OxyContin began being prescribed widely for chronic pain, often to laborers who were hurt on the job, or to athletes for their injuries. Sometimes these athletes were high schoolers. Many became addicted to the painkiller and moved on to heroin and later, fentanyl. The death totals...
Falls Police Narcotics Intelligence Division detectives said it wasn't hard to find where...
Journal Staff Friday Apr 19, 2019 at 9:04 AM Apr 19, 2019 at 9:05 AM He was stopped with another Providence man on Route 95 in 2017. PROVIDENCE -- A Providence man was sentenced in federal court to 2½ years in prison for trafficking fentanyl, the U.S. Attorney in Connecticut announced in a press release Friday.Alcides Alba-Gomez, 29, will serve three...
Local law enforcement and drug prevention and treatment agency officials are on alert with word of an increase in the appearance of a synthetic narcotic even more potent than deadly fentanyl. The Federal Drug Administration says “carfentanil”, which is surfacing around the country, is 100-times more...
A makeshift memorial in Miami for Kyle Dodds, who died of an overdose of heroin and fentanyl in 2016. A $353 million government effort aims to cut opioid deaths by 40 percent in three years. (Scott McIntyre/For The Washington Post) ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control, two-thirds of the nation's drug deaths involved opioids. The percentage is much lower in Texas, but rising. The crisis is serious enough that University of North Texas recently began offering a medication that could save lives.It...
By Alyssa Pereira, SFGATE Updated 4:45 pm PDT, Thursday, April 18, 2019 ...
GIBSON, Tenn. — It’s not just any drug hitting the town of Gibson. “The heroin problem is really becoming an issue, especially laced with fentanyl. It’s...
The Department of Homeland Security is considering a proposal to label fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, according to a new report. Task & Purpose,...
(WBNG) — A recent rise in overdose deaths in several states throughout the nation related to the synthetic opioid carfentanil has led Southern Tier health officials to be on alert for the drug. According to the Federal Drug Administration, carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl which...