Dozens of people, including 53 medical professionals, have been charged for their alleged participation in the illegal prescription and distribution of opioids and other narcotics, Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services officials said Wednesday. Federal law enforcement and health officials held a...
Apr. 16–The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly weighing whether to label fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. An internal memo obtained by the military news outlet Task & Purpose said the powerful synthetic opioid, typically 50 to 100 times more...
CLOSE The data shows that substance use disorder is still widespread, but innovations in treatment, prescribing and awareness are helping. USA TODAYCINCINNATI – Federal prosecutors charged 60 physicians and pharmacists Wednesday with illegally handing out opioid prescriptions in what they...
Drug experts in California, British Columbia, and other areas are warning of a powerful new drug that can easily kill its users. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that’s 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl. It’s often disguised as heroin, which...
US officials warn carfentanil - a drug 100 times more potent than fentanyl and used to knock out elephants - is driving a new spike in overdosesCarfentanil is 100 times stronger than fentanyl,...
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]In 2017, the Manhattan district attorney’s office received a tip: Unusually large amounts of cash were being withdrawn from A.T.M.s throughout the city, including a series of transactions at a...
Wednesday Apr 17, 2019 at 7:34 AM Apr 17, 2019 at 7:34 AM WAREHAM – Responding to resident complaints of drug dealing in Onset, extra surveillance by the Wareham Police led to the arrest of a 25-year-old Wareham man on fentanyl, cocaine and gun charges.Over the last two weeks Wareham Police detectives have been conducting extra surveillance in...
WAREHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - A man is facing drug trafficking and weapons charges after a traffic stop in Wareham revealed he had an illegal loaded handgun and fentanyl in a car with a juvenile passenger, police said. Officers investigating illegal drug activity in Onset Center initiated...