CHESHIRE — A local man was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison Friday for supplying a mixture of heroin and fentanyl to a Southington woman who fatally overdosed.Thomas Halleran, 37, will also serve six years of supervised released following his sentence. He was...
Three police officers were hospitalized early Friday for fentanyl exposure received while arresting a couple on drug charges outside a Needham hotel. Needham police were conducting a routine check outside a hotel on B Street around 12:50 a.m. when they encountered a suspicious vehicle. During the...
According to a Thursday, March 21 report from the Centers for Disease Control, deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl increased by more than 1,000 percent from 2011 to 2016. As one might imagine given the problem of opioid addiction in Guilford County, fentanyl and other...
Between 2011 and 2016, drug overdose deaths in the United States involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl dramatically increased, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The number of annual drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl was stable at 1,663...
Drug overdose deaths linked to fentanyl saw a sharp rise from 2013 through 2016, doubling each year, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).While the number of fentanyl-related overdose deaths was roughly the same, slightly more than 1,600,...
Deaths from the drug fentanyl in the United States climbed more than 1,000 percent from 2011 to 2016, according to a report released Thursday. The number of fatalities involving the powerful synthetic opioid was relatively stable in 2011 and 2012, with roughly 1,600 deaths each of...
By 2016, fentanyl-related drug overdoses among blacks and Hispanics had started to catch up to non-Hispanic whites. The death rate for blacks rose 140.6 percent annually, on average, to 5.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2016, and Hispanics’ rate rose 118.3 percent, to 2.5. Whites remain...
Packages containing fentanyl and carfentanil are stored in the detention room at the JFK International Airport Mail Facilities Federal Inspection Site after being discovered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in this file photo. (Photo: Seth Harrison, The Journal News)An increasing number of African Americans...
3 Needham police officers hospitalized for fentanyl exposure during investigation Updated: 6:19 AM EDT Mar 22, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript SCENE RIGHT NOW. JOSH: IT ALL STARTED WITH A SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE IN A PARKING AREA AT THE RESIDENCE INN. HAZMAT TEAM IS OVER THERE, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT...