Guelph police say officers seized over $28,000 worth of drugs from a north-end motel on Friday.Officers were dealing with an incident when the narcotics were noticed, leading to the arrest of a 22-year-old Toronto man and a 17-year-old Guelph girl. READ MORE:...
In a January 8 prime-time border security speech so unpersuasive that only 2 percent of Quinnipiac poll respondents said it changed their minds, President Donald Trump did the country a rare rhetorical favor. By thoroughly blurring the lines between immigration and drug policy—at one point...
Growing up in the farmlands around Dayton, south-west Ohio, a teenage Randy Carmack knew many “little old ladies” whose cupboards contained powerful painkillers. “One had a leg amputation and she didn’t like her fentanyl patches, so I bought her prescription from her granddaughter,” he said. Carmack...
More than two months after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) released a far-reaching plan to cut opioid overdose deaths in half by late 2020, key programs described in the plan have not been launched, according to city officials and service providers. The anti-opioid...
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium, Lucy Inglis, Pegasus Books, February 2019, 464 pages. Opioid drugs—including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioids—were responsible for nearly 50,000 overdose deaths in 2017. America is awash in them, whether stolen from a friend’s medicine cabinet, smuggled over the border,...
A powerful opioid, fentanyl, is showing up in cocaine, benzos, and molly across the Midwest and causing more accidental deaths than ever. It is extremely unlikely that a physician will ever advise you to use prescription medications or illicit drugs for recreational use, not as...
Early this year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers performed a routine inspection on a truck about to enter the United States through the Nogales crossing near Tucson, Arizona. When curious alterations in the floor of the vehicle’s cargo section were discovered, sniffer...
BURLINGTON, N.C. — Burlington Police charged a man after a baby was exposed to cocaine Sunday morning.Police say an 8-month-old was...
Share This Information With Others6 1 7SharesDETROIT, MI – Two men from California, who were arrested at a condo in Novi in 2017, were sentenced for their role in a drug conspiracy that resulted in, what was at the time, the third largest fentanyl seizure in the...
