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03 January, 2019
Fentanyl
Opioid Crisis – New Tool Is Developed In The Fight Against Overdose Deaths: Fentanyl Test Strips
CNN’s latest reports regarding the fight against opioid crisis are pretty interesting. It seems that there’s a new controversial tool that emerged in the battle against overdose-related deaths. It is a strip that lets people who are using street drugs such as heroin and cocaine...
03 January, 2019
London police charge 2 following largest fentanyl seizure in force’s history – London
Two people are facing charges following the largest fentanyl seizure London police have ever made.On Wednesday at around 8 p.m., officers with the Guns and Drugs section observed suspicious activity by a man in a rental vehicle in the area of...
03 January, 2019
Highway Drug Bust In Lake Township
Baroda-Lake Township police managed to make a drug bust during a traffic stop on I-94 on Wednesday. The Baroda-Lake Township Police Department tells us Officer John Hopkins stopped a vehicle for speeding on westbound 94 near mile marker 17 around 10:30 a.m. and did a...
03 January, 2019
London police arrest two in city’s biggest-ever fentanyl bust
London police have made the largest seizure of the hyper-potent opioid fentanyl in city history, taking more than $295,000 of the oft-deadly drug off the streets.Members of the police guns and drugs section seized powdered fentanyl along with two naloxone kits – an overdose antidote...
03 January, 2019
LMPD K9 sniffs out $200,000 worth of fake pills hidden under minivan
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville Metro Police, with the help of a clever K9, halted a dangerous drug operation in its tracks.According...
03 January, 2019
Experts Insist Opioid Fentanyl Could Be Used as ‘Tool of Terror’
Terrorists could potentially use fentanyl – a synthetic opioid mainly produced in China that is the primary source of the fatal overdose epidemic in the United States – as a “weapon of mass destruction,” Bloomberg News recently reported, citing experts and echoing other articles. On December...
03 January, 2019
Christmas tree reminds locals of overdose victims
Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pa. - The holidays are about spending time with family and loved ones, but for some, it's a reminder of who they've lost to addiction.Marianne Sinisi lost her son, Shawn,...
03 January, 2019
Hyannis man denies fentanyl trafficking charge – News – capecodtimes.com
Kristen Young @KristenCCT BARNSTABLE — A Hyannis man pleaded not guilty Monday in Barnstable District Court to charges of fentanyl trafficking after a Yarmouth police officer conducting a traffic stop found more than 25 grams of the drug in his possession, according to...
03 January, 2019