Fentanyl
Luzerne County overdose deaths break another record
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...
03 January, 2019
EPD Officers being equipped with Naloxone to combat surge in Opioid Overdoses
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...
03 January, 2019
Regulate all illicit drugs to stem opioid tide: medical health officer
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...
03 January, 2019
Central Arkansas Harm Reduction Project hotline provides free naloxone kits
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Little Rock based program is on a mission to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths...
03 January, 2019
Some worry new fentanyl-detecting strips could enable drug users, local doctors disagree
Fentanyl detection strips More News Headlines LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) - A new tool meant to reduce opioid overdose deaths...
03 January, 2019
Two Mainers to plead guilty to drug charge in case that led to overdose death
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...
03 January, 2019
Pair charged with trafficking drugs in Augusta, Hallowell
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...
02 January, 2019