Fentanyl and meth that were seized in January by Customs and Border Protection officers is shown at a news conference in Nogales, Ariz. (Mamta Popat/AP) THERE WERE 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, according to the...
Wilmington Police Departments announces details about Operation Toothfairy on April 4, 2019. (Photo: WWAY) ...
Cascone visits her daughter's gravesite every day. She prays and sings a song. The headstone shows that Katie Lynn Sheidt would be turning 35 on Monday. Cascone buried Katie in October of 2014. She was 30 when she died of a heroin overdose. The 2002 Saratoga Springs...
As baseless public health scares go, the one about police officers and nurses purportedly overdosing from passive fentanyl exposure should have been easy to dispel. Emergency workers across the country have reported dozens of such incidents in recent years, but their symptoms are often inconsistent...
CLOSE York City police Officer Derek Hartman describes the rules for motor vehicles and pedestrians at crosswalks. Paul Kuehnel and Teresa Boeckel, York Daily RecordScott Michael Klunk is charged in connection with the death of Lonny Baer, 28, after...
Calls to address the opioid crisis resumed Thursday as lawmakers released a bill that aims to curb the flow of illegal opioids into the United States and another to help physicians learn more about a patient’s substance abuse history.The separate actions by a bipartisan group...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Noting that an average of 11 Ohioans die each day from opioid overdoses, Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown on Thursday sponsored a bipartisan bill that would impose sanctions on China for producing fentanyl that makes its way to the United States.The...
ZANESVILLE - Four Zanesville residents have been charged with trafficking drugs following a multi-county investigation. On Thursday, while investigating a citizens complaint about drug activity at an apartment located at 715 Elberon Ave., in downtown Zanesville, ZPD officers initiated a traffic stop.Richard Goldsmith (Photo: Submitted)Richard Goldsmith, 41,...
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and a bipartisan group of Senators want sanctions on the table to ensure the Chinese government adequately regulates fentanyl. The Chinese government agreed earlier this week to classify fentanyl and its variants as controlled substances. The measure would set the...
A homeless heroin addict pauses to shoot up by a railway underpass in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, which has become a hub for heroin use. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images)The U.S. attorney in Philadelphia and a high-powered nonprofit are embroiled in a legal battle over the...