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An attorney from Downey has been charged with selling painkillers that she advertised on Craigslist, federal authorities said Tuesday. Jackie Ferrari, 36, was arrested Friday following a five-month investigation that was triggered by the fatal overdose of a 22-year-old woman she allegedly sold drugs to, authorities...
Shane Wayne Landis, 47, 900 block of Southeast Nassau Avenue, Stuart; warrant for failure to appear, CF case management, sale or delivery of fentanyl, possession of fentanyl, unlawful use of a two-way communications device.Nathan Jereme Hicks, 37, no listed street address, city; warrant for DUI...
Oxycodone pain pills are on display on March 23, 2016 in Norwich, Conn. (Credit: John Moore/Getty Images) Oxycodone pain pills are on display on March 23, 2016 in Norwich, Conn. (Credit: John Moore/Getty Images) A Los Angeles area attorney...
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A Waukegan man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to allegations he sold a combination of heroin and fentanyl to a Mundelein man who later died from an overdose. Darryl Henderson, 28, faces up to 30 years in prison if found guilty of a drug-induced homicide charge stemming...
A beloved 11-year-old Haverhill girl who slipped into a coma and died last month after a sleepover at her great-uncle’s single-room apartment tested positive for fentanyl in her system, officials at Lawrence General Hospital told investigators, a police report released today states. Miguel Rivera, 58, who...
Doctors who receive direct payments from opioid manufacturers tend to prescribe more opioids than doctors who receive no such payments, new research shows. The report, published in the journal Addiction, found that the association between payments and prescribing is strongest for hydrocodone and oxycodone, the most...
Levy Co., Fla. (WCJB)-- A simple traffic stop quickly turned into an investigation for Levy County deputies after a deputy saw a vehicle failed to make a complete stop at a stop sign. According to deputies, on the night of January 18th, Rebecca Carter, 24, failed...
COLUMBUS – Attorneys representing several families of patients who are believed to have died after receiving excessive doses of fentanyl have identified the youngest patient to date – a 37-year-old man.Attorney Craig Tuttle says 37-year old James Nickolas Timmons was brought into Mount Carmel West...
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Preliminary numbers from the Department of Health and Social Services show Alaska gained ground in the fight against opioids between 2017 and 2018. The welcomed numbers show what state officials are calling significant decreases in deaths from fentanyl and opioid-related overdoses -- but...
YOUNGSTOWN Shortly before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw a need to move the focus of the civil-rights movement in what many...
PureRadiancePhoto / Shutterstock.com As Purdue Pharmaceutical’s OxyContin has become the poster child for opioid addiction, so too has another drug become synonymous with efforts to save people who have overdosed on those drugs – Narcan, developed by California-based Opiant Pharmaceuticals. Narcan is widely provided to first responders...
As the end drew near, Carey Dean Moore’s face turned red, and then purple. He breathed heavily, according to the witnesses who were there to see it, and coughed. Roughly 20 minutes later, he died.In his final weeks, the two-time killer had given up efforts...
The crisis of opioid addiction has captured the attention of the public, lawmakers and the medical community. But while progress is being made against over-prescribing opioid painkillers, street drugs laced with fentanyl are becoming more common and more deadly.Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid much more...
Three men in the United Kingdom (UK) who ran a business selling potentially lethal drugs on the dark web were sentenced Jan. 18 to a total of more than four decades in prison, according to the National Crime Agency. Photo: National Crime AgencyJake Levene, Lee...
Three dark web drug dealers have been sentenced to a total of over 43 years for supplying hundreds of customers worldwide with notorious opioid fentanyl. Jake Levene, 22, Lee Childs, 45, and Mandy Christopher Lowther, 21, were sentenced last week at Leeds Crown Court after pleading...
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The RCMP has laid additional charges against people who were allegedly part of a drug trafficking "conspiracy" linked to a Mountain pharmacy, where hundreds of thousands of prescription pills were sold on the black market."This investigation has uncovered a scheme that saw the diversion of...
CHICO, California -- The first victim was outside the house, sprawled on a patio beside the garage. His friends were already performing CPR when Chico police got to the scene.The others are inside, they told police.Four more...
Share this article:Sheriff’s deputies in Lynwood helped save the lives of five men in two separate incidents who had overdosed on fentanyl, authorities said Monday. The first overdoses occurred Friday night, when deputies went to a residence in the 2600 block of 108th Street on a...
The City of Alexandria responded to four suspected opioid overdoses in 72 hours, including the deaths of two women.“We have created spike alert system, where when we see a certain number within a certain amount of time, we know that there could be a public...
CLOSE Nashville police have used Narcan to reverse 14 overdoses since last summer. Here are three of those stories. Brett Kelman, The TennesseanKINGSTON — A free training in Kingston next month will prepare North Kitsap residents to save lives in...
The RCMP have dismantled an alleged drug trafficking ring in Hamilton that they say diverted hundreds of thousands of doses of narcotics – including thousands of fentanyl patches and oxycodone pills – from pharmacies to the black market. In total, police said more than...
Brantford police released an image of a semi-automatic handgun they recovered on Friday. A 22-year-old Bradford, Ont., man is facing drug and firearm charges after Brantford police found a vehicle reported stolen on Friday.Police said the man is charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking...
A drug overdose-rescue kit from a training session on how to administer naloxone, an opioid-overdose antidote. (Carolyn Thompson/AP) Patricia Sullivan Reporter covering government, politics and other regional issues in...
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JACKSONVILLE, Ore. – On Wednesday, Max’s Mission will be passing out Naloxone kits and fentanyl testing strips for free. The nasal spray naloxone can reverse an opioid overdose. According to Jackson County Public Health, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent...
An influential British Columbia labour union is calling on the B.C. government to launch a public inquiry into organized crime, opioids and money laundering in the province.And while the B.C. NDP government has been resisting demands for such an inquiry, party...
SPRINGFIELD - Two men will be arraigned Tuesday on manslaughter charges in connection with the overdose death of David Simonoko in Ludlow in March.Bradley S. Hoffmeier, 23, of Ludlow, and Vashon B. Robinson, 23, face the involuntary...
A passerby’s video of Tallahassee Police making a shoplifting arrest Thursday showed a toddler climbing out the driver's side door of a pick-up truck and walking barefoot with her hands up over her head toward officers with their guns drawn. As the video ricocheted around social media...
. (Photo: .)Muskingum County Common PleasJudge Mark FleegleRyan M. Viney, 41, Ross Correctional institution, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated riot, a third-degree felonyAlexis R. Stoneburner, 24, Roseville, pleaded guilty to one count of trafficking methamphetamine, a third-degree felonySchuyler J. Green 22, Zanesville, pleaded guilty...
A real life version of “Breaking Bad” that was playing out in China has witnessed its own “series finale.” A self-taught man, with only a middle school education, was described by police as surpassing the skills of some organized gangs in manufacturing methamphetamine. A man by...
One out of every 96 Americans will die from an opioid overdose, according to a 2017 report released by the National Safety Council, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to “eliminate preventable deaths.” The odds of dying from an opioid overdose have surpassed the one in 103...
CLOSE TPD is reviewing this video to determine if its officers did indeed point guns at a very young child. Special to the Democrat, Tallahassee DemocratA passerby’s video of Tallahassee Police making a shoplifting arrest Thursday showed a toddler...
Drug abuse is an alarming global crisis. Reports suggest that each day over 130 people die of an opioid overdose in the US. Opioids are a class of drugs that are primarily used in medication for pain relief including anaesthesia, however,...
LISBON — Amber N. McCauley, one of the Operation Big Oak defendants, was sentenced to nine months in the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville by Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton last week..McCauley, 30, East Fourth Street, East Liverpool, previously pleaded guilty to three...
Jim McCully: The Right StuffIn the stentorian and oh-so self-important voice of our mainstream media we are treated to another of, what seems, and everlasting...
The nonprofit group Max's Mission will give out test strips that can detect whether street drugs are laced with fentanyl -- the deadliest drug in America.The giveaway will take place from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Medford library, 205 S. Central Ave.Max's Mission...
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Editor’s note: This commentary is by Joseph McSherry, M.D., Ph.D., who is an associate professor of neurological sciences at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. You do not need to be a doctor to understand that if you remove someone’s liver...
The anti-narcotic cell (ANC) of Mumbai police, probing the smuggling of Rs 1,000 crore banned fentanyl, has invoked Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections of cheating, forgery and breach of trust after learning that the accused had forged documents and procure the banned drug. Sources said...
Between the Oroville dam evacuation, the Camp Fire and the occasional flash flood in our area, local law enforcement officials, firefighters and medical personnel have encountered just about every nightmare known to man the past two years. But, chances are nothing prepared them for what police...