47m medicine doses were diverted in the US last year
A study of drug diversion in the US reveals that 47.2m doses of medicine worth $454m were channeled from the lawful to the unlawful supply chain last year.The annual...
03 June, 2019
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72 charged by Berkeley County grand jury | West Virginia
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The following were charged last week by a grand jury...
03 June, 2019
Life Expectancy Stalls In Canada Amid Opioid Crisis
Opioid-related overdoses and deaths have been a significant public health crisis in Canada for some time, with the province of British Columbia (B.C.) having declared a public health emergency in 2016. In B.C. life expectancy fell in 2017, for the second year in a row....
03 June, 2019
A trip to no man’s land
During the end of last year, the Advertiser reported that according to the latest crime stats the biggest issue in Boksburg is drug-related crime, which in total stood at 1 685 cases for the four police stations. And this is certainly not a problem unique to...
03 June, 2019
Parkrose HS coach Keanon Lowe returned to Oregon to ‘change lives’ after best friend’s overdose death
Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst with the San Francisco 49ers when he got word his best friend had died.“That shattered my whole life. That changed everything,’’ said Lowe. “I said, ‘I’m going back.’’’The drug overdose death of his high school buddy...
03 June, 2019
Dangerous ‘purple heroin’ has made its way to Montreal, police document says
Montreal police are worried that a dangerous drug known as “purple heroin” has made its way into the city.An internal note obtained by The Canadian Press says the police service’s analysis and intelligence department has been informed of the drug’s presence...
02 June, 2019
Police said a trooper collapsed from an incidental overdose. Now they’re saying nothing.
Vermont State Police Colonel Matthew Birmingham. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerBefore Vermont’s public safety commissioner publicly concluded that one of his troopers had collapsed due to an overdose from accidental exposure to fentanyl, he asked whether it might be worth waiting.Thomas Anderson, the commissioner, sent an...
02 June, 2019
Bad Blood Season 2 Gets An Official Release Date And Poster From Netflix!
This is one of the better series in the crime drama genre. The direction, writing, cinematography, settings, and acting are superlative. Coates and LaPaglia in particular offer emotive portrayals. The plot of the series is based on the true-life Canadian Rizzuto gangster family. After being incarcerated...
02 June, 2019
JACK SIMPSON: The dangers of Fentanyl | Features
We are told that just one gram can kill. This makes Fentanyl a...
02 June, 2019