Viewpoint: Give law enforcement more funds to fight drugs
Opioid deaths in New York have become so commonplace that it's virtually impossible to remember one tragedy...
19 April, 2019
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Opioid crisis in Massachusetts: Where we’ve been and where we’re going – News – Milford Daily News
OxyContin began being prescribed widely for chronic pain, often to laborers who were hurt on the job, or to athletes for their injuries. Sometimes these athletes were high schoolers. Many became addicted to the painkiller and moved on to heroin and later, fentanyl. The death totals...
19 April, 2019
Haeberle Avenue dealer charged after Wednesday raid | Local News
Falls Police Narcotics Intelligence Division detectives said it wasn't hard to find where...
19 April, 2019
R.I. man sentenced in Connecticut for trafficking in fentanyl – News – providencejournal.com
Journal Staff Friday Apr 19, 2019 at 9:04 AM Apr 19, 2019 at 9:05 AM He was stopped with another Providence man on Route 95 in 2017. PROVIDENCE -- A Providence man was sentenced in federal court to 2½ years in prison for trafficking fentanyl, the U.S. Attorney in Connecticut announced in a press release Friday.Alcides Alba-Gomez, 29, will serve three...
19 April, 2019
Local Officials on Alert for New Deadly Drug
Local law enforcement and drug prevention and treatment agency officials are on alert with word of an increase in the appearance of a synthetic narcotic even more potent than deadly fentanyl. The Federal Drug Administration says “carfentanil”, which is surfacing around the country, is 100-times more...
19 April, 2019
HHS launches program to cut opioid overdoses by 40 percent in three years
A makeshift memorial in Miami for Kyle Dodds, who died of an overdose of heroin and fentanyl in 2016. A $353 million government effort aims to cut opioid deaths by 40 percent in three years. (Scott McIntyre/For The Washington Post) ...
19 April, 2019
College Offers Potentially Life-Saving Drug to Counter Overdose Effects
According to the Centers for Disease Control, two-thirds of the nation's drug deaths involved opioids. The percentage is much lower in Texas, but rising. The crisis is serious enough that University of North Texas recently began offering a medication that could save lives.It...
19 April, 2019
SFPD anticipates 15,000 people for 420, warns about fentanyl-laced cannabis
By Alyssa Pereira, SFGATE Updated 4:45 pm PDT, Thursday, April 18, 2019 ...
19 April, 2019
Gibson police combat rising drug problem, urge users to seek help
GIBSON, Tenn. — It’s not just any drug hitting the town of Gibson. “The heroin problem is really becoming an issue, especially laced with fentanyl. It’s...
19 April, 2019