How Leeds Fentanyl trio’s dark web drug website worked according to the National Crime Agency
The National Crime Agency has outlined how three men ran a dark web site selling deadly Fentanyl around the world. Three men...
19 January, 2019
First Responders
Police and Media Keep Spreading the Myth That Merely Touching Fentanyl Can Kill You
Vials of prescription fentanyl at the University of Utah HospitalPhoto: Rick Bowmer (AP)Last Saturday, police in Chico, California reported that 13 people in the same house were involved in a mass drug overdose, possibly involving the powerful opioid fentanyl, with at least one person...
18 January, 2019
Firsthand accounts indicate fentanyl test strips are effective in reducing overdose risk
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid so potent that a miniscule amount equivalent to several grains of saltcan cause afataloverdose. Yet it's difficult for people who use drugs to detect, which presents a major public health hazard given how commonly fentanyl...
18 January, 2019
Three men who ran dark web site from Leeds selling deadly Fentanyl drug worldwide get 43 years jail
Three men who ran a dark web business which sold potentially deadly drugs around the world have been jailed. Three men including...
18 January, 2019
Federal charges filed after agents find pounds of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine in car, authorities say
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Texas man arrested while passing through the Cleveland area in late December was indicted this week after authorities found pounds of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in a car he was driving, officials said.Roland...
18 January, 2019
North Andover police arrest alleged dealer and customer in restroom fentanyl drug bust
North Andover Police Department North Andover police arrested a 24-year-old alleged drug dealer from Boston and his alleged customer inside a restroom at the North Andover Mall on Thursday, the department said. Luis Gonzalez, 24, a Dominican national who has a Boston address but has been...
18 January, 2019
Law enforcement hopes ‘Narcan 2’ can ‘save a life twice’
Reviving someone from an overdose is just one step in tackling complicated addiction issues.When emergency responders administer Narcan, the antidote to an opioid or opiate overdose, they only lift a patient out of a dangerous overdose state, but there is more to treating addiction than...
18 January, 2019
Mount Carmel victim’s wife: ‘I think the man should be in jail’ – News – The Columbus Dispatch
Christine Allison's husband, Troy, died after being given a 1,000 microgram dose of fentanyl ordered by Dr. William Husel after going to Mount Carmel West in July. He died at age 44. Christine Allison told her husband, Troy, that she would see him at Mount Carmel...
18 January, 2019
Texts between Westfield manslaughter defendants and woman who fatally overdosed presented at trial
SPRINGFIELD — Jurors in the manslaughter case arising from a Westfield overdose spent the first part of Thursday hearing what was said in texts between the two defendants and the woman who died.Daryn M. Sampson, 35, and...
18 January, 2019