Officials in the Ohio Valley say recent increases in overdose deaths are largely due to fentanyl, and experts believe most of the powerful synthetic opioid comes from Chinese manufacturers. The Chinese government announced last month it would classify all chemical variations of...
Robert Gebelhoff, The Washington Post Published 3:53 pm EDT, Friday, May 24, 2019 ...
SOUTHINGTON, CT — A plea has been entered in a fatal Southington drug overdose case. John H. Durham, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, said Thursday that Edgardo Rivera, 27, of Hartford, who goes by the street name of "Eggy," waived his...
COLUMBUS (WBNS) – In recent months, Mount Carmel has paid out more than $2 million to the families of patients who died in the overdose scandal at its hospitals.Half of that $2 million figure – about $1.1 million - came from two recent settlements that...
Syringes with Naloxone are prepared before a safe injection site in Moss Park in downtown Toronto. Fred Lum/The Canadian Press.Fentanyl has become shorthand in North American public discourse to indicate a dangerous, unwanted, and lethal substance. This is due to the opioid’s link to overdose...
A Yukon territorial court judge has dismissed drug-related charges against a Toronto man arrested following a 2017 Whitehorse fentanyl bust after the Crown failed to authenticate a piece of evidence that was crucial to its case. Jibril Hosh...
CUMBERLAND, Md. (WJZ) — Seventeen people were arrested and charged in connection with a drug trafficking ring in Allegany County and surrounding areas. The ring allegedly distributed fentanyl, heroin and cocaine. The organization was busted by Maryland State Police’s Heroin Investigative Unit and Allegany County Narcotics Task...
An example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly, at a June 2017 news conference in Arlington. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Robert Gebelhoff Opinions contributor focusing...
Construction taking place on a border barrier in Otay Mesa, Calif., on April 3, 2019. (Getty Images/Mario Tama) (CNSNews.com) - A federal grand jury in Sacramento, Calif., has indicted two Mexican nationals who were pulled over in a traffic stop and then were discovered to be...