The case highlights, they say, the conundrum faced by drug users in crisis situations: Should they call 911 or not? SOUTH KINGSTOWN — On April 17, the South Kingstown police announced via social media the arrest of a 28-year-old Narragansett woman on a charge that she...
A Calgary mother is sharing her story of loss in hopes of bringing more awareness to the ongoing opioid crisis in Alberta.Samantha Card, 25, died last October after overdosing on fentanyl.“She just had a spice about her, she was creative and...
Nearly 20 Ohio counties will receive funding through a $350 million study aimed at reducing opioid-related deaths by forty percent over three years.The study, through the National Institutes of Health, is called Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEALing). Ohio, Kentucky, New York and Massachusetts, which...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT PLYMOUTH — A New Bedford man pleaded guilty to drug dealing charges and was sentenced to four years in state prison, the Plymouth County DA's office said.Jakeem Finley, 23, entered the plea late Thursday afternoon in Superior Court to one...
The Allen County Action Commission for the Opiate Epidemic got the latest on...
NEW YORK — About two-thirds of Americans believe drug companies are to blame for the opioid crisis, although nearly as many hold drug users themselves responsible, a new poll finds. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed many people also fault doctors who...
Beacon Journal/Ohio.com Friday Apr 26, 2019 at 11:21 AM Apr 26, 2019 at 11:21 AM Akron will be featured in a '60 Minutes' report Sunday that focuses on illegal synthetic opioids coming from China.The television program traveled to China and tracked down a man accused of illegally shipping the drugs to the United States. Some of those drugs wound...
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police said two men have been arrested in connection with a rash of heroin overdoses in East Garfield Park earlier this week. At least 18 people in a two-block section of the neighborhood overdosed on heroin Tuesday. Police said a heroin handout, a...
Cassandra Stephenson, Jackson Sun Published 2:31 p.m. CT April 26, 2019 A HAZMAT team responded to the Decatur County Sheriff's Department Friday after a trooper and inmate...
