MUMBAI: In one of the biggest narcotic seizures of the year, the city police have busted a major international drug peddling racket with the arrest of four persons and confiscated 100 kg of fentanyl worth Rs 1,000 crore. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid used as a...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – More than 72,000 Americans died as a result of drug overdoses in 2018, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.Officials don’t want to see that number get any higher before the calendar flips to 2019.With upcoming New Year’s Eve...
Illicit drug overdoses were the cause behind 1,380 deaths so far this year in B.C., according to the Coroners Service. That’s roughly four deaths per day between January and November. The new data detailing the number of fatal overdoses,...
Over the course of 2018, DEA agents said they seized hundreds of kilograms of the deadly drug fentanyl from New York streets -- enough to make drug deals hundreds of millions of dollars, and also kill hundreds of millions of people.Fentanyl...
Buy PhotoKyle Pennington displays a Narcan nasal applicator during a training session sponsored by the Marion Area Counseling Center and the Crawford-Marion ADAMH on Monday. Pennington, a long term heroin addict who's been in recovery for four months, was one of about 20 people trained...
