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14 Mar Border Patrol seize $153K of hard drugs at Nogales

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TUCSON, Ariz. — Officers of Federal Operations found $153K worth of methamphetamine and fentanyl at the Port of Nogales on on Tuesday.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers ...

14 Mar Purdue Pharma CEO says as opioid lawsuits approach the company is weighing bankruptcy as an option

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Purdue Pharma’s chief executive said the company is considering bankruptcy as it faces a cascade of lawsuits alleging that the drugmaker played a key role in driving the nation’s opioid crisis, including aggressively and deceptively marketing the powerful painkiller OxyContin.Purdue’s president and chief executive, Craig...

13 Mar New Chart Shows Unbelievable Increases in Fentanyl Deaths Over the Last Five Years

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The Opioid Crisis is no...

13 Mar The Washington Post Blames Obama for Fentanyl Deaths

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House Judiciary CommitteeA story in today's Washington Post makes the case that the Obama administration failed to take the proliferation of fentanyl as a heroin booster and substitute seriously enough, resulting in drug-related deaths that otherwise would not have occurred. The story is formatted in...

13 Mar Drug dealer gets life for killing Cheektowaga woman

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BUFFALO – Dontrell Wise will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge sentenced the convicted drug dealer to life in prison for selling a fatal dose of drugs that killed a Cheektowaga woman in 2017.The 32-year-old from Buffalo sold approximately 10...

13 Mar Harford Health Department applies for 2,000 kits to test for fentanyl in heroin, opioids

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The Harford County Health Department has applied to the state for 2,000 kits that will test for fentanyl in...

13 Mar Tougher punishments in fentanyl crimes hard sell in Legislature | The Daily Courier

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Of the six people arrested and charged with selling fentanyl in Yavapai County since February 2018, none have been sentenced to serve time in prison. There are various reasons...

13 Mar High school student given Narcan after taking a hit of marijuana vape, possibly laced with fentanyl

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The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 15-year-old Sickles High School student for felony possession of a controlled substance after the teen allegedly let two classmates inhale a THC liquid from a vape device. The two girls, both 14, suffered severe side effects after inhaling...

Stripper-turned-pharma exec gave a doctor a lap dance at a Chicago nightclub to get him to prescribe drugs, officials say

13 Mar 35 charged in heroin phone ‘hotline’ bust

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Nearly three dozen people were arrested by local and federal authorities as part of an investigation into the use...

12 Mar Test Strips Distributed In Watertown; May Reduce Drug Deaths

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They're about the size of a band aid, and they can help save the lives of drug addicts.Tiny "test strips" are being used by addicts to test the heroin or methamphetamine they have, to see if it's laced with fentanyl.Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid...