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Officials at Mount Carmel Health System says they’ve notified authorities about a doctor accused of giving “significantly excessive and potentially fatal doses” to more than two dozen near-death patients. In a statement Monday, Mount Carmel CEO Edward Lamb said they’ve fired the doctor, identified in...
Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus investigating intensive care doctor. COLUMBUS An intensive care doctor in the Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus has been fired after being accused of giving excessive and potentially fatal doses of the powerful painkiller fentanyl to at least 27 patients...
Some roads were closed in Fresno’s Tower District on Monday afternoon as police searched for evidence at a residence related to a fentanyl investigation.Earlier in the day, a coalition of law enforcement and health officials held a news conference at the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office...
OROVILLE — The man who died Saturday in what Chico police have described as a massive overdose incident has been identified. The Butte County Coroner’s Office said Monday he is Aris Turner, 34, of Chico. The Coroner’s Office said an autopsy is pending, and it was not...
One person died and 12 others were hospitalized in a mass overdose in Chico on Saturday. (Kayla Fitzgerald -- Enterprise-Record) (Photo: Picasa)Butte County officials are trying to determine whether overdoses reported today at the casino in Oroville are related to the mass overdose that happened over...
CLOSE The newest tool in the fight against opioid overdoses is an inexpensive test strip that can detect the presence of a potentially deadly painkiller. (Sept 17) APA Michigan couple is facing murder charges in the Christmas Day death of...
FRESNO, Calif. - A Fresno man is dead, and two other men have been hospitalized, after police said they overdosed on fentanyl last Monday. The opioid...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WBNS-TV) -- A Mount Carmel West doctor, nurse and pharmacist have been accused of ordering and providing lethal doses...
CHICO (CBS13) — The opioid epidemic is hitting close to home. This weekend in Chico one man died and a dozen others were rushed to the hospital after overdosing on fentanyl. The incident happened on the 1100 block of Santana Court. Chico Police Chief Michael O’Brien says...
A California journalist reporting at the scene of a mass overdose was attacked during a live broadcast, footage shows. KRCR reporter Meaghan Mackey was livestreaming a report on fentanyl overdoses in Chico that left at least one dead and 12 hospitalized on Saturday when bystanders interrupted...
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(ABC News) Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. (ABC News) CHICO, Calif. (ABC News) - One person is...
One man dead and 12 more hospitalized after 'mass overdose' in California caused by fentanylAuthorities arrived at a home in Chico around 9am on Saturday after receiving a 911 call from someone insideOne...
A man was killed and 12 other adults were injured after overdosing on what is believed to be fentanyl...
(CNN) — For the first time on record the odds of accidentally dying from an opioid overdose in the United States are now greater than those of dying in an automobile accident. The grim finding comes from the National Safety Council which analyzed preventable injury and...
CHICO -- California authorities believe the powerful opioid fentanyl is responsible for a mass overdose event that left one person dead and hospitalized over a dozen others. Chico police responded to a call at a home on Santana Court early Saturday morning. When they arrived they...
One person is dead and 12 others hospitalized after suspected fentanyl overdoses in California that sickened two responding police officers, authorities said. Of the 12 overdose victims, four remained in critical condition hours after authorities responded to a 911 call around 9 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday at...
More people died nationwide of drug overdoses in 2017 than ever before, with a high concentration of those deaths in mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. (Photo: DNY59, Getty Images/iStockphoto)For the first time ever, Americans' odds of dying from an accidental opioid overdose are higher than from a...
Image: GettyIn Northern California, a “mass causality overdose” caused by fentanyl has left one dead and 12 hospitalized, with four of the victims in critical condition.According to NBC News, authorities in Chico, California were called at 9 a.m. on January 13 and arrived to...
The Daily Mail is reporting one man dead and 12 more hospitalized after ‘mass overdose’ in California caused by fentanyl. According to The Sacramento Bee, authorities arrived at a home on the 1100 block of Santana Court around 9am on Saturday after receiving a 911 call from someone...
A two-month-old infant narrowly survived a fentanyl overdose in a Sherbrooke, Que. hospital after she was given nearly three times the necessary dose by hospital staff, according to a medical report reviewed by Radio-Canada."The doctor told us, if she had been in a room elsewhere else, if she had...
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CHICO, Calif. — A mass drug overdose at a home in Chico, California, has killed one person and sent more than a dozen people to hospitals, police said. Chico Police Chief Michael O’Brien said the main substance involved is believed to be fentanyl — the most...
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Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 13, 2019, 9:44 PM GMT / Updated Jan. 13, 2019, 9:45 PM GMTBy Daniella SilvaThe chief of a Northern California police department investigating what is suspected to be a...
A mass fentanyl overdose incident in Northern California on Saturday left one dead and at least a dozen others hospitalized.At a news conference, Chico, California police captain Mike O’Brien said one man died at the scene and four other victims are in critical condition, reported...
Police in Northern California responded to a “mass casualty overdose” situation on Saturday that resulted in one death and a dozen people hospitalized.Authorities said that the incident was caused by exposure to the deadly opioid fentanyl, which also affected two responding officers, according to NBC...
Police said a mass overdose at a residence in Chico, California, has caused one death and 12 people to be hospitalized, adding that the number of fatalities could still rise. “Certainly there is potential for additional fatalities, I want to emphasize that,” Chico Police Chief Michael...
It could be considered more than a little perverse to greet the news of a fentanyl overdose event in Chico with a demand that drugs should now be legalised. But it is actually logical to do so. For what has killed here is the dosage...
A “mass overdose” in a California home Saturday morning left one person dead and another 12 hospitalized after police say the victims may have ingested fentanyl, a powerful opioid.Chico Police Chief Michael O’Brien said at a press conference that police received a 911 call from someone...
CHICO, Calif. — Around 9 a.m., Chico Police and Fire departments responded to a house in the 1100 block of Santana...
One person is dead and a dozen others were rushed to the hospital after an apparent mass fentanyl overdose in Chico, California, on Saturday morning. Four of those taken to the hospital are in critical condition, according to authorities. Police called the 13 people "friends and...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 13, 2019, 4:05 AM GMTBy Dennis RomeroA man died Saturday and 12 people were hospitalized in what authorities in Northern California described as a mass casualty overdose...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 13, 2019, 4:05 AM GMTBy Dennis RomeroA man died Saturday and 12 people were hospitalized in what authorities in Northern California described as a mass casualty overdose...
One person is dead and 14 others hospitalized after a mass drug overdose incident in Chico, Calif., that law enforcement said...
DARKE COUNTY – After nearly 200 drug overdoses reported in 2017, Darke County saw the numbers decline for 2018. Though the reduction in OD calls sound encouraging to the community, law enforcement are well aware of the reason…a rise in methamphetamine use. In 2017, fentanyl-laced heroin...
From staff reports Published 3:30 p.m. CT Jan. 11, 2019 Keith Joseph Payne (Photo: Courtesy of Santa Rosa County Jail)A 25-year-old man who admitted he may have been...
TOMS RIVER, NJ — A Toms River man is accused of being high on fentanyl and morphine when he crashed head-on into a woman's car on New Hampshire Avenue last year, killing her, the Ocean County prosecutor's office said Friday.Daniel Reed,...
Two convicted drug traffickers are back behind bars after agents overheard them talking in a holding cell about the motel they had used to store and package a large cache of drugs.According to Jan. 10 federal charges, police pulled over Jesus Rodriguez and Ramon Fabela...
The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey launched a campaign to raise awareness for fentanyl and its dangers. In response to the number of drug overdose deaths reaching over 3,000 in New Jersey, the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey launched a campaign to raise awareness...
Kyle Stucker @KyleStucker DOVER — A Rochester woman was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in state prison Thursday after pleading guilty to sneaking fentanyl into the county jail and providing it to a woman who died after using the drug.Kerry Guay, 32,...
As of Saturday, at 22 days in, the government shutdown over a border wall becomes the longest in U.S. history. And as President Donald Trump dominated the media narrative this week with a prime-time speech from the Oval Office, a trip to the border, and nearly...
Adrienne Tanner is a Vancouver journalist who writes about civic affairs After a unanimous vote to approve a groundbreaking opioid-overdose reduction strategy, including a space to provide opioid users with a safe drug supply, Vancouver’s city council joined hands in the middle of council...
