Even as advocates in U.S. cities have struggled to open supervised-injection sites to help stop fatal overdoses, a clandestine site has been operating somewhere in the country since 2014. PHILADELPHIA — Even as advocates in U.S. cities have struggled to open supervised-injection sites to help stop fatal...
Following is a summary of current health news briefs.During a.m. appointments, doctors more likely to advise cancer screeningPatients who see their doctors in the morning are a lot more likely to be referred for screenings for breast and colon cancer than patients with end-of-the-day appointments,...
Admitting that she stole narcotic painkillers from the hospital where she once worked...
ROCKLAND — A Dexter man with a long criminal record is being held in jail after being arrested Wednesday, accused of selling the deadly drug fentanyl that killed a Thomaston man earlier this year. Joshua R. Nickerson, 39, is charged with Class A aggravated trafficking in...
“Operation Ghost.”That was the name of the year-long investigation that resulted in the arrest of 21 people last week in what the Bristol County D.A’s office said was a fentanyl trafficking ring.The investigation, which was conducted by way of a wiretap, and was named “Ghost”...
A Rockaway Township woman was sentenced this week to five years in state...
A Hillsboro woman who was indicted this week by a Highland County grand jury has been sentenced to prison in Clinton County for conveying methamphetamine onto a jail grounds. Antasia Deaton, 30, received a 24-month prison term in Clinton County Common Pleas Court...
MANSFIELD -- A METRICH search warrant in Mansfield led to an arrest Friday after...
Friday May 10, 2019 at 11:57 PM May 10, 2019 at 11:57 PM WAREHAM – Wareham and Fairhaven police and the U.S. DEA raided an East Wareham home Friday and netted an arrest and illegal drugs, including more than 530 grams of suspected cocaine and crack cocaine, as well as more than 19 grams of fentanyl, Suboxone.After a...