If five pedestrians died at a busy crosswalk in a 72-hour period, or five people died in a week from toxic lettuce, the clocks would stop, as the poets say, the authorities would cluster, everything menial set aside.But five sons or fathers or mothers who...
At the beginning of a video released by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a police officer is exposed to fentanyl and experiences symptoms of an overdose. The video serves to highlight the risks to first responders who may be exposed to...
Last year, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch secured a guilty plea on a...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video YORK, Pa. -- York City firefighters say they've seen an uptick in drug overdoses in the past two weeks, and the fire chief thinks he might know why. Specifically, Chief Chad Deardorff says...
Mary Byberg at a rally in Queen's Park protesting the Ford government's recent cuts to overdose prevention. Mary recently lost her daughter to an overdose. The Globe and Mail Three mothers stricken by the opioids crisis have gathered for a question-and-answer...
In a digital version of broken telephone, the debunked claim that illicit cannabis is now being laced with deadly fentanyl has travelled to the White House from a Vancouver police press release put out four years ago. Twice in the past month, the U.S....
Burlington’s efforts to fight the opioid epidemic have earned the city national attention, with Mayor Miro Weinberger and other officials touting the 50 percent decrease in opioid deaths between 2017 and 2018 in Chittenden County. During Weinberger’s State of the City address Monday, the mayor called on the Legislature to pass H.162,...
Two Monroe County men are facing years in prison after supplying heroin that lead to an overdose death of a mother who died in front of her young son. Two Monroe County men are facing years in prison after supplying heroin that lead to an overdose...
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer wants the federal government to crack down on illegal shipments of fentanyl into the United States by bolstering points of entry here in New York. ...