Lisman - For the fourth consecutive year, drug overdose deaths have reached a new record high in Luzerne County. The county had 156 overdose deaths in 2018, with the potential for an additional nine awaiting toxicology analysis, the coroner’s office said. In comparison, there were 155 overdose...
Barely a week after completing training to recognize opioid overdose symptoms and how to administer a lifesaving antidote, Emeryville Police Officers were put to the test. Emeryville Police Department vehicles had just recently been equipped with doses of Naloxone, a drug proven to counteract the symptoms...
All illicit drugs should be regulated to avoid situations such as a recent incident in which a buyer seeking cocaine was sold a white powder tested as 20% fentanyl, a Vancouver Coastal Health medical officer says. “In public health, we believe all psychoactive...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Little Rock based program is on a mission to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths...
Fentanyl detection strips More News Headlines LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) - A new tool meant to reduce opioid overdose deaths...
Two people accused of supplying fentanyl and needles to a man who injected the drug and died several days later have reached agreements to plead guilty to a federal drug charge, according to documents in U.S. District Court in Portland. Earl Cormier, 39, of Biddeford, is...
AUGUSTA — A Hallowell man and Pittson woman were charged with drug trafficking in Hallowell and Augusta. Ryan J. Partridge, 29, also known as “Moon,” was arrested Monday and charged with four counts of aggravated trafficking in schedule W drugs, two charges of which involved heroin...