The opioid crisis has become increasingly worse over the last decade and is estimated to cost the U.S. government nearly $38 billion in lost tax revenue due to employment loss.Opiant Pharmaceuticals (OPNT), the company behind the overdose reversal drug Narcan, is in the process of developing nasal nalmefene, a drug...
Even in states where marijuana is legal, some patients may feel reluctant to tell their doctors exactly how much they smoke. But per a report in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, having that honest conversation may be even more important than it seems....
Guelph police are warning residents after four suspected fentanyl overdoses were reported over the weekend.Police said all four appear to be a result of blue or purple fentanyl, which typically comes with a higher potency.READ MORE: Guelph’s overdose prevention clinic approved...
Twenty-eight people – including a son and his mother, who is a fugitive – were busted this week after prosecutors say they broke up a ring that pumped out 20,000 bags of heroin a month in New Jersey. "Operation Finished Business" resulted in the arrests...
But Pence did not spend time in the city of Nogales itself. Had he done so, he might have heard a conflicting message from people in the twin cities known as "Ambos Nogales" (or "Both Nogales"): The harshness and unpredictability of Trump's border security policies...
A small study out of a western Colorado endoscopy center has broken ground in reporting that patients who regularly use marijuana require significantly greater amounts of sedatives for endoscopic procedures.Mark A. Twardowski, DO, an osteopathic internal medicine physician who practices at Western Medical Associates in...
CLOSE News you can use Asbury Park PressLaw enforcement authorities busted a heroin trafficking network they claim pushed up to 20,000 bags of heroin each month, worth up to $400,000.The group sold heroin laced with the deadlier drug fentanyl throughout the Bayshore...
Monmouth County Prosecutors have wrapped up a 16-month investigation dubbed "Operation Finished Business" where 32 people have been charged from their roles in a large scale heroin distribution ring in the Bayshore Region, announced Monmouth County Prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni.While all 32 have been charged, only 28...
He arranged for his mother to meet him in the country’s capital of Bogota. He boarded a commercial flight on July...
He arranged for his mother to meet him in the country’s capital of Bogota. He boarded a commercial flight July 17, 2015, from Montreal. As the plane started to move from the gate, he asked a Canadian federal agent who was escorting him when they...