The company resolved its case with the US Justice Department for $225m (€198m), which saw a subsidiary of the company plead guilty to five counts of mail fraud.The actual charges against the company were that it had used ‘speaker programs’ as a “vehicle to pay...
In the bankruptcy court filing, Insys Chief Executive Andrew Long said sales of Subsys, a fentanyl spray, have declined substantially. That drop, coupled with more than 1,000 lawsuits by municipal governments seeking to hold the company responsible for the opioid epidemic, was more than the...
A spike in opioid overdoses and deaths in Peterborough, Ont., is prompting a call for the Ford government to do more to tackle the crisis. Over the first weekend in June, police responded to 19 drug overdoses, which resulted in two deaths over a 72-hour period. A veteran of...
In early 2018, the F.B.I. created the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team, or J-Code, with more than a dozen special agents and staff. Europol has its own dedicated dark web team. And authorities everywhere have broadened their focus beyond just the administrators overseeing the...
The numbers are stark - year to date there have been 45 fentanyl-related drug overdose deaths in Hartford.Police say that’s almost double the number from a year ago. And now fentanyl has been found in cocaine and crack cocaine, in addition to heroin.This has local,...
The family of the Woodstock teen who’s become the local face of the deadly opioid epidemic is pushing for harsher penalties for dealers.The Mackay family launched an online petition late last week urging government leaders to pass legislation that would sharply increase prison sentences for...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — In recent years, more Minnesotans have died from opioid overdoses than from car crashes. The numbers are staggering and the stories all too familiar to the agency on the epidemic’s front lines. The Drug Enforcement Administration is tasked with trying to control the...
Fentanyl, cash found YOUNGSTOWN Police late Friday found a large amount of fentanyl and $3,644 cash after stopping a driver at South Osborn and California...