Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine. File Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVermont’s top health official is pushing back on efforts to allow possession of a popular opioid treatment drug without a prescription, a proposal he said would get his “slam dunk” support in any other state.Health Commissioner...
BOSTON, April 4 (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday will present their closing arguments in the trial of the wealthy founder of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics Inc and four colleagues accused of contributing to the U.S. opioid epidemic by bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl...
HARRISBURG — Seven people have been indicted for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, and distribution of heroin and fentanyl resulting in death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of PA...
A view of trash that drug users left under a Philadelphia bridge in 2017. City officials are trying to come up with innovative solutions for the opioid crisis. One possibility — a safe injection site — has drawn federal scrutiny. (Salwan Georges/The Washington...
Fentanyl is killing black people in Connecticut at the same rate as whites for the first time since state officials began tracking the epidemic around 2012, a CT Mirror analysis has found.There is no clear consensus among experts in Connecticut as to what is driving...
Packets of fentanyl mostly in powder form and methamphetamine, which US Customs and Border Protection say they seized from a truck crossing...
This week’s spike in opioid overdoses across Southwestern Ontario is what the region’s top medical officer is calling “the worst it’s ever been” since fentanyl arrived on the drug scene a year ago.Chris Mackie, the chief medical officer of health at the Middlesex-London health unit...
This week’s spike in opioid overdoses across Southwestern Ontario is what the region’s top medical officer is calling “the worst it’s ever been” since fentanyl arrived on the drug scene a year ago.Chris Mackie, the chief medical officer of health at the Middlesex-London health unit...
Saskatoon provincial court Greg Pender / Saskatoon StarPhoenix Lawyers of two men who are on trial, accused of trafficking fentanyl-laced cocaine tied to fatal overdoses in Saskatoon, can question a police officer about a search warrant that led to their clients’ arrest. Judge Doug Agnew determined the test...
A Buffalo man allegedly caught with about 600 grams of heroin mixed with fentanyl was arraigned Wednesday in State Supreme Court on drug charges, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office. Prosecutors said 39-year-old Willie Loyd was charged with one count of first-degree criminal possession...