SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Drug users are being urged to not use alone and keep naloxone nearby after first responders dealt with at least a dozen overdoses in Surrey on Sunday. Dr. Shovita Padhi with...
After five days of witness testimony in New Westminster Supreme Court, the Crown has wrapped its case in a South Delta fentanyl trial. On Monday afternoon Crown prosecutor Adrienne Switzer rested the Crown’s case against Daniel Chun Chesshire, who is facing one count...
Two men are in federal custody after they were allegedly caught with more than 40 pounds of an opioid up to 50 times more powerful than heroin.Luis Aponte, 48, and Denny Diaz, 29, were charged with one count of conspiracy to possess fentanyl with...
(WBNG) — One local organization is hoping to fight overdose deaths in a new way. “For the parents out there who’ve lost a loved one, that’s a permanent condition, if somebody dies, they’re gone forever,” said Truth Pharm’s Executive Director Alexis Pleus. She says in the last...
This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) Copyright by WOODTV - All rights reserved This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the...
The lawsuit against Purdue Pharma filed by the attorney general in Massachusetts amounts to "oversimplified scapegoating" unsupported by the law, the company said in a new court filing. In a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the Sackler family - owners of Purdue Pharma, the...
Five Wilmington, Del., firefighters and...
Guelph police say officers seized over $28,000 worth of drugs from a north-end motel on Friday.Officers were dealing with an incident when the narcotics were noticed, leading to the arrest of a 22-year-old Toronto man and a 17-year-old Guelph girl. READ MORE:...
In a January 8 prime-time border security speech so unpersuasive that only 2 percent of Quinnipiac poll respondents said it changed their minds, President Donald Trump did the country a rare rhetorical favor. By thoroughly blurring the lines between immigration and drug policy—at one point...
Growing up in the farmlands around Dayton, south-west Ohio, a teenage Randy Carmack knew many “little old ladies” whose cupboards contained powerful painkillers. “One had a leg amputation and she didn’t like her fentanyl patches, so I bought her prescription from her granddaughter,” he said. Carmack...