Cody Shepard The Enterprise @cshepard_ENT Thursday May 30, 2019 at 9:38 AM Police say they seized 4.4 grams of fentanyl during a drug raid Thursday morning. BROCKTON — A man and a woman are facing charges of selling drugs out of a house that is located only a few hundred feet from an...
In 2017, there were 39 overdose fatalities related to opioid use in St. Johns County, according to the most recent statistics available by the Centers for Disease Control. At least some of those deaths might have been preventable if Narcan, the opioid reversal treatment, was administered...
The death rate for young people due to opioid poisoning nearly tripled from 1999 to 2016, and the crisis continues to devastate a wide range of people from different backgrounds. News on the epidemic also focuses on the former president of Purdue Pharma, a physician...
CLEVELAND — Cuyahoga County health officials are encouraging drug users to pick up free test strips that can detect the presence...
LORAIN, Ohio — Six people were rushed to Mercy Medical Center in Lorain just before 1 a.m. on Thursday after they were exposed to the dangerous and powerful drug fentanyl, according to the Lorain Fire Department. Assistant Fire Chief Matt Homolya said the fire department...
Tom Petty’s widow has issued legal threats against his eldest daughter, Adria, accusing her of planning to create a Paul Newman-style range of salad dressings using her father’s image.The new allegations are part of a broader feud between Dana and Petty’s daughters by his first...
A California court charged nearly four dozen people last week for violating US drug and money laundering laws as part of a multi-state methamphetamine distribution ring. The drug traffickers, however, didn’t use any sophisticated techniques to get the drugs over the border. They simply mailed...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video LORAIN, Ohio -- Six people were taken to the hospital for fentanyl exposure inside the Lorain City Jail early Thursday morning. According to LifeCare Ambulance in Lorain, three Lorain police officers, two EMS...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Bronx woman is being accused of killing her...
Dr. Sunit Ranade, medical officer of health in Sarnia, says a recent rash of overdoses at the Sarnia jail could force public health to address opioids as an occupational hazard. (Tyler Kula/Sarnia Observer) The region’s top public health official says it’s bad news if the drug...