SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Onondaga County saw an 11 percent increase in opioid overdose deaths last year fueled largely by the powerful drug fentanyl.There were 101 unintended opioid deaths in 2018, up from 91 in 2017, according to the Onondaga County Health Department. The county’s...
Handout Chatham-Kent police Chief Gary Conn, left, and Insp. Trevor Crane are shown with the largest drug seizure in the municipality's history. Chatham-Kent police have made the largest drug bust in the municipality’s history, seizing more than $2.6 million worth of opioids and other illegal drugs.On...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — More than $1.5 million in fentanyl was seized during a traffic stop in the South Bay this week.A 2004 Mitsubishi Endeavor was stopped for a speeding violation on Wednesday at about 2:30 p.m. heading westbound on State route 905, according to...
BRENTWOOD -- A Salem couple is facing new charges after their infant allegedly...
Looking for a quality used fire truck? Selling one? Visit our sponsor Command Fire ApparatusA Columbia Journalism Review article today (Thursday) blames the news media and others for pushing a myth about the threat of fentanyl to firefighters, EMS, police and bystanders. Despite medical experts...
RED LAKE, Minn. (Valley News Live)- Over 50 grams of a controlled substance testing positive for fentanyl, $10,000 in cash, a hunting rifle, and a child were all found in the Red Lake community in the Littlerock District on Monday. This is the 2nd...
Treating America's Pain: Unintended Victims of the Opioid Crackdown, Part 1 – The SuicidesThe national opioid crisis propelled a crackdown on prescription painkillers, causing hundreds of doctors to abruptly reduce or completely cut off their patients’ prescriptions, leaving many among the estimated 20 million Americans...
Amit Anthony Singh, 26, of Monrovia, Md.: charged with the possession, possession with the intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine, fentanyl mixed with heroin, possession and possession with the intent to distribute Suboxone/buprenorphine and heroin and the possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, fentanyl mixed...
Staff Sgt. Pierre Blais poses for a photo with a drug shipment from BC containing 60 kg of marijuana, drug manufacturing equipment and 2,000 fentanyl pills during a press conference at ALERT Edmonton in Edmonton, Alta., on Tuesday June 14, 2016. Ian Kucerak / Ian Kucerak/Postmedia A...
Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff is warning the public that marijuana laced with the powerful narcotic drug fentanyl has made it's way to Sullivan County.On Monday evening, a sheriff's deputy was patrolling the parking lot of the Walmart in Monticello he observed a car parked, facing...