WORCESTER — Five people, including a Fitchburg woman, suspected in a fentanyl distribution operation were arraigned on Friday in Central District Court after a joint investigation by the State Police Detectives assigned to the Worcester District Attorney's Office, the State Police Gang Unit,...
Thursday, May 16, 2019 GoLocalProv News Team View Larger + The opioid-related overdose death rate in Massachusetts fell an estimated four percent between 2016 and 2018, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. “While we remain encouraged that opioid-related overdose deaths have declined over the last two...
The “dark web”—a shadowy virtual department store for unsavory products from assassination contracts to AK-47s to blood diamonds—is also apparently the outlet for sizeable flows of fentanyl, one of the chemical culprits of the opioid crisis. Australian criminologists recently trawled the dark web’s anonymous markets for...
BUFFALO -- Eight people, including three Niagara Falls men, have been indicted by...
ROCKLAND — A Dexter man remains in the Knox County Jail, accused of selling the drug, fentanyl, that contributed to the death of a Thomaston man in January. Joshua Nickerson, 39, is charged with two counts of Class A aggravated trafficking in drugs, with a prior conviction. Nickerson...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The Piedmont Triad is seeing an unprecedented influx of methamphetamine for the area, with DEA agents comparing it to the amounts they were seeing while on previous assignments along...
What to KnowAddicts are seeking out fentanyl, a drug 50 times more powerful than heroin. The number of deaths attributed to it have risen in LA County.Doctors prescribe the drug for pain such as late stage cancer and surgery. It has been making its way...
Interior Health is joining a new research project to provide people who use...
Monthly deaths from illicit-drug use in the first quarter of the year are down 32 per cent from the same period last year, the B.C. Coroners Service says in the latest update on the overdose crisis in B.C., the hardest-hit province. The monthly average for...