P.E.I. hospitals are now testing for fentanyl when patients come into an emergency department with an overdose.Doing that testing on-site means faster results and enables public health officials to see quickly if there's a spike in overdoses from fentanyl and alert the public of the risk.Fentanyl is...
Mexican cartels ship fentanyl-laced drugs to the United States from 13 states, according to the federal government. In a confidential report seen by the newspaper El Universal, the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) said that drug trafficking organizations send heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine laced with the synthetic...
CINCINNATI — Hamilton County saw a spike on overdoses over the weekend, prompting the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition to issue an alert. Following a documented spike in overdose deaths in Columbus, Hamilton County agencies began looking into numbers within Cincinnati, revealing the spike was not...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - There's currently a backlog in processing cases when it comes to tackling the opioid epidemic. The two U.S. Senators from Ohio are pushing for funding to help law enforcement in the Valley get...
Cassandra Stephenson, Jackson Sun Published 8:12 p.m. CT May 20, 2019 | Updated 8:31 p.m. CT May 20, 2019CLOSE Jeffrey Young, a Jackson nurse practitioner, was indicted on drug crimes in...
ALTON — A local man who allegedly helped a friend to buy fentanyl...
LEBANON — Authorities treated the January death of an East Corinth woman at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as a possible homicide after hospital employees raised concerns that family members had tampered with the woman’s pain medication, according to Lebanon Police Department reports.One nurse went as far...
Police said Jose R. Reyes sold heroin and fentanyl to a Spring Township man. ...
Last week, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey announced the arrest of a Bergen County doctor accused of distributing opioids without a legitimate medical reason, and falsifying medical records to cover it up.Authorities say Robert Delagente, 45, of Oakland, called himself the "El Chapo of Opioids"...
DSC_2Mega_PixFor the last 60 years the city of Baltimore has struggled with heroin addiction and this has led to increased crime and high levels of desperation. This is the same story within the city’s neighborhoods. However, things have changed in the city as users now...