CONCORD – U.S. Attorney Scott Murray said Steven Moore, 36, of Plymouth, New Hampshire, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Court filings and statements made in court established that Moore and Samantha Merrifield arranged to sell...
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The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office is the latest local law enforcement agency to train its officers to carry and administer the life-saving drug naloxone. With exposure to the deadly opiate substance fentanyl on the rise, and the number of overdoses continuing to climb, the agency...
The Scales of Justice statue at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. Chad Aaron Bissat is going to jail for four years after police seized a large cache of drugs from him, including more than 600 fentanyl pills. Jason Payne / PNG A Kamloops man who was convicted...
AutoplayShow ThumbnailsShow CaptionsLast SlideNext SlideStory HighlightsSyringe exchange participants are 5X more likely to seek addiction treatment.Needle exchange helps prevent the spread of hepatitis and HIV.There are fewer dangerous dirty needles littering Louisville because of the syringe exchange program.A tall and slender woman with sunken cheeks...
Two officers from the Phoenix police department were taken to a hospital Tuesday night due to possible exposure to a substance believed to be fentanyl.The Phoenix Police Department confirmed that the two officers came across a “white powdery substance” after they arrested a subject near 43rd Avenue...
(3TV/CBS 5) - Last month, a Scottsdale high schooler almost died.A frantic dad called...
WESTERLY — Two central Connecticut women are facing drug charges after police found them...
The Ottawa Police Service is investigating a spate of suspected drug overdoses, three of which were fatal.Over the course of 14 hours on Monday, police responded to five separate incidents involving six individuals requiring emergency medical treatment. Two of the suspected...
On March 16 the Vermont-based site VTDigger became the latest news platform to share a breathless story about a police officer overdosing via a brief incidental exposure to drugs. In this case Sgt. Brett Flansburg “collected a small quantity of heroin in a plastic baggie”...