It’s too early to say whether the 31-per-cent decrease in B.C.’s number of overdose deaths in January due to fentanyl in illicit drugs means that there may be an end in sight to the public health emergency.We can only hope that, finally, policymakers will be...
Two officers from the Phoenix police department were taken to a hospital Tuesday night due to possible exposure to a substance believed to be fentanyl.The Phoenix Police Department confirmed that the two officers came across a “white powdery substance” after they arrested a subject near 43rd Avenue...
(3TV/CBS 5) - Last month, a Scottsdale high schooler almost died.A frantic dad called...
WESTERLY — Two central Connecticut women are facing drug charges after police found them...
The Ottawa Police Service is investigating a spate of suspected drug overdoses, three of which were fatal.Over the course of 14 hours on Monday, police responded to five separate incidents involving six individuals requiring emergency medical treatment. Two of the suspected...
On March 16 the Vermont-based site VTDigger became the latest news platform to share a breathless story about a police officer overdosing via a brief incidental exposure to drugs. In this case Sgt. Brett Flansburg “collected a small quantity of heroin in a plastic baggie”...
(Reuters) - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and members of the wealthy Sackler family that own the company have reached a $270 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing Purdue of helping fuel the opioid abuse epidemic, people familiar with...
Ottawa police vehicle. Wayne Cuddington / Postmedia Two people died Monday in accidental overdoses involving what police suspect was fentanyl-laced cocaine.In all, police and other responders were called to three incidents over 14 hours involving five people who had apparently taken the tainted narcotics, acting Insp. François D’Aoust...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new CDC report on fentanyl shows fatal overdoses...