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PROVIDENCE -- A Providence man who conspired with the leader of a multi-state drug trafficking ring that included a Norton man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison, the Rhode Island U.S. Attorney's office announced Monday.Audi E. Diaz, also known as Boku, 29,...
For anyone who does not already realize that fentanyl ranks among the deadliest and most devious drugs out there, the Department of Homeland Security would like to underscore the point. Task & Purpose snagged an internal memo about the department looking toward deeming the synthetic opioid...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--If heroin is coffee, fentanyl is espresso. Just as a miniscule cup of espresso can hype you up more than a whole mug of coffee, a single exposure to fentanyl can get a user vastly higher than injecting the same volume of heroin. In...
His main priority is really to stop the flow of migrants and asylum seekers, and it was the rise in their numbers that triggered the latest round of rhetoric. But from his 2016 presidential campaign until now, he has also railed against the flow of...
A 46-year-old Woodstock man was sentenced to prison Monday after pleading guilty to delivering the dose of heroin that police said killed a McHenry man.Christopher Birong accepted an offer from the McHenry County State's Attorney's Office Monday and pleaded guilty to drug-induced homicide in connection...
CLOSE Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wochit, Elissa Robinson/WochitDETROIT – The nation's opioid crisis began with prescription...
Toronto police have arrested two men and recovered three firearms, including an assault-style rifle, and a large quantity of cocaine and fentanyl following a pair of raids in Etobicoke on Sunday.Officers from the city’s 31 Division executed search warrants at two addresses near Islington Ave....
A neurologist at New York University’s Langone hospital, has been charged with drug possession after Nassau police say they spotted the doctor holding a glass pipe with what police believe was...
Oneida County Sheriff Robert M. Maciol issued a warning Friday afternoon that the deadly opioid fentanyl was found laced into a quantity of marijuana in Sullivan County. Maciol said fentanyl is believed to be linked to a majority of overdose deaths around the country in the...