Yarmouth Police Charge Two with Trafficking Deadly Fentanyl
Meghan E. Coulstring, age 35, of West Yarmouth was arrested by Yarmouth Police on multiple drug charges. (YPD booking photo) ...
29 January, 2019
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California Nurse Charged With Illegally Selling Thousands of Drugs on Dark Web: Officials
Carrie Alaine Markis, 46, was arrested last week and was charged with distributing opioids to customers around the United States, reported the Sacramento Bee newspaper. In all, she sold more than 20,000 prescription pills via a marketplace called Farmacy41. She also used three dark websites, the...
29 January, 2019
Police save 57 people from overdose in seven months
Naloxone kit (Free Press file photo) Amid the deadly opioid crisis sweeping London streets, police officers administered an overdose-reversing drug nearly 100 times in seven months last year, new figures show.London police were equipped with the life-saving overdose medication naloxone last spring, joining many frontline emergency...
29 January, 2019
Big Oak: prison time sustained for defendant | News, Sports, Jobs
Brandy Cottrill is shown during a 2017 court appearance on charges related to Operation Big Oak. (Photo by Deanne Johnson) LISBON — Brandy A. Cottrill, a Operation Big Oak defendant, did not receive any additional prison time for her part helping with the drug ring. Cottrill, 27,...
29 January, 2019
Bust takes 15 lbs. of meth and 2,000 fentanyl pills off the streets » Albuquerque Journal
.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque JournalThe drug-smuggling pipeline from Arizona to Southeast Albuquerque was described by one defendant as a “family business.”Two weeks ago, during an initial undercover buy...
29 January, 2019
War on drugs calls for bold new strategies, not bilateral blame games
Author: Emile Dirks, University of Toronto Fentanyl, along with heroin and Oxycodone, is a drug synonymous with the United States’ opioid crisis. More than 28,000 overdose deaths in the United States were linked to this powerful opioid or its analogues in 2017. And it is from...
29 January, 2019
‘Greed’ fueled Insys founder’s opioid bribe scheme: prosecutor
BOSTON (Reuters) - A lawyer for Insys Therapeutics Inc’s one-time billionaire founder on Monday denied that he had any role in the U.S. opioid crisis as a federal prosecutor told jurors he ran a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray. John...
29 January, 2019
Insys founder’s lawyer rejects charge he fed U.S. opioid epidemic
BOSTON (Reuters) - A lawyer for Insys Therapeutics Inc’s (INSY.O) one-time billionaire founder on Monday rejected claims that her client directed a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray and denied the product was related to the U.S. opioid crisis. John Kapoor,...
28 January, 2019
Timeline shows investigation of alleged pain meds overdosing
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Investigations are underway into allegations that a doctor working for an Ohio hospital system ordered inappropriately high doses of pain medication to...
28 January, 2019