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China has said it will clamp down on fentanyl production after pleas from President Trump. There is little doubt that China is the main source of the powerful opioid fentanyl. Most legal supply and illicit trade starts in China. But I’m skeptical that China will be that effective...
A 21-year-old Stoney Creek man is facing heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine possession charges after a traffic stop early Wednesday.Shortly after midnight, Hamilton police say they pulled over a grey Mazda 3 “operating in a suspicious manner” in the area of Barton...
President Donald Trump and his minions cooked up a fake national security crisis to justify diverting billions of dollars to build a bigger, wider border wall to keep out of the hordes of immigrants he imagines marching across the deserts, hills and prairies between established...
China has banned all forms of the opioid fentanyl, following a promise President Xi Jinping made to President Donald Trump last year, The New York Times reports. Much of the world’s fentanyl is believed to be made in China, and the drug increasingly became a point...
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2:56 PM 04/01/2019 | WorldGraeme Gallagher | Contributor The Chinese government will ban all types of fentanyl-related substances by adding it to their list of controlled drugs, according to CNN. Largely believed to be made mostly in China, the ban will take effect on May 1...
China will expand the range of fentanyl-related substances it defines as controlled narcotics, a Chinese security official said on Monday, blaming U.S. culture for abuse of the drug.U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized China for allowing fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, to...
BEIJING — China announced on Monday that it would treat all variants of the powerful opioid fentanyl as controlled substances, making good on a pledge the country’s leader, President Xi Jinping, made to President Trump late last year.China’s export of the drug, a family of...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.)Good morning,We’re covering President Trump’s plan to close the border with Mexico, a woman’s accusation against Joe Biden and the details of New York State’s $175 billion budget.A border threat from President TrumpIt would take “something...
The new laws are likely to be interpreted as win for US President Donald Trump, who has taken a strong stance against fentanyl and was full of praise for China in December 2018 when President Xi Jinping first agreed to the move."This could be a...
Image Source: img.thedailybeast Kellyanne Conway, the presidential counsellor suggests that cannabis is laced with fentanyl. “People are unwittingly ingesting it,” Conway said during a press conference in a discussion about fentanyl. “It’s laced into heroin, marijuana, meth, cocaine and it’s also just being distributed by itself.” Kellyanne, a chief player...
Synthetic opioids outlast current antidotes. A nanoparticle-based alternative could fix that.A newly developed single-dose opioid antidote lasts several days, a study in mice shows. If the results can be duplicated in humans, the treatment may one day help prevent overdoses from deadly drugs like fentanyl.Normally,...
The Woodstock Police Service made a rare warning after they responded to a number of fentanyl overdoses in Woodstock in the past 48 hours.Police said Saturday evening they’d received “a significant number fentanyl overdoses in the City of Woodstock.”The release said they seized substances with...
Police have arrested more than 20 people in six local communities as part...
GLENDALE, AZ — A Glendale man and his pregnant girlfriend have been indicted in a federal drug trafficking case, accused of mailing counterfeit opioid pain pills across the country. Jacob Medina, 26, and his pregnant girlfriend, Diane Erika Marin, were arrested March 4 at their...
Opinion writers weigh in on these public health issues and other health issues. Los Angeles Times: Mr. President, The Real National Emergency Is Fentanyl President Trump and his minions cooked up a fake national security crisis to justify diverting billions of dollars to build a bigger, wider border...
CONCORD – U.S. Attorney Scott Murray said Steven Moore, 36, of Plymouth, New Hampshire, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Court filings and statements made in court established that Moore and Samantha Merrifield arranged to sell...
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Fentanyl has been linked to a growing number of drug overdose deaths in New Orleans, mirroring a trend seen nationally in recent years.While the number of drug-related overdose deaths in New Orleans involving opiates in general has remained relatively steady (168 deaths last year,...
The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office is the latest local law enforcement agency to train its officers to carry and administer the life-saving drug naloxone. With exposure to the deadly opiate substance fentanyl on the rise, and the number of overdoses continuing to climb, the agency...
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BUFFALO -- A federal jury in Buffalo has convicted the last two members...
The Scales of Justice statue at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. Chad Aaron Bissat is going to jail for four years after police seized a large cache of drugs from him, including more than 600 fentanyl pills. Jason Payne / PNG A Kamloops man who was convicted...
By Nick Blank GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Two Clay County men accused of buying the drugs that killed an Orange Park teenager in 2016 received one-year sentences last Monday after they cooperated with a federal case against Trumaine Muller. Tyler Hamilton and Christopher Williams appeared briefly before...
AutoplayShow ThumbnailsShow CaptionsLast SlideNext SlideStory HighlightsSyringe exchange participants are 5X more likely to seek addiction treatment.Needle exchange helps prevent the spread of hepatitis and HIV.There are fewer dangerous dirty needles littering Louisville because of the syringe exchange program.A tall and slender woman with sunken cheeks...
It’s too early to say whether the 31-per-cent decrease in B.C.’s number of overdose deaths in January due to fentanyl in illicit drugs means that there may be an end in sight to the public health emergency.We can only hope that, finally, policymakers will be...
Two officers from the Phoenix police department were taken to a hospital Tuesday night due to possible exposure to a substance believed to be fentanyl.The Phoenix Police Department confirmed that the two officers came across a “white powdery substance” after they arrested a subject near 43rd Avenue...
(3TV/CBS 5) - Last month, a Scottsdale high schooler almost died.A frantic dad called...
WESTERLY — Two central Connecticut women are facing drug charges after police found them...
The Ottawa Police Service is investigating a spate of suspected drug overdoses, three of which were fatal.Over the course of 14 hours on Monday, police responded to five separate incidents involving six individuals requiring emergency medical treatment. Two of the suspected...
On March 16 the Vermont-based site VTDigger became the latest news platform to share a breathless story about a police officer overdosing via a brief incidental exposure to drugs. In this case Sgt. Brett Flansburg “collected a small quantity of heroin in a plastic baggie”...
(Reuters) - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and members of the wealthy Sackler family that own the company have reached a $270 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing Purdue of helping fuel the opioid abuse epidemic, people familiar with...
Ottawa police vehicle. Wayne Cuddington / Postmedia Two people died Monday in accidental overdoses involving what police suspect was fentanyl-laced cocaine.In all, police and other responders were called to three incidents over 14 hours involving five people who had apparently taken the tainted narcotics, acting Insp. François D’Aoust...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new CDC report on fentanyl shows fatal overdoses...
MARTINSBURG — A federal grand jury has indicted 33 individuals for their alleged...
MARTINSBURG — Two South Carolina women were indicted this month in federal court...
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Two South Carolina women were charged this month by a...
The synthetic opioid, typically used to tranquilize elephants, is considered to be 100 times stronger than fentanyl. BROCKTON — A city teenager is facing charges of trafficking carfentanil, a synthetic opioid that is 100 times more power than fentanyl.In total, police say they seized more than...
(Reuters) - Oklahoma’s top court on Monday declined to delay a landmark trial set for May in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit accusing OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and two other drugmakers of helping fuel an opioid abuse and overdose epidemic in the state. FILE PHOTO: The...
Learn the Answer in a New Webinar From Manatt and the AMA, “Ending the Opioid Epidemic: Leading-Edge Responses and Next Steps.” Click Here to Register Free—and Join Us on March 27 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET. Between 1999 and 2017, more than 700,000 people...
TUCSON, Ariz. – Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before falling asleep forever. He became yet another victim killed by a flood of illicit fentanyl smuggled from Mexico by the Sinaloa...
In an unexpected twist, the sentencing in a landmark fentanyl case is on hold. “There is no justice.” Denise Lane,...
BROCKTON (CBS) — An 18-year-old man from Brockton was arrested after Mass. State Police said they found about $42,000 worth of fentanyl in his bedroom. Etimilson Cabral was arrested Friday. The State Police Gang Unit initially obtained a warrant for Cabral’s car and anyone in it....
The unfortunate news is out. According to official statistics, Fentanyl related deaths have increased by 1,000% from 2011 to 2016. The largest increase ever recorded in US history. The numbers are alarming and call for a cause for concern. If no preventive measures are taken,...
BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A Brockton man is facing drug trafficking and weapons charges after state police say they found thousands of dollars worth of fentanyl and carfentanil during a search of his home. After a drug investigation by the State Police Gang Unit led to...
Cocaine has taken a backseat during the opioid epidemic, but officials say in the past year they've seen an uptick in cocaine activity. QUINCY — In the wake of three people charged with cocaine trafficking in Weymouth and Quincy last week in separate investigations, officials say...
Illicit drugs, rather than prescription medications, have accounted for an increasing proportion of deaths from opioids. Heroin- and fentanyl-related deaths have been rising much faster than the medication-related ones, and more and more opioid abusers are starting with heroin. Patients...
Authorities are investigating the case of an Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee accused of slipping LSD into his co-workers’ water bottles. A 19-year-old man is in custody in connection with the incident, which allegedly took place at an Enterprise Rent-A-Car location in Arnold, Missouri, last Thursday, March 21,...