Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 31, 2019, 6:52 PM GMTBy Pete WilliamsThe sensitive nose of a drug-sniffing dog has led to what federal officials say is the largest seizure in US history...
CLOSE Fentanyl is way more potent than an equivalent dose of morphine. It's designed that way. Video provided by Newsy NewslookNOGALES — Customs officers stationed at the commercial border crossing in Nogales made the largest fentanyl seizure ever recorded at...
An uncle gave his 11-year-old grand-niece fentanyl and raped her before she died, police say. Miguel Rivera, 58, was arrested last month after Precious Wallaces allegedly overdosed on fentanyl while Rivera babysat her on December 15, but he was charged with rape on Tuesday after new...
Brett Szymanski knew what he was doing was wrong.As a sales representative for Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics, Szymanski was setting up paid speaker programs for a doctor who had written dozens of prescriptions for Subsys, a fentanyl spray that cost about $19,000 for a month’s dose.Often,...
Federal prosecutors are seeking a prison term of up to 14 years for a Lynn drug dealer who supplied fentanyl to a 34-year-old mother the day after she got out of rehab, leading to her fatal overdose, records show. The government also wants the dealer,...
A Manitoba mother who lost her son to a fentanyl overdose in 2014 has penned an open letter to Premier Brian Pallister, asking his government to stop politicking and start tackling the province’s meth crisis.Arlene Last-Kolb’s 24-year-old son Jessie died on July 18, 2014. Since...
Allan Doxtator knew full well he was going to jail.On Feb. 8, 2018, he was before Ontario Court Justice George Orsini to be sentenced for assault. The judge, following a joint submission from Crown and defence, sent Doxtator to jail.He was taken to Elgin-Middlesex Detention...
Physician Paul Madison is suspected of taking more than $70,000 in bribes from a drug company to churn out...