Quote Addiction is not our future. We will liberate our country from this crisis. President Donald J. Trump DRIVING FORCES BEHIND THE CRISIS: A new report by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) looks at some of the underlying forces that have driven this crisis. Today, CEA...
Fifteen people were indicted by a Brown County Grand Jury on a variety of offenses. Jeremy Reynolds, 25 of Ludlow, KY, is charged with Engaging in a Pattern of Corrupt Activity, a first degree felony; Trafficking in Cocaine, a first degree felony; Trafficking in Hashish, a...
SIMCOE — A 39-year-old Simcoe man’s sentence of 10 years in penitentiary is believed to be the harshest punishment every imposed in Norfolk County related to drug offences.“Ten years is a very significant sentence,” federal Crown attorney Jamie Pereira said Monday in Simcoe’s Ontario Court...
People with addictions can receive free walk-in help — no appointments needed — today through Friday at seven Columbus locations.The "Walk in for Recovery" events are being offered by the Columbus and Franklin County Addiction Plan to connect people with addictions, especially opioid addictions, to treatment and...
Tristan Keith Gordon Jenkins, 27, and Micah Jair McClure, 40, appeared in the B.C. Provincial Court in Victoria on April 29, for a voir dire hearing. Jenkins, dressed in a red jumpsuit with cuffs around his ankles, joked...
The majority of the reported cases of missing fentanyl occurred in Ontario, followed by Alberta and Quebec. Federal records obtained by the Star revealed 138 incidents of lost fentanyl from Canadian hospitals at a rate of about twice a week over a 15-month period ending...
LIMA — A Lima man was taken into custody last week after a search of his residence turned up suspected heroin, fentanyl, crack cocaine, marijuana and multiple firearms.The West Central Ohio Crime Task Force, with assistance from the Allen County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, served...
A Concord man pleaded guilty Monday to supplying fentanyl to Ryan Smith who fatally overdosed in the early-morning hours of July 26, 2017, in a wooded area off North Main Street.Although Spencer Grayson, 22, took responsibility for giving fentanyl to Smith just moments before the overdose,...
Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press Monday Apr 29, 2019 at 2:20 PM Apr 29, 2019 at 2:20 PM A federal jury will be able to hear from a doctor who spent decades advocating for broader use of powerful prescription painkillers before turning against the opioid industry.A special court master had ruled earlier this month that the testimony of Dr....