CLOSE Booze isn't just featured in commercials, it's pretty much gotten to the point where it's featured in your favorite TV show or movie. Here's how alcohol advertising affects minors. USA TODAYThe number of deaths from alcohol, drugs and...
SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Drug users are being urged to not use alone and keep naloxone nearby after first responders dealt with at least a dozen overdoses in Surrey on Sunday. Dr. Shovita Padhi with...
After five days of witness testimony in New Westminster Supreme Court, the Crown has wrapped its case in a South Delta fentanyl trial. On Monday afternoon Crown prosecutor Adrienne Switzer rested the Crown’s case against Daniel Chun Chesshire, who is facing one count...
Two men are in federal custody after they were allegedly caught with more than 40 pounds of an opioid up to 50 times more powerful than heroin.Luis Aponte, 48, and Denny Diaz, 29, were charged with one count of conspiracy to possess fentanyl with...
(WBNG) — One local organization is hoping to fight overdose deaths in a new way. “For the parents out there who’ve lost a loved one, that’s a permanent condition, if somebody dies, they’re gone forever,” said Truth Pharm’s Executive Director Alexis Pleus. She says in the last...
This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) Copyright by WOODTV - All rights reserved This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the...
The lawsuit against Purdue Pharma filed by the attorney general in Massachusetts amounts to "oversimplified scapegoating" unsupported by the law, the company said in a new court filing. In a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the Sackler family - owners of Purdue Pharma, the...
Five Wilmington, Del., firefighters and...