From the time of his arrest, Dr. Paul T. Biddle was upfront about his addiction to painkillers. In time, the Orchard Park pain management physician also admitted writing prescriptions to two dead people and diverting the drugs to himself. Biddle, 55, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District...
Valerie DeCaro-Garcia spent some of her Mother’s Day trying to bring attention to a law rarely used in Cook County. When her brother, Anthony DeCaro, died of fentanyl toxicity in 2016, she thought his death would be investigated as a homicide. After all, the Illinois Drug Induced...
Washington County had the state's second highest increase in opioid-related deaths from 2017...
Steven Randy Pirko was still using heroin during his interview with RCMP in Nov. 2016. During Pirko’s second-degree murder trial in B.C Supreme Court in Kelowna Monday, a video of Pirko’s interview with Sgt. Eric Boucher revealed he...
As a result of the warrant being executed, police seized suspected cocaine, crystal meth, Fentanyl, Oxycodone, Hydromorphone, heroin and purple Fentanyl during a Temiskaming Shores bust May 10. The estimated street value of the drugs seized is approximately...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A West Virginia University researcher is seeking funding to study...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- An Indianapolis-based non-profit group hopes to raise enough money to open a new recovery home for women struggling with opioid use and addiction. Organizers with Overdose Lifeline say the residential...
Dunwoody Police have arrested and charged an alleged drug dealer with felony murder in the death of a 22-year-old man who police say overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl earlier this year at an apartment complex across from City Hall. It is the first known prosecution...
OTTAWA — In the small town of Arnprior, nestled into the Ottawa Valley, at least five suspected opioid overdoses in the span of week prompted police to issue a public warning.Access to extremely dangerous opioids is not limited to larger cities, said the Renfrew detachment...
WEST POINT – On Thursday, three people were arrested in West Point on charges of trafficking methamphetamine, according to information released by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. James Elvin Cook, 38, of Franklin; Billy “BJ” Tyson, 38, of LaGrange; and Misty Perry, 39, of West Point...