WEST POINT – On Thursday, three people were arrested in West Point on charges of trafficking methamphetamine, according to information released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. James Elvin Cook, 38, of Franklin; Billy “BJ” Tyson, 38, of LaGrange; and Misty Perry, 39, of West Point...
Guelph police say most of the $80,000 worth of suspected fentanyl seized by officers in March was actually carfentanil. Police received the results of analysis by Health Canada and confirmed on Monday the drugs were 100 times more potent than fentanyl.READ MORE:...
Buy PhotoDeshawn Dowdell listens to the responses of prospective jurors during jury selection Tuesday afternoon in front of Judge Brent Robinson. (Photo: Jason J. Molyet/News Journal)MANSFIELD - Deshawn Dowdell is back for another jury trial.Dowdell, 24, is charged with murder, two counts of discharging a firearm...
Think of a dear friend of yours over 15 years ago, living in fear of getting a migraine, where the pain is so overwhelming that she couldn’t speak, didn’t make noise – even sound itself was too painful, but simply forced herself to bear the...
The opioid epidemic is ravaging American communities. Fentanyl and other opioids are killing 50,000 Americans every year, making this public health epidemic more lethal than car crashes and HIV at their peaks. The spike in overdose deaths is so severe that for the first time...
A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made by Insys Therapeutics Inc, is seen in an undated photograph provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama.U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama | ReutersInsys Therapeutics shares tanked Monday morning...
Analysis of a massive opioid seizure earlier this year has returned some alarming results. Guelph police had seized what they believed to be blue and purple fentanyl back in mid-March. Three search warrants had...
Two Scarborough, Ont., men face drug charges following a vehicle stop in the City of Kawartha Lakes early Saturday.City of Kawartha Lakes OPP say around 3:30 a.m. an officer patrolling on Highway 35 observed a vehicle being operated in a “suspicious...
Shares of Insys Therapeutics Inc. ...