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8-Month-Old Baby Exposed to Cocaine, Burlington Man Charged: Police
BURLINGTON, N.C. — Burlington Police charged a man after a baby was exposed to cocaine Sunday morning.Police say an 8-month-old was...
04 March, 2019
Overdose deaths in Pittsburgh region decline sharply
After several years of slow-but-steady increases and two years of sharp climbs, drug overdose deaths in Southwestern Pennsylvania declined by more than 40 percent last year. Preliminary reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the first quarter of 2018 suggest it is a...
03 March, 2019
Maryland to distribute fentanyl test strips to allow users to test drugs
State health officials plan to distribute thousands of kits by the end of the month that will allow...
03 March, 2019
House raid recovers enough fentanyl to kill 2 nearly million people
March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and law enforcement officers recovered enough fentanyl to kill nearly 2 million people during a raid in a residential home in New York. Five kilograms, which is just over 11 pounds of the synthetic opioid, and 6...
03 March, 2019
Wayne Man Charged With User’s Fentanyl, Heroin Death
A Wayne man initially arrested on a minor drug charge is facing much more...
02 March, 2019
DEA seizes enough fentanyl to kill TWO MILLION people in raid
Five people are arrested in New York 'drug mill' raid where the DEA seizes enough fentanyl to kill TWO MILLION people and discovers the drugs concealed in furnitureDEA agents and Greenburgh police raided...
02 March, 2019
Feds raid fentanyl and heroin mill in affluent New York City suburb
The feds raided a fentanyl and heroin mill in the New York City suburb of Ardsley. Among the items seized was a press used to form the kilos. ...
02 March, 2019
DEA raids alleged drug mill, recovers enough fentanyl to kill 2 million people
ARDSLEY, N.Y. (ABC) — Authorities raided a residential suburban home in leafy Westchester County, New York Friday morning and walked out...
02 March, 2019
Fentanyl blamed for Sebastian County inmate’s death
Adrian Goodwin was being held in the Sebastian County Detention Center in July, 2018 for violating his probation. Goodwin died July, 24th after jailers found him unresponsive inside his jail cell.On Friday, Prosecutor Daniel Shue announced he was not seeking criminal charges in connection to...
02 March, 2019