A beloved 11-year-old Haverhill girl who slipped into a coma and died last month after a sleepover at her great-uncle’s single-room apartment tested positive for fentanyl in her system, officials at Lawrence General Hospital told investigators, a police report released today states. Miguel Rivera, 58, who...
Doctors who receive direct payments from opioid manufacturers tend to prescribe more opioids than doctors who receive no such payments, new research shows. The report, published in the journal Addiction, found that the association between payments and prescribing is strongest for hydrocodone and oxycodone, the most...
Levy Co., Fla. (WCJB)-- A simple traffic stop quickly turned into an investigation for Levy County deputies after a deputy saw a vehicle failed to make a complete stop at a stop sign. According to deputies, on the night of January 18th, Rebecca Carter, 24, failed...
COLUMBUS – Attorneys representing several families of patients who are believed to have died after receiving excessive doses of fentanyl have identified the youngest patient to date – a 37-year-old man.Attorney Craig Tuttle says 37-year old James Nickolas Timmons was brought into Mount Carmel West...
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Preliminary numbers from the Department of Health and Social Services show Alaska gained ground in the fight against opioids between 2017 and 2018. The welcomed numbers show what state officials are calling significant decreases in deaths from fentanyl and opioid-related overdoses -- but...
YOUNGSTOWN Shortly before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw a need to move the focus of the civil-rights movement in what many...
PureRadiancePhoto / Shutterstock.com As Purdue Pharmaceutical’s OxyContin has become the poster child for opioid addiction, so too has another drug become synonymous with efforts to save people who have overdosed on those drugs – Narcan, developed by California-based Opiant Pharmaceuticals. Narcan is widely provided to first responders...
As the end drew near, Carey Dean Moore’s face turned red, and then purple. He breathed heavily, according to the witnesses who were there to see it, and coughed. Roughly 20 minutes later, he died.In his final weeks, the two-time killer had given up efforts...
The crisis of opioid addiction has captured the attention of the public, lawmakers and the medical community. But while progress is being made against over-prescribing opioid painkillers, street drugs laced with fentanyl are becoming more common and more deadly.Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid much more...