SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Mateo County on Thursday joined more than 1,300 cities, counties and groups in suing opioid prescription drug makers for allegedly fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic. The county’s lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco, but is expected to be...
In this week’s FOIA round-up, public records requests reveal pollution from U.S. mining sites is contaminating American water supplies without being treated, researchers use FOIA documents to reveal mishandling of fentanyl distribution by the Federal Drug Administration, and new records raise ethical concerns over travel...
Talk about losing your appetite.One Ohio restaurant is in hot water for advertising a bag of fentanyl as a “new brunch special” in jest on social media — though many both within and beyond the local community don’t find the supposed joke to be so funny.Last...
More than 500 grams of fentanyl were seized during the arrest of a Massachusetts man.Thirty-six-year-old Rosario Lara of Lawrence has been charged with trafficking a class A narcotic over 200 grams.Federal, state and local investigators developed information that Lara was trafficking fentanyl, according to state police.On...
A former Ohio doctor is under investigation for allegedly prescribing “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of a highly potent drug, fentanyl, to dozens of patients who later died. Dr. William Husel was fired in December, and...
A former Ohio doctor is under investigation for allegedly prescribing "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of a highly potent drug, fentanyl, to dozens of patients who later died. Dr. William Husel was fired in December, and Mount Carmel Hospital reported at least 27 of...
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. (WESH) - A new video from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office paints a picture of the overdose epidemic in Florida.The video shows three people suffering from symptoms of drug overdose at the...
Could a legal heroin supply help combat the province’s opioid crisis?It’s an idea being floated in a new report released Thursday by the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.The centre suggests that providing legal heroin to users — through the establishment...
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A traffic stop on Interstate 91 on Tuesday in Hartland resulted in three arrests and what a prosecutor calls the largest bust involving fentanyl that he’s seen in Windsor County.“For fentanyl, the threshold for a trafficking charge is 70 milligrams,” Windsor...
Schuylkill County Law Enforcement seized thousands of dollars worth of drugs during a bust in Gordon on Thursday. According to the Schuylkill County District Attorney's Office, on February 21, 2019, members of the Pennsylvania State Police Troop L – Vice/ Narcotics Unit, Schuylkill County District Attorney’s...