SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KGTV) - As deaths in the US from suicide and opioid overdose skyrocket, San Diego health leaders have plans already in action to fight the rising trend."People are living in a lot of pain," says Dana Richardson, who oversees the Community Health...
BUCKS COUNTY, PA — A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to up to 30 years in state prison for selling the fentanyl that killed a man in Bucks County last year. William Frank Brennan, 21, pleaded guilty in November to charges...
A Bucks County man will spend at least a decade, and up to 30 years, in state prison for selling the fentanyl that killed a 23-year-old then continuing to sell the powerful opioid painkiller.William Frank Brennan, 21,...
The governor says his proposed budget includes alternative treatments for some chronic pain conditions and plans to distribute fentanyl testing kits to slow the rate of overdoses Gov. Jay Inslee proposed the state spend $30 million to help combat the...
PARKERSBURG — The first person convicted in Wood County under a new state law specifically targeting the dealers of drugs that cause fatal overdoses was sentenced Monday to prison, where he will serve at least five years.Christopher Masten, 29, in custody at the North Central...
John Kapoor made his bones in part by his investments in Insys Therapeutics, for which manufacturing fentanyl was a big part of daily business. As a result of his highly criticized business practices, he has for the last five years been referred to as a...
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of five years of death certificates (2011-2016) found that among drug overdose deaths 29 percent were due to fentanyl by 2016, a huge leap from 4 percent in 2011, when oxycodone was most dangerous...
More than 100 drop boxes have been placed throughout King County in an effort to get secure unneeded opioids. By ...
Fentanyl pills photographed at Calgary Police headquarters. Gavin Young / Postmedia A Toronto man who brought a large amount of dangerous drugs to Sudbury is headed to the penitentiary and perhaps an uncertain future in Canada.“Fentanyl is probably more lethal than heroin and hydromorphone is as serious...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. – A two-year investigation in Snohomish County has led to the arrest of several suspected drug traffickers, some of whom have ties to a Mexican drug cartel. According to the Snohomish...