A Manitoba mother who lost her son to a fentanyl overdose in 2014 has penned an open letter to Premier Brian Pallister, asking his government to stop politicking and start tackling the province’s meth crisis.Arlene Last-Kolb’s 24-year-old son Jessie died on July 18, 2014. Since...
Allan Doxtator knew full well he was going to jail.On Feb. 8, 2018, he was before Ontario Court Justice George Orsini to be sentenced for assault. The judge, following a joint submission from Crown and defence, sent Doxtator to jail.He was taken to Elgin-Middlesex Detention...
Physician Paul Madison is suspected of taking more than $70,000 in bribes from a drug company to churn out...
Many of you have read news headlines regarding fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that has become a growing public health crisis in cities across the United States. In California, two recent reports of fentanyl overdoses in Fresno and Chico, collectively led to two deaths and 14...
CHICO, Calif. - The Chico Police Department has confirmed that the death in a mass-overdose in Chico on Jan. 12 was fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine poisoning. Aris Turner, 34, of Chico, died due to the mass overdose incident and 14 others were sent to the hospital. Chico Police...
CHICO — Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien on Wednesday released the cause of the death of the man who died in the apparent mass overdose earlier this month at a Chico home. The man, 34-year-old Aris Turner of Chico, died Jan. 12 from acute fentanyl, methamphetamine and...
A longtime pharmaceutical sales rep for Insys Therapeutics testified Wednesday that he broke the law for the company that made him a rich man with its alleged scheme to bribe medical practitioners to hook patients on Subsys, its potentially fatal fentanyl pain reliever. “Did you agree...
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized enough fentanyl to kill over 50 million people from a truck that was trying to cross the southern border into the United States, according to an investigation by “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” WATCH: “Well, the U.S. border patrol...
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A possible fentanyl lab has been dismantled in Calgary, according to the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams.On Jan. 18, ALERT’s Calgary organized crime team dismantled the lab and reportedly found a pill press, dies, various chemical powders and fentanyl in both...