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Detectives executed a search warrant at a Canton Street home along with a MetroLEC SWAT team. STOUGHTON — Four people were arrested late Friday afternoon when detectives executed a search warrant along with a SWAT team.The arrests were the result of an investigation by Stoughton police...
Jon Oxenford, 25, of East Palo Alto BY EMILY MIBACHDaily Post Staff Writer An East Palo Alto man has been charged with selling fentanyl to a San Carlos woman who later died from the drug, a prosecutor said yesterday. Jon Oxenford, 25, is believed to have sold 32-year-old...
Baby overdoses on fentanyl - Video - CityNews Montreal Baby overdoses on fentanyl A Sherbrooke...
69 News 69 News BETHLEHEM, Pa. - After arresting two suspected customers, Bethlehem police on Thursday arrested an Allentown man and seized hundreds of heroin...
It's not clear why women are becoming disproportionately affected. (iStock)The drug overdose death rate among women in the U.S. has greatly increased, according to data released...
Starbucks employees are worried about the danger of being stuck with used syringes discarded in store bathrooms. More than 3,700 people had signed a petition requesting safe syringe disposal in the stores’ bathrooms as of Friday. The petition cited fear of exposure to infectious diseases like...
Perry Botto and family members gather in December to remember the lives of his daughter Jeanette Botto and her mother Teresa. Jeanette died of an overdose in 2016, and her mother killed herself while grieving months later. (Cal Cary/For The Washington Post) ...
BEL AIR, Md. (WJZ) — Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler is asking for politicians to stop the bickering to to secure the U.S. southern border. Gahler believes the southern border is the source of drugs — heroin and other opioids particularly — that have been “creeping...
Police officers seized thousands of opioid tablets and several kilograms worth of crystal meth and cocaine when they raided an apartment in Grande Prairie, Alta., earlier this week, the RCMP said on Thursday.“Grande Prairie RCMP executed a search warrant on an...
LAREDO, Texas (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — San Antonio stations KABB and WOAI along with Sinclair Broadcast Group hosted the second town hall meeting in a 12-part series to raise awareness of America's deadly opioid crisis.The Thursday event took place just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border in...
President Trump speaks to the media as he tours the U.S. border with Mexico at the Rio Grande on Jan. 10 in McAllen, Tex. (Evan Vucci/AP) Watching the struggle over funding for a border...
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MILLBURN, NJ — In response to the crisis that has claimed thousands of New Jersey residents in the past four years alone, the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) has launched a media campaign to make families aware of the fentanyl outbreak in New...
A chief in charge of emergency medical services at the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District was charged Thursday with crimes including embezzlement after he was caught stealing narcotics from the agency, officials said. ...
SAN CARLOS — Authorities have arrested a man they say supplied the widely abused painkiller fentanyl to a woman who died of an overdose last fall, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. But while sheriff’s investigators sought to implicate the suspect in the death,...
Shannon McGuigan (Photo: Photo provided)MOUNT HOLLY - An alleged drug dealer has been indicted in connection with the fatal overdose of a Pemberton Township woman.Shannon McGuigan, 33, is accused of selling heroin laced with fentanyl to the 26-year-old victim in May 2017, said the Burlington County Prosecutor's...
More than $200,000 in drugs, cash and firearms were seized during a drug sweep at several locations on Aug. 7 (Photo: Shelly Schultz)ZANESVILLE - One of eight individuals involved in a major drug trafficking raid was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week.Monte E. Smith,...
More than $200,000 in drugs, cash and firearms were seized during a drug sweep at several locations on Aug. 7 (Photo: Shelly Schultz)ZANESVILLE - One of eight individuals involved in a major drug trafficking raid was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week.Monte E. Smith,...
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As the number of drug overdose deaths continues to rise, the social awareness of the epidemic has as well. Even celebrities are opening about their addiction issues. The drug epidemic, however, has affected far more people than previously thought. Death by drug overdose is classically more...
America's drug crisis is taking a deadly toll on a group you might not expect: middle-aged women. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that drug overdose deaths among females aged 30 to 64 have skyrocketed in recent years. According to...
WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) – The executive director of a black civil rights group Wednesday said a prominent Democratic donor is not being prosecuted after two men were found dead in his West Hollywood apartment because the victims were gay black men. A man – identified as 55-year-old...
While traditional criminal organizations have widened their portfolios dramatically in recent years, drug trafficking remains the most important earner in the region. And with opioid consumption surging and cocaine production at a record high, the underworld is...
WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) – The executive director of a black civil rights group Wednesday said a prominent Democratic donor is not being prosecuted after two men were found dead in his West Hollywood apartment because the victims were gay black men. A man – identified as 55-year-old...
At high doses opioids, particularly fentanyl, causes rapid cessation of breathing, respiratory failure and death, the physiologic sequence by which people commonly succumb from an unintentional opioid overdose. Yet most times death can be prevented through early detection and timely intervention if naloxone is administered...
Charlottesville resident Jordan McNeish knows the perils of opioid addiction first-hand. Three years ago, he was on an East Coast road trip with his ex-girlfriend, and the plan was to end up in Maine. But their first stop was Baltimore, to buy heroin. McNeish, 29, says...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 9, 2019 / In this post, Dr. Najib Babul, an experienced pharmaceutical scientist, drug developer, inventor and consultant discusses the use of fentanyl test strips (FTS) to reduce opioid overdose complications and death. More than 2.1...
Rates of substance use disorder have continued to grow in the United States and studies have shown that 10-15% of health care professionals abuse substances at some point in their lifetime. Many individuals working in the health care field are dealing with patients, so these...
BOSTON (AP) — The former chief executive of a company that produces a potentially addictive fentanyl spray pleaded guilty Wednesday to scheming with his colleagues to bribe doctors into increasing prescriptions to boost sales. Former Insys Therapeutics CEO Michael Babich also agreed to cooperate with federal...
by Jessica Stringfield, WKRCThree arrested for outstanding warrants, possession of fentanyl, meth (Butler County Sheriff's Office)CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Three people were arrested Jan. 8 on outstanding warrants and drug possession. During the traffic stop at Park Ave. and F St. in Hamilton, Butler County Police...
U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier sentenced Anthony John Tozer, 33, on Tuesday in Fargo to 300 months in confinement after pleading guilty to a controlled substance crime that resulted in the death of Faith Burns, a 20-year-old woman who died Dec. 17, 2017, after ingesting...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Wednesday to engaging in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication and has agreed to become a government witness. FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug...
A new software system for smartphones can quickly and unobtrusively detect early signs of opioid overdoses, according to a new study. The software successfully identified respiratory depression (a hallmark symptom of overdose) in opioid users in an injection facility and during simulated overdoses (mimicked by...
Here’s what the president said, and how it stacks up against the facts.“The federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only: because Democrats will not fund border security.”False.Democrats have offered $1.3 billion in funding for border security measures like enhanced surveillance...
U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier sentenced Anthony John Tozer, 33, on Tuesday in Fargo to 300 months behind bars after pleading guilty to a controlled substance crime that resulted in the death of Faith Burns, a 20-year-old woman who died Dec. 17, 2017, after ingesting...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc is expected on Wednesday to plead guilty to participating in a scheme to pay doctors bribes in exchange for prescribing an addictive opioid medication. FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made...
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump held court front and center on Tuesday night as he delivered remarks from the Oval Office in the hopes of convincing the American public and skeptical lawmakers that there is a crisis at the southern border....
Antoun Moore was made eligible for parole at his sentencing for dealing the deadly synthetic opioid. The Erie County District Attorney's Office is pushing for a harsher sentence for a convicted fentanyl dealer who was made eligible for parole at his sentencing last week.The defendant, 20-year-old...
President Donald Trump gave his first primetime address from the Oval Office on Tuesday night to pitch his border wall to the American public.The address came amid a partial government shutdown in its third week – with no clear end in sight.During his address, Trump...
By Olivia Neeley olivia@wilsontimes.com | 252-265-7879 State officials say North Carolina saw an increase in unintentional opioid-related overdose deaths in 2017 compared to the previous year. And it was due to the increase of potent illicit drugs including heroin and fentanyl. There were 1,884 unintentional opioid-related overdose...
WASHINGTON (AP) President Trump delivered his first prime-time address from the Oval Office Tuesday night, reiterating that there is a “crisis” at the southern border but offering no new policy or approach. He did not declare a national emergency, as he has been considering. The partial government...
Trump: "The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico."The President has made this false claim before. Trump long ago abandoned his 2016 campaign promise that Mexico would pay to build a wall. Instead, he...
In a prime-time address from the Oval Office, President Trump argued there is a "crisis of the heart" when it comes to border security. He pressed Congress yet again to pass $5.7 billion for the U.S.-Mexico border, a demand...
In his prime-time speech to the nation, President Donald Trump wrongly accused Democrats of refusing to pay for border...
President Donald Trump was holding court front and center Tuesday night as he delivered remarks from the Oval Office in the hope of convincing the American public and skeptical lawmakers that there is a crisis at the southern border. His goal: to secure billions of dollars...