B.C.’s top health official has issued a strongly worded report that could set the province on a radical new path for how it responds to drug use and addiction.“This PHO [provincial health officer] Special Report examines the criminalization of people who use drugs in B.C.,...
Three area men, two of whom were extradited from Albania, are facing charges for...
President Trump is delivering a speech in Atlanta Wednesday at the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin summit after 1 p.m. Wednesday, as the U.S. has seen drug overdose deaths skyrocket in the last decade. Over 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2017, compared with...
Chicago police and the Drug Enforcement Administration were working together Wednesday to investigate a rash of at least 17...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to tout his fight against opioid abuse in remarks in Atlanta on Wednesday, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives. U.S. President Donald Trump attends...
Federal prosecutors charged drug distributor Rochester Drug Cooperative and its former CEO with drug trafficking charges Tuesday -- the first criminal charges for a pharmaceutical company and executives in the nation's ongoing opioid crisis. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay up...
Laurence Doud III, the former CEO of Rochester Drug Co-Operative (RDC), was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury. He is accused of distributing tens of millions of oxycodone, fentanyl, and other opioids that Rochester's own compliance department allegedly found had no legitimate need for...
CHICAGO (CBS) — CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov was drawn into a story about Chicago’s drug epidemic when she rushed to help a victim who overdosed right in front of her. It’s a horror people living in a two-block area of East Garfield Park see every day. I went...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn — Fifteen people have been indicted for a heroin and fentanyl conspiracy in Knoxville and other East Tennessee counties,...