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CLOSE News you can use Asbury Park PressLaw enforcement authorities busted a heroin trafficking network they claim pushed up to 20,000 bags of heroin each month, worth up to $400,000.The group sold heroin laced with the deadlier drug fentanyl throughout the Bayshore...

Monmouth County Prosecutors have wrapped up a 16-month investigation dubbed "Operation Finished Business" where 32 people have been charged from their roles in a large scale heroin distribution ring in the Bayshore Region, announced Monmouth County Prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni.While all 32 have been charged, only 28...

Researchers say a new report “lifts the lid” on a significant new synthetic opioid market on the dark netA new study from the Australian National University has found that Australians have access to “mass amounts” of synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and carfentanil on the...

HARTFORD — Hartford Fire Chief Scott Cooney was appointed to Gov. Phil Scott’s Opioid Coordination Council in February.The 22-member council brings together family members, law enforcement, first responders, business leaders and other community members to brainstorm responses to the opioid epidemic, including prevention, intervention and...

A YOUNG woman who stole a car has escaped serving time in prison after the court was told of her troubled upbringing. Tamicka-Jane Page Catlin-Smith pleaded guilty at Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Friday after stealing a vehicle and fuel, driving without a licence and...

CLOSE From 2015 to 2016 the number of overdose deaths rose 29 percent in New York. Natasha Vaughn, Albany BureauYONKERS - Police today warned about deadly doses of fentanyl-laced cocaine after one man died and two others were hospitalized...