HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Police announced Monday that troopers confiscated $16,982,054 worth of cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin, fentanyl and other prohibited drugs in the fourth quarter of 2018. From Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, state police seized nearly 224 pounds of cocaine and 26 pounds of heroin. Troopers also confiscated...
Officials at Mount Carmel Health System says they’ve notified authorities about a doctor accused of giving “significantly excessive and potentially fatal doses” to more than two dozen near-death patients. In a statement Monday, Mount Carmel CEO Edward Lamb said they’ve fired the doctor, identified in...
Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus investigating intensive care doctor. COLUMBUS An intensive care doctor in the Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus has been fired after being accused of giving excessive and potentially fatal doses of the powerful painkiller fentanyl to at least 27 patients...
Some roads were closed in Fresno’s Tower District on Monday afternoon as police searched for evidence at a residence related to a fentanyl investigation.Earlier in the day, a coalition of law enforcement and health officials held a news conference at the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office...
OROVILLE — The man who died Saturday in what Chico police have described as a massive overdose incident has been identified. The Butte County Coroner’s Office said Monday he is Aris Turner, 34, of Chico. The Coroner’s Office said an autopsy is pending, and it was not...
One person died and 12 others were hospitalized in a mass overdose in Chico on Saturday. (Kayla Fitzgerald -- Enterprise-Record) (Photo: Picasa)Butte County officials are trying to determine whether overdoses reported today at the casino in Oroville are related to the mass overdose that happened over...
CLOSE The newest tool in the fight against opioid overdoses is an inexpensive test strip that can detect the presence of a potentially deadly painkiller. (Sept 17) APA Michigan couple is facing murder charges in the Christmas Day death of...
FRESNO, Calif. - A Fresno man is dead, and two other men have been hospitalized, after police said they overdosed on fentanyl last Monday. The opioid...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WBNS-TV) -- A Mount Carmel West doctor, nurse and pharmacist have been accused of ordering and providing lethal doses...
CHICO (CBS13) — The opioid epidemic is hitting close to home. This weekend in Chico one man died and a dozen others were rushed to the hospital after overdosing on fentanyl. The incident happened on the 1100 block of Santana Court. Chico Police Chief Michael O’Brien says...