ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump touted progress in the fight against opioid abuse on Wednesday and promised to hold drugmakers accountable for their part in the crisis, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor...
Shiloh S. Jackson (Photo: Submitted)TOLEDO — A Marion man guilty of selling fentanyl will spend less than three years in prison, a federal judge ruled this week.Shiloh S. Jackson, 30, of Marion, was charged with distribution of fentanyl last year in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
B.C.’s top health official has issued a strongly worded report that could set the province on a radical new path for how it responds to drug use and addiction.“This PHO [provincial health officer] Special Report examines the criminalization of people who use drugs in B.C.,...
Three area men, two of whom were extradited from Albania, are facing charges for...
President Trump is delivering a speech in Atlanta Wednesday at the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin summit after 1 p.m. Wednesday, as the U.S. has seen drug overdose deaths skyrocket in the last decade. Over 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2017, compared with...
Chicago police and the Drug Enforcement Administration were working together Wednesday to investigate a rash of at least 17...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to tout his fight against opioid abuse in remarks in Atlanta on Wednesday, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives. U.S. President Donald Trump attends...
Federal prosecutors charged drug distributor Rochester Drug Cooperative and its former CEO with drug trafficking charges Tuesday -- the first criminal charges for a pharmaceutical company and executives in the nation's ongoing opioid crisis. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay up...
Laurence Doud III, the former CEO of Rochester Drug Co-Operative (RDC), was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury. He is accused of distributing tens of millions of oxycodone, fentanyl, and other opioids that Rochester's own compliance department allegedly found had no legitimate need for...