State Rep. Jason Perillo joined his fellow colleagues and concerned citizens and organizations at the state Capitol on Tuesday for a press conference to call on the Senate to pass a House bill to strengthen penalties on fentanyl. State Rep. Jason Perillo“This bills passed with bipartisan...
During an investigation of a suspicious person this morning, Old Saybrook Police Officer Christopher Palmieri was accidentally exposed to a drug suspected to be fentanyl. He was hospitalized and released.At 10:30 a.m., Old Saybrook Police Department (OSPD) officers responded to a report of a suspicious...
WICHITA – A man and woman from Great Bend have been charged in a 10-count indictment alleging possession or sale of cocaine, fentanyl, LSD, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.Iban Martinez-Enriquez, 21, Great Bend, Kan., and Kennedy Christine Beakey, 19, Great Bend,...
LEBANON, N.H. (AP) Police reports say the death of a patient at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was first treated as a possible homicide after employees raised concerns that family members had tampered with her pain medication. Authorities later determined the Jan. 27 death of Susan Massey,...
Joe DiFazio The Patriot Ledger jldifazio Tuesday May 21, 2019 at 9:20 AM DEDHAM — A Norfolk County Grand Jury has indicted a Weymouth woman accused of dealing fentanyl.Melissa A. Edwards, 28, was indicted on trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl, distribution of fentanyl and two counts of possession of...
P.E.I. hospitals are now testing for fentanyl when patients come into an emergency department with an overdose.Doing that testing on-site means faster results and enables public health officials to see quickly if there's a spike in overdoses from fentanyl and alert the public of the risk.Fentanyl is...
Mexican cartels ship fentanyl-laced drugs to the United States from 13 states, according to the federal government. In a confidential report seen by the newspaper El Universal, the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) said that drug trafficking organizations send heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine laced with the synthetic...
CINCINNATI — Hamilton County saw a spike on overdoses over the weekend, prompting the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition to issue an alert. Following a documented spike in overdose deaths in Columbus, Hamilton County agencies began looking into numbers within Cincinnati, revealing the spike was not...
ALTON — A local man who allegedly helped a friend to buy fentanyl...