In an unprecedented move to inform the public, police and emergency services gathered July 25 with health officials and representatives of the offices of the Crown attorney and regional coroner to put a spotlight on a spike in opioid drug use in North Bay. North...
10:38 AM 12/31/2018 | HealthAnders Hagstrom | Justice Reporter America’s heroin and cocaine addicts are turning to test strips in the search to combat the increasing rate fatal, fentanyl-induced overdoses. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid potent enough to kill an adult male with just two...
The Bulletin Monday Dec 31, 2018 at 10:59 AM Coffee, crime, fire and fallout from the Derbygate scandal were the most-read stories at NorwichBulletin.com in 2018. View our top ten stories by clicking the links below. 1. New coffee shop perks up downtown Norwich http://www.norwichbulletin.com/article/20180513/NEWS/180519839 2. Police seize over 1,000 bags of heroin/fentanyl in...
It was an unmerry Christmas for three Wetaskiwin-area suspects who were snared in a Dec. 20 police raid that netted drugs and guns. According to a Dec. 31 press release from Wetaskiwin RCMP spokesperson Cst. Christine Hepburn, “On...
The country's opioid overdose epidemic "continues to worsen" due to the "continuing increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids," according to a multi-year review of state data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The analysis of drug...
James Steidl | Shutterstock As the partial government shutdown continues into 2019, too much of the media is focused on the political winners and losers of the budget funding stalemate and not enough on the reason for the shutdown. Democrat opposition to border wall funding is rooted...
Narcan nasal kits to help people who are overdosing. (WCIV)CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — On Saturday, the Mount Pleasant Police Department, Wake up Carolina, and the Charleston Center came together for an urgent need: teaching people how to detect an overdose and how to ...
The CDC recently reported a decrease in the life expectancy of Americans for the third consecutive year, a trend not seen in more than a century. People of other western nations are living longer; Americans are dying younger. Why? Experts point to the “Disease of...
PLAINVILLE — A Bristol man faces charges after police said he was found with 111 bags of fentanyl along with crack cocaine and marijuana during a traffic stop early Monday. Nicholas Pugh-Williams, 27, of 403 West St., Bristol, was arrested on Monday and charged with possession with intent...
Yarmouth Police/CWN Michael C. Dietrick YARMOUTH – From Yarmouth Police: On Monday, December 31, 2018 at approximately 11:00 AM, the Yarmouth Police Department Proactive Anti-Crime Unit (PACU) conducted a motor vehicle stop on Long Pond Drive in South Yarmouth for traveling at 47 miles per hour in...