QUINCY, MA — A Boston man was arrested after police said he was selling fentanyl and cocaine in Quincy. Miguel Vasquez, 24, was charged with trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl, distribution of fentanyl, and possession of cocaine with intent...
America's drug war is still here and still going strong. Today Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced her office had persuaded a grand jury to indict two fentanyl dealers for first-degree murder after they allegedly sold opiates to a user who died.Rundle's office said...
DEWITT, N.Y. -- Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer was in DeWitt this afternoon to announce that he is backing a bill that helps police departments purchase high-tech screening tools that detect lethal drugs, such as fentanyl.Schumer...
Prescription fentanyl, a highly potent and immediate-release drug meant for people with advanced cancer who have been on an opioid treatment, has been inappropriately prescribed to people who did not meet the criteria, says a new study by Johns Hopkins University researchers.The researchers, using more...
PureRadiancePhoto / Shutterstock.com Fentanyl is a powerful form of opioid given to patients who are suffering from severe pain. The medication is about 100 times more powerful than morphine. A new study shows that a large number of patients who should not have received something so...
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Drug makers and federal regulators dropped the ball in tracking the use of a potentially deadly fast-acting form of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, putting thousands of patients at risk of a fatal overdose, a new study claims. Transmucosal Immediate-Release Fentanyl, or TIRF, drugs are approved for...
My son was the first person to be murdered by fentanyl in this state. It was on Jan. 2, 2015, in Roxbury. He was my only child. I wasn’t even supposed to be able to get pregnant. Now part of my life is gone. Debbie Deagle’s son...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Salisbury man plead guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to possess and to distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, chemicals designed to have similar effects to fentanyl and just as deadly. According to 38-year-old Narada Walls’ plea agreement, he was part of a conspiracy, using...
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