Fentanyl
5 Fall River residents test positive for fentanyl after believing they used marijuana – News – The Herald News, Fall River, MA
FALL RIVER — Over the past three months, five city residents who reported they did not consume opioids were revived with Naloxone and tested positive for fentanyl after using what they believed was marijuana, according to a city official.The substance those residents consumed was “laced” with...
22 May, 2019
Police: New Bedford man arrested after drugs found near sleeping children – News – southcoasttoday.com
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — Law enforcement officials found fentanyl within two feet of a mattress where children were sleeping in a McGurk Street apartment Tuesday and arrested a city man on drug and ammunition charges, state police said.Due to the proximity...
22 May, 2019
President Trump vowed to fight opioids. But the fentanyl crisis keeps getting worse.
Jeff Stein on what an IRS draft memo means for the fight over President Trump’s taxes. Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham on the Trump administration’s response to the fentanyl crisis. And Carol Leonnig on the meticulous lawyer subpoenaed by Congress. Confidential draft memo...
22 May, 2019
Schuykill County man gets 2 to 4 years for role in Berks woman’s fatal fentanyl overdose
Judge Eleni Dimitriou Geishauser went below the sentencing guidelines when punishing Drew Reed, saying there are inherent inequities in the statute. ...
22 May, 2019
New Bedford Man Had Fentanyl Next To His Sleeping Children: MSP
NEW BEDFORD, MA — A New Bedford man was arrested Tuesday after State Police raided his apartment and said they found a bag of fentanyl next to his sleeping children, along with another 77 grams of fentanyl in the other room. Oscar Ramos-Torres, 30, was...
22 May, 2019
Wareham Police arrest a man for selling fentanyl after neighborhood complaints – News – Wicked Local
WAREHAM – Wareham Police arrested a 23-year-old man Tuesday for selling fentanyl after responding to resident complaints from the Indian Mound Beach area.“Wareham Police Dept. detectives continue to keep up their aggressive enforcement of drug laws in the town of Wareham,” police stated in a...
22 May, 2019
Waterloo Regional Police warn about carfentanil that looks like cannabis
WATERLOO REGION — Waterloo Regional Police have issued a warning about a product that looks like cannabis but isn't. The product contains the deadly drug carfentanil, said Staff Sgt. Brenna Bonn, head of drugs for Waterloo Regional Police. ...
22 May, 2019
Trump administration struggles to confront the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio - In a dungeon-like jail in the center of this depressed farming town, 18 women in orange-and-white-striped prison uniforms are crammed into a two-story cellblock. Many of them are withdrawing from fentanyl. The jail, built in 1884 to hold 24, now houses...
22 May, 2019
