SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Thirteen defendants were indicted on narcotics trafficking charges Wednesday in a federal crackdown of a major methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin distribution network in Contra Costa County, federal authorities said. U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in...
Opioid-maker Insys Therapeutics is warning it may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The announcement may mark an end to the drugmaker. Shares of Insys Therapeutics plummeted Monday after the announcement, down almost three-quarters of its market value in less...
Quantities of fentanyl and carfentanil seized by Perth County OPP in February. Courtesy of Ontario Provincial Police / Windsor Star You may know that fentanyl is dangerous, but Essex County OPP are emphasizing that fact with details about recent local overdose incidents involving the drug.According to police,...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Thirteen defendants were indicted on narcotics trafficking charges Wednesday in a federal crackdown of a major methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin distribution network in Contra Costa County, federal authorities said. U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in...
Staff report Wednesday May 15, 2019 at 2:20 PM A Davidson County man was charged with second degree murder Tuesday after Lexington police say he sold heroin laced with fentanyl to a man who later overdosed and died.Daniel Allen English, 27, of 1520 Hoover Road, was charged with second degree murder by distributing...
Six people died of illicit drug overdoses in the first three months of 2019 in Chilliwack, a number that used to mark an entire year of deaths prior to the current opioid crisis in B.C. And while it...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Wednesday that it will stop accepting gifts from members of the Sackler family who own the company making the OxyContin prescription painkillers implicated in the US opioids crisis. The museum on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, one...
Purple fentanyl. Photo courtesy of OPP. ...
Massachusetts is reporting a 4% decline in opioid-related overdose deaths from 2016 to 2018, according to new state data released Wednesday. There were 2,100 fatalities in 2016, and an estimated 2,050 in 2017 and 2,033 last year.But the preliminary numbers for the first quarter of...
Essex County OPP are warning the public about the dangers of fentanyl after three overdoses and three arrests in separate cases this year. Officers are reminding everyone about the dangers of ingesting fentanyl...