Lyndsay Hartman spends Saturday afternoons sitting in front of death and trying not to think about it. She loads up her vehicle with needles, Narcan and fentanyl test strips. She drives over to the Kane County Coroner's office and parks outside the front door with a...
In a case that offers a window into the spread of addictive painkillers, a Sacramento County nurse was indicted by a federal grand jury last week after prosecutors said she sold more than 20,000 prescription opioid pills — including powerful and deadly fentanyl — on...
Credit: Office of the United States Attorney Above: Fentanyl pills pictured from a seizure in San Diego, Sept. 14,...
I’ll never forget the moment I found out my best friend died of a Fentanyl overdose.I awoke to a bright and vibrating phone at 8:30 a.m. It was an oddly early time for a young person to be receiving a phone call. My social circle...
A woman who was on the most wanted list of a New Hampshire county was apprehended in Maine.34-year-old Lace Meatty of Rochester, New Hampshire had a warrant out for her arrest from the Strafford County New Hampshire Sheriff's Department. Maine State Police arrested Meatty on the...
Nine people were indicted in Brown County Common Pleas Court on April 1. Mary Arvin, 30 and Christopher Darnell, 32 both of Georgetown are charged with multiple drug counts involving Hashish. Both are charged with two counts of Corrupting Another With Drugs, both first degree felonies;...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPNT), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing medicines for addictions and drug overdose, today announced that clinical pharmacokinetic (PK) data for OPNT003, nasal nalmefene containing Intravail® (dodecyl maltoside), were published online in the Journal...
2 accused of trafficking meth, fentanyl near Westbrook school, police say Updated: 7:10 AM EDT Apr 8, 2019 Agents with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and officers with Westbrook police arrested two people Thursday as part of an investigation.Police arrested Aaron Dansky, 34, and Kelly Palmer, 27.Police...
If five pedestrians died at a busy crosswalk in a 72-hour period, or five people died in a week from toxic lettuce, the clocks would stop, as the poets say, the authorities would cluster, everything menial set aside.But five sons or fathers or mothers who...
CINCINNATI — Although the charges Dr. Saad Sakkal faces are serious, he isn't the only local doctor accused of worsening the region's opioid crisis by writing irresponsible prescriptions to vulnerable patients. He isn't even the only one who worked at Lindenwald Medical Associates.The federal case...