Fentanyl

Antoun Moore pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver fentanyl in the case. An Erie County judge declined to issue a lengthier sentence Tuesday for a convicted fentanyl dealer who was made eligible for parole at his sentencing earlier this month.Judge Daniel Brabender rejected a...

Shane Wayne Landis, 47, 900 block of Southeast Nassau Avenue, Stuart; warrant for failure to appear, CF case management, sale or delivery of fentanyl, possession of fentanyl, unlawful use of a two-way communications device.Nathan Jereme Hicks, 37, no listed street address, city; warrant for DUI...

A beloved 11-year-old Haverhill girl who slipped into a coma and died last month after a sleepover at her great-uncle’s single-room apartment tested positive for fentanyl in her system, officials at Lawrence General Hospital told investigators, a police report released today states. Miguel Rivera, 58, who...

Doctors who receive direct payments from opioid manufacturers tend to prescribe more opioids than doctors who receive no such payments, new research shows. The report, published in the journal Addiction, found that the association between payments and prescribing is strongest for hydrocodone and oxycodone, the most...