an ongoing DEA investigation and has been disciplined by state authorities. Nashville TennesseanStory HighlightsJackson nurse practitioner Jeff Young was indicted on drug trafficking charges on Wednesday.Young, who...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (CBS Local) — Fentanyl-related deaths have skyrocketed in West Virginia even as prescription-related opioid deaths declined, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the number of fentanyl deaths from 2015 to 2017 and found that deaths rose by 122%. Prescription opioid-related deaths decreased by...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (CBS Local) — Fentanyl-related deaths have skyrocketed in West Virginia even as prescription-related opioid deaths declined, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the number of fentanyl deaths from 2015 to 2017 and found that deaths rose by 122%. Prescription opioid-related deaths decreased by...
Harm reduction advocates expect the federal government to neglect the ongoing opioid epidemic ahead of this fall’s election. “Measures that keep people who use drugs alive are not popular with the average person who hasn't been touched by this crisis,” said Petra Schulz, co-founder of...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (CBS Local) — Fentanyl-related deaths have skyrocketed in West Virginia even as prescription-related opioid deaths declined, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the number of fentanyl deaths from 2015 to 2017 and found that deaths rose by 122%. Prescription opioid-related deaths decreased by...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (CBS Local) — Fentanyl-related deaths have skyrocketed in West Virginia even as prescription-related opioid deaths declined, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the number of fentanyl deaths from 2015 to 2017 and found that deaths rose by 122%. Prescription opioid-related deaths decreased by...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (CBS Local) — Fentanyl-related deaths have skyrocketed in West Virginia even as prescription-related opioid deaths declined, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the number of fentanyl deaths from 2015 to 2017 and found that deaths rose by 122%. Prescription opioid-related deaths decreased by...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (CBS Local) — Fentanyl-related deaths have skyrocketed in West Virginia even as prescription-related opioid deaths declined, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the number of fentanyl deaths from 2015 to 2017 and found that deaths rose by 122%. Prescription opioid-related deaths decreased by...
A city man will serve up to a decade in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to a slew of drug charges. BROCKTON — A city man will serve up to a decade in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to a slew of drug charges.Jesus Ayala, 49,...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (CBS Local) — Fentanyl-related deaths have skyrocketed in West Virginia even as prescription-related opioid deaths declined, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the number of fentanyl deaths from 2015 to 2017 and found that deaths rose by 122%. Prescription opioid-related deaths decreased by...
NORRISTOWN — A Plymouth Township man is in jail awaiting his fate from...
The military affairs and news website Task & Purpose has obtained an internal memo from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that shows the agency is considering designating the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) “when certain criteria are met.” Typically...
Dozens of people, including 53 medical professionals, have been charged for their alleged participation in the illegal prescription and distribution of opioids and other narcotics, Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services officials said Wednesday. Federal law enforcement and health officials held a...
Dozens of people, including 53 medical professionals, have been charged for their alleged participation in the illegal prescription and distribution of opioids and other narcotics, Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services officials said Wednesday. Federal law enforcement and health officials held a...
Apr. 16–The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly weighing whether to label fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. An internal memo obtained by the military news outlet Task & Purpose said the powerful synthetic opioid, typically 50 to 100 times more...
CLOSE The data shows that substance use disorder is still widespread, but innovations in treatment, prescribing and awareness are helping. USA TODAYCINCINNATI – Federal prosecutors charged 60 physicians and pharmacists Wednesday with illegally handing out opioid prescriptions in what they...
Drug experts in California, British Columbia, and other areas are warning of a powerful new drug that can easily kill its users. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that’s 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl. It’s often disguised as heroin, which...
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US officials warn carfentanil - a drug 100 times more potent than fentanyl and used to knock out elephants - is driving a new spike in overdosesCarfentanil is 100 times stronger than fentanyl,...
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]In 2017, the Manhattan district attorney’s office received a tip: Unusually large amounts of cash were being withdrawn from A.T.M.s throughout the city, including a series of transactions at a...
Wednesday Apr 17, 2019 at 7:34 AM Apr 17, 2019 at 7:34 AM WAREHAM – Responding to resident complaints of drug dealing in Onset, extra surveillance by the Wareham Police led to the arrest of a 25-year-old Wareham man on fentanyl, cocaine and gun charges.Over the last two weeks Wareham Police detectives have been conducting extra surveillance in...
WAREHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - A man is facing drug trafficking and weapons charges after a traffic stop in Wareham revealed he had an illegal loaded handgun and fentanyl in a car with a juvenile passenger, police said. Officers investigating illegal drug activity in Onset Center initiated...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEApril 16, 2019, 8:20 PM GMTBy Minyvonne BurkeThree New Jersey men were arrested after investigators seized around half a million counterfeit prescription tablets in what authorities called the...
The Bartholomew County Coroner’s office investigated 17 overdose deaths related to the opioid crisis in 2018, compared to 30 reported the year before. There have only been three confirmed overdose fatalities as of April 10, Bartholomew County Coroner...
WAREHAM — Wareham Police arrest a man on multiple charges after he is discovered to be in possession of drugs and an unlicensed firearm.Over the last two weeks Wareham Police Detectives having been conducting extra surveillance in the area of West Central Avenue in Onset,...
CHARLESTON - An increasing number of West Virginia's drug-related deaths have involved fentanyl,...
NORRISTOWN — A judge convicted a Pottstown man of numerous drug-related charges after...
Officials in San Diego County have issued an alert after three people have suffered documented fatal overdosed from a new form of the drug fentanyl know as carfentanil. It would only take 2 mg of the drug...
Purple fentanyl (Supplied photo) Southwestern Public Health has issued an alert about purple fentanyl after some drug users reported a surge in overdoses.The alert by the health unit was to other health organizations in St. Thomas and Elgin County who come into contact with people who...
Acting Sgt. Brett Flansburg of the Vermont State Police. VSP photoVermont State Police say the cause of a trooper’s collapse in March remains unknown after laboratory and medical testing, however the initial explanation that he overdosed from contact with synthetic opioids appears unfounded.State police said...
COSTA MESA (CBSLA) — Costa Mesa is taking on big pharma in a new lawsuit. At least a dozen companies selling opioids like Oxycontin and Fentanyl have been sued by the City of Costa Mesa, which accuses manufacturers and distributors of flooding the market with opioids...
Police agencies in the region warned the public Tuesday about a spate of...
But the defense for Daniel Vivas Ceron, a 38-year-old Colombian national, questioned what happened to notes taken during the interview, asked why agents showed the defendant pictures of his then-girlfriend and mother, and suggested recording interviews, which was not done in this case, was more...
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- New research from West Virginia University shows the strong grip drug addiction has in West Virginia. A team from WVU studied trends in drug-related deaths between 2005 and 2017 in West Virginia. Their research showed that deaths from fentanyl are on...
A 40-year-old Houma man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to drug charges, prosecutors said.Edward Vergin, of Helena Drive, pleaded guilty April 10 to four counts of attempted distribution of heroin and fentanyl and possession with intent to distribute heroin and...
Authorities in New York on Tuesday announced charges against three individuals accused of using the dark web to sell fake Xanax, among other substances, and laundering millions of dollars in cryptocurrency.Law enforcement started looking into the alleged crime following reported “suspicious activity” taking place at...
Local authorities just busted one of the largest dark web drug-peddling rings ever – a New Jersey-based operation that raked in millions of dollars dealing in counterfeit Xanax, officials announced Tuesday. Seized in the bust was the largest quantity of illicit pills in New Jersey history,...
CBP officers from the Office of Field Operations and agents from the U.S. Border Patrol and Air and Marine Operations run exercises at the U.S-Mexico border at the San Ysidro Port of Entry on November 22, 2018Photo: CBP photo by Shawn MooreThe U.S. Department...
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A drug raid of two Rollins Street rooming houses early Friday morning broke up what Concord police describe as “modern drug dens” where sellers and users from in and outside the city gathered at all hours of the day and night.Officers had the homes at...
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Three New Jersey men have been arrested and charged with running a counterfeit drug storefront on the dark web that sold hundreds of thousands of narcotic pills nationwide in exchange for cryptocurrency, according to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s office. The investigation targeted an operation advertising...
