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There’s not a community in Ohio that hasn’t been touched by the opioid...
Thompson RCMP Image THOMPSON – RCMP in Manitobahas confirmed that the pills seized during...
Last month, when Allergan’s $AGN once-touted pipeline star rapastinel crashed and burned a slate of pivotal depression studies, it looked like the experimental modulator of the NMDA receptor would be shrouded in a cloak of invisibility — but researchers may have found a way to...
Elements of the Mexican Army and state police seized 12,260 fentanyl pills and 34 grams of cocaine during security operations a military checkpoint in Sonora over the weekend, which resulted in the arrest of one adult male. The Federal Attorney General’s Office of Mexico announced the...
Police are trying to determine the identity of a who was charged with selling heroin/Fentanyl to a woman in a parking lot at 575 Broad St shortly before 6 p.m. on April 3.Lt. John Perchard said the suspect identified himself as William Adino Sanchez, 31,...
Lyndsay Hartman spends Saturday afternoons sitting in front of death and trying not to think about it. She loads up her vehicle with needles, Narcan and fentanyl test strips. She drives over to the Kane County Coroner's office and parks outside the front door with a...
In a case that offers a window into the spread of addictive painkillers, a Sacramento County nurse was indicted by a federal grand jury last week after prosecutors said she sold more than 20,000 prescription opioid pills — including powerful and deadly fentanyl — on...
Credit: Office of the United States Attorney Above: Fentanyl pills pictured from a seizure in San Diego, Sept. 14,...
I’ll never forget the moment I found out my best friend died of a Fentanyl overdose.I awoke to a bright and vibrating phone at 8:30 a.m. It was an oddly early time for a young person to be receiving a phone call. My social circle...
A woman who was on the most wanted list of a New Hampshire county was apprehended in Maine.34-year-old Lace Meatty of Rochester, New Hampshire had a warrant out for her arrest from the Strafford County New Hampshire Sheriff's Department. Maine State Police arrested Meatty on the...
Nine people were indicted in Brown County Common Pleas Court on April 1. Mary Arvin, 30 and Christopher Darnell, 32 both of Georgetown are charged with multiple drug counts involving Hashish. Both are charged with two counts of Corrupting Another With Drugs, both first degree felonies;...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPNT), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing medicines for addictions and drug overdose, today announced that clinical pharmacokinetic (PK) data for OPNT003, nasal nalmefene containing Intravail® (dodecyl maltoside), were published online in the Journal...
2 accused of trafficking meth, fentanyl near Westbrook school, police say Updated: 7:10 AM EDT Apr 8, 2019 Agents with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and officers with Westbrook police arrested two people Thursday as part of an investigation.Police arrested Aaron Dansky, 34, and Kelly Palmer, 27.Police...
If five pedestrians died at a busy crosswalk in a 72-hour period, or five people died in a week from toxic lettuce, the clocks would stop, as the poets say, the authorities would cluster, everything menial set aside.But five sons or fathers or mothers who...
CINCINNATI — Although the charges Dr. Saad Sakkal faces are serious, he isn't the only local doctor accused of worsening the region's opioid crisis by writing irresponsible prescriptions to vulnerable patients. He isn't even the only one who worked at Lindenwald Medical Associates.The federal case...
At the beginning of a video released by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a police officer is exposed to fentanyl and experiences symptoms of an overdose. The video serves to highlight the risks to first responders who may be exposed to...
Last year, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch secured a guilty plea on a...
Fresh data has shown that PLC’s () Sublocade opioid addiction treatment is more effective at higher doses. Sublocade is a once-monthly injection that Indivior is...
North Bay Police Service SUV. Photo by Stu Campaigne, Moose FM An update on a late February motor vehicle collision and the subsequent investigation that has led North Bay Police Service to lay charges beyond the scope of the collision itself. The crash resulted in Pinewood...
A suspected drug dealer in San Rafael has been arrested for the third time in five months, but this time for a federal indictment. Johnny Earl Henderson, 59, appeared in federal court in San Francisco on Friday to face charges of methamphetamine distribution and being a...
“Bosch” Season 5 is only two weeks away and fans of the police procedural can’t wait for yet another action-packed installment. The story will start...
The following people were recently indicted by a Portage County grand jury. Indictments are only charges and not evidence of guilt: • Joseph Arbogast, 25, of 529 E. Main St., No. 13, Ravenna; driving a vehicle under the influence, a fourth-degree felony, and driving under...
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A Philadelphia man who has been in the Blair County Prison since his arrest for heroin sales in August 2017, stated in a federal petition that he wants help for his mental health problems and he is not getting it.Keith Charles Christian, 45, filed a...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video YORK, Pa. -- York City firefighters say they've seen an uptick in drug overdoses in the past two weeks, and the fire chief thinks he might know why. Specifically, Chief Chad Deardorff says...
COLORADO – By John Herrick for The Colorado Independent. Colorado lawmakers are moving ahead with drug-possession sentencing reforms as part of a broader effort to curb the opioid epidemic and drive down the state's prison population. "We know that addiction is a public health issue,"...
Mary Byberg at a rally in Queen's Park protesting the Ford government's recent cuts to overdose prevention. Mary recently lost her daughter to an overdose. The Globe and Mail Three mothers stricken by the opioids crisis have gathered for a question-and-answer...
In a digital version of broken telephone, the debunked claim that illicit cannabis is now being laced with deadly fentanyl has travelled to the White House from a Vancouver police press release put out four years ago. Twice in the past month, the U.S....
Burlington’s efforts to fight the opioid epidemic have earned the city national attention, with Mayor Miro Weinberger and other officials touting the 50 percent decrease in opioid deaths between 2017 and 2018 in Chittenden County. During Weinberger’s State of the City address Monday, the mayor called on the Legislature to pass H.162,...
Maine State Police said they have arrested a New Hampshire woman who was listed on Strafford County New Hampshire’s most wanted list. In a post on Facebook, state police said they arrested 34-year-old Lace Meatty of Rochester, New Hampshire, at a home in Lebanon on Friday...
Two Monroe County men are facing years in prison after supplying heroin that lead to an overdose death of a mother who died in front of her young son. Two Monroe County men are facing years in prison after supplying heroin that lead to an overdose...
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer wants the federal government to crack down on illegal shipments of fentanyl into the United States by bolstering points of entry here in New York. ...
Chris Mackie, the top public health official for London and Middlesex County, held a Friday press conference with London police chief John Pare to discuss the rash of recent drug overdoses that have killed five London men in the past six days. (MIKE HENSEN,...
Mike Stuart, U.S. Attorney for West Virginia's Southern District, hosted a public safety...
Addiction is a difficult subject to discuss because it is often complex. For one, drug addiction is a law enforcement matter, which brings a moral element to the discussion. Theft is clearly wrong, as is assault. But moral judgment when it comes to drug addiction...
Safe Station designations and NaloxBoxes, among community-based prevention activities designed to combat "the most important public health crisis of our time,” could be in place by summer in Newport. NEWPORT — The Newport Fire Department may soon become a “Safe Station,” a designation that signals its fire...
Posted: Apr. 7, 2019 12:01 am The Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders looks poised...
Shane Jensen died of an opioid overdose on Oct. 5, 2018, but he saved two others: a stranger and his daughter.Jensen’s death contributed to a record year of lives lost from opioids in Reno County, according to Sheriff Randy Henderson. His oldest daughter, Desiree, quit...
A federal judge struck down a lawsuit Thursday that threatened much of the state’s transportation funding, potentially sparing passenger rail service through Altoona — at least for now.A trucking industry group is appealing the Thursday ruling by U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane, which said it’s...
A family dog in Australia survived the harrowing ordeal of swallowing six baggies of heroin. According to an April 6 report by the Daily Mail, a cocker spaniel on a walk with its owner at a park in Brompton, Australia, picked up the bag of drugs...
Recent headlines sweeping across the United States have provided us with the slow but steady release of legal documents detailing how opioid and fentanyl-based painkillers have been marketed to vulnerable populations, such as children, the elderly and veterans. With the opioid epidemic affecting an estimated...
Sunday Apr 7, 2019 at 3:41 AM Our society is crumbling beneath our feet. Not only socially, but economically as well.Immigration is a big, controversial topic in the United States today, so I want to give my take on it. We need to stop illegal immigration and implement stronger laws to get...
There were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a number greater than all American deaths during the entire Vietnam War. Some 28,466 of those involved fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid that is...
China said Monday it could begin regulating all fentanyl-related medication as a class of controlled materials, at an alteration U.S. officials had long advocated as a way to stem the stream of deadly opioids out of China. The change in how China regulates...
With the tenacity of a pet seeking a treat, Blue, Prescott Police Department’s sole K-9, briskly sniffed lockers at Prescott High School on Tuesday morning, April 2. The 3-year-old...
Rich and Janice White knew the opioid crisis affected families across the country,...