CONCORD – Authorities on Thursday arrested a total of 15 New Hampshire residents on a variety of federal charges, with many of them related to fentanyl and/or other drugs.Those arrested include: Thomas Blanchette, 42, Rochester – conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 40...
In all, there were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in 2017. Opioids were involved in 67.8%, or 47,600 of those deaths. Of those opioid-involved overdose deaths, 59.8% of them, or 28,466, were due to synthetic opioids. "The opioid overdose epidemic continues to worsen and evolve because...
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Patients are being denied NHS prescriptions for medicinal cannabis despite it now being legal, according to campaigners. Carly Barton claims her experience so far of trying to get the treatment on the NHS since the law change feels “like being blacklisted”. Unable to afford...
By Ethan WestonDecember 22, 2018Another CDC report from earlier in December found that in 2016 fentanyl surpassed heroin as the most deadly drug used in the U.S.Deaths from synthetic opioids like fentanyl rose by 45 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to a new report by the...
(CNN) – Illegally manufactured fentanyl was the driving force behind a 45.2 percent increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids from 2016 to 2017, according to a new report published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all, there were 70,237 drug overdose deaths...