Dr. Marjorie Van der Linden said she spoke with Eurchuk in November 2016 about the risks of overdose associated with using street drugs after his mother found a bag containing marijuana and sedation-type pills in his room but he defiantly denied using drugs. “He was denying he...
HOISINGTON — A 40-year-old woman who went into cardiac arrest last Thursday at a Hoisington residence apparently ingested fake Oxycodone being distributed in Kansas. The incident led law enforcement to Great Bend and resulted in a drug arrest. Police officers from Hoisington, Great Bend and...
VISTA, Calif. - Two years after a Navy man died from an overdose...
A 49-year-old Crystal Lake man pleaded guilty Friday to unlawful possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.Roman Castro entered a guilty plea to manufacturing and delivery of 100 to 400 grams of heroin/analog, according to court...
A 29-year-old man has admitted selling heroin to an area resident who died of...
CLOSE See what fentanyl is and how it's been tainting other drugs, causing overdose and death in unprecedented numbers. Terry DeMio, tdemio@enquirer.comAn unusual number of fatal overdoses, combined with a dozen people hospitalized for possible overdose in a 24-hour...
Steve Cody doesn't want to see it happen to another family. His son Nick was 17 in 2013 when he passed away after taking the popular party drug MDMA, a pill later determined to be laced with fentanyl. This weekend's...
One year ago, Republicans and Democrats put partisan labels aside to confront a killer claiming more than 130 lives a day in the United States: the opioid crisis. The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act...
Listen Story audio 4min 17sec In emotional testimony, the surviving relatives of Spencer Johnson and Nicholas Petrick described their loss as a result of opioid overdoses, as a convicted drug dealer faced sentencing in a Hennepin County courtroom Friday. Both men died...