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Eileen Whalen, president of the UVM Medical Center board of trustees, talks to reporters at a press conference on Jan. 4, 2019. Photo by Aidan Quigley/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — The University of Vermont Medical Center admitted seven patients to the emergency room who had overdosed in a...
Opioid addiction has reached such crisis levels that treatment experts are increasingly helping addicts fight their drug addiction with other drugs. It’s controversial, but it’s an idea being encouraged by the head of the New Jersey Reentry Corporation. Former Gov. Jim McGreevey recently talked about...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A historic case played out in South Dakota's federal court system Friday.A young woman received the first 20-year mandatory minimum prison sentence...
Welcome to InSight Crime’s Criminal GameChangers 2018, where we highlight the most important trends in organized crime in the Americas over the course of the year. From a rise in illicit drug availability and resurgence of monolithic...
A Saskatoon man received a 10-year prison sentence for possessing as much as $2 million worth of drugs including fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine and cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.The total estimated street value of the drugs seized from Wayne Ngai’s stash apartment on Third Avenue...
CLOSE The opioid crisis in the United States continues to take center stage as the National Institute on Drug Abuse says more than 115 people die of an opioid overdose every day. Buzz60More people died nationwide of drug overdoses...
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New test strips that allow drug users to determine whether street drugs are laced with fentanyl are being met with both praise and skepticism. >> Read more trending news Fentanyl is...
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CNN’s latest reports regarding the fight against opioid crisis are pretty interesting. It seems that there’s a new controversial tool that emerged in the battle against overdose-related deaths. It is a strip that lets people who are using street drugs such as heroin and cocaine...
Two people are facing charges following the largest fentanyl seizure London police have ever made.On Wednesday at around 8 p.m., officers with the Guns and Drugs section observed suspicious activity by a man in a rental vehicle in the area of...
Baroda-Lake Township police managed to make a drug bust during a traffic stop on I-94 on Wednesday. The Baroda-Lake Township Police Department tells us Officer John Hopkins stopped a vehicle for speeding on westbound 94 near mile marker 17 around 10:30 a.m. and did a...
London police have made the largest seizure of the hyper-potent opioid fentanyl in city history, taking more than $295,000 of the oft-deadly drug off the streets.Members of the police guns and drugs section seized powdered fentanyl along with two naloxone kits – an overdose antidote...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville Metro Police, with the help of a clever K9, halted a dangerous drug operation in its tracks.According...
Terrorists could potentially use fentanyl – a synthetic opioid mainly produced in China that is the primary source of the fatal overdose epidemic in the United States – as a “weapon of mass destruction,” Bloomberg News recently reported, citing experts and echoing other articles. On December...
Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pa. - The holidays are about spending time with family and loved ones, but for some, it's a reminder of who they've lost to addiction.Marianne Sinisi lost her son, Shawn,...
Kristen Young @KristenCCT BARNSTABLE — A Hyannis man pleaded not guilty Monday in Barnstable District Court to charges of fentanyl trafficking after a Yarmouth police officer conducting a traffic stop found more than 25 grams of the drug in his possession, according to...
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Lisman - For the fourth consecutive year, drug overdose deaths have reached a new record high in Luzerne County. The county had 156 overdose deaths in 2018, with the potential for an additional nine awaiting toxicology analysis, the coroner’s office said. In comparison, there were 155 overdose...
Barely a week after completing training to recognize opioid overdose symptoms and how to administer a lifesaving antidote, Emeryville Police Officers were put to the test. Emeryville Police Department vehicles had just recently been equipped with doses of Naloxone, a drug proven to counteract the symptoms...
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All illicit drugs should be regulated to avoid situations such as a recent incident in which a buyer seeking cocaine was sold a white powder tested as 20% fentanyl, a Vancouver Coastal Health medical officer says. “In public health, we believe all psychoactive...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Little Rock based program is on a mission to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths...
Fentanyl detection strips More News Headlines LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) - A new tool meant to reduce opioid overdose deaths...
Two people accused of supplying fentanyl and needles to a man who injected the drug and died several days later have reached agreements to plead guilty to a federal drug charge, according to documents in U.S. District Court in Portland. Earl Cormier, 39, of Biddeford, is...
AUGUSTA — A Hallowell man and Pittson woman were charged with drug trafficking in Hallowell and Augusta. Ryan J. Partridge, 29, also known as “Moon,” was arrested Monday and charged with four counts of aggravated trafficking in schedule W drugs, two charges of which involved heroin...
INDIANAPOLIS — A new tool is emerging to battle the scour of overdose deaths that lead directly to the powerful synthetic drug, fentanyl. Drug users can now test to see whether the drug they are about to inject is in fact fentanyl. Lena Severance, 35,...
By: Bharani Padmaabhan – Dec. 2018 Federal agencies including SAMHSA and the DEA released data for years documenting that overdose deaths were due to illegally-imported fentanyl and Heroin®. Despite the wide availability of real data, Charlie Baker and Marylou Sudders chose to defame, demonize and destroy...
Maryland’s Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved a deal in which outside lawyers will help the state investigate...
The Homeland Security Department late last month was ordered to reexamine precautions against the risk...
SPRINGFIELD — Ryan Doyle, 28, of Hampden, on Wednesday denied a manslaughter charge in Hampden Superior Court.Doyle is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the July 5 overdose death of Alex LaFleur in Tolland.Doyle was also indicted for...
Opioids are typically associated with the deadly fentanyl overdose epidemic. Yet at the highest level of international pro cycling, competitors often numb their pain with a controversial opioid called tramadol despite dangerous risks.On January 1, 2019, the international cycling federation added tramadol to its list...
Editor's note: The following story, which opens BarrieToday's seven-part series into the local opioid crisis, contains strong language and situations which may not be suitable to some readers. ************************* Scott (not his real name) is running about a half-hour late to our interview. When he arrives,...
If the drugs test positive, they might choose not to use them or choose to use less of them.According to a new report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America and was linked to nearly...
Mac Miller's charity is 'well on its way to raise $1M after it rakes in $350K to help underserved youth' four months after his death at age 26By Jabeen Waheed For Mailonline Published: ...
The growing use of fentanyl — as an additive to other drugs or taken by itself — has contributed to the rising number of deaths. “Fentanyl...
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — It was a popular drug in the 80s, but cocaine is making a comeback with a deadly twist.Cocaine is killing more people in Florida more than any other drug.The reason? It's being laced with fentanyl.Many families are still feeling the...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) Should Vermont regulators have been aware sooner of systemic management problems at four senior residential facilities in South Burlington and St. Albans? Hundreds of residents and families are still unsure of who will run the Pillsbury homes after the state took temporary receivership...
In an unprecedented move to inform the public, police and emergency services gathered July 25 with health officials and representatives of the offices of the Crown attorney and regional coroner to put a spotlight on a spike in opioid drug use in North Bay. North...
10:38 AM 12/31/2018 | HealthAnders Hagstrom | Justice Reporter America’s heroin and cocaine addicts are turning to test strips in the search to combat the increasing rate fatal, fentanyl-induced overdoses. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid potent enough to kill an adult male with just two...
The Bulletin Monday Dec 31, 2018 at 10:59 AM Coffee, crime, fire and fallout from the Derbygate scandal were the most-read stories at NorwichBulletin.com in 2018. View our top ten stories by clicking the links below. 1. New coffee shop perks up downtown Norwich http://www.norwichbulletin.com/article/20180513/NEWS/180519839 2. Police seize over 1,000 bags of heroin/fentanyl in...