Chinese-made drugs 100 times stronger than morphine flood Australia as authorities warn the country is on the cusp of a deadly new opioids crisis Authorities warned synthetic opioids are being mailed in mass...
Naloxone is an opioid-overdose antidote that if widely used could help stem the tide of the more than 130 Americans who die each day of drug overdoses. The drug has no potential for abuse and is harmless to those who are not experiencing an opioid...
While statewide data showed improvement, Washington County saw an apparent uptick in overdose...
Mike Pompeo / Getty Images BY: Charles Fain Lehman Follow @CharlesFLehman June 11, 2019 5:00 pmSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the United States is making progress in an increasingly global drug war, although Chinese drug gangs and the "Maduro mafia" are posing major barriers to...
Michael Smothers GateHouse Media Illinois Tuesday Jun 11, 2019 at 3:44 PM Jun 11, 2019 at 5:45 PM A Washington man will serve a 10-year prison term for supplying heroin laced with a deadly additive that combined to kill a Pekin man two years ago.Tayrod Fields, 25, accepted that sentence when he pleaded guilty Monday to drug-induced homicide,...
Huron County OPP say they have put a “significant dent” in the local drug supply after a traffic stop netted nearly $21,000 worth of fentanyl.A 38-year-old South Huron man faces a raft of charges, including two counts of possession for the purposes of trafficking.Just after...
A Madison woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reckless homicide charge for supplying...
CLOSEA man and woman from Milwaukee have been charged with giving the controlled substance fentanyl to a Brookfield man, causing his death in 2018. Kenyon Q. Pugh, 32, and Simona L. Ramirez, 43, were charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on June 10 with first-degree reckless homicide. If...
Staff reports Tuesday Jun 11, 2019 at 12:39 PM GROVELAND — A Steuben County man was arrested by Livingston County Sheriff's Deputies after a traffic stop and investigation on Interstate 390.On May 21, Deputy Shawn Whitford was assigned to the Sheriff’s Office Operation Safe Interstate initiative when he stopped a vehicle for a traffic...