Chris Mackie, the top public health official for London and Middlesex County, held a Friday press conference with London police chief John Pare to discuss the rash of recent drug overdoses that have killed five London men in the past six days. (MIKE HENSEN,...
Safe Station designations and NaloxBoxes, among community-based prevention activities designed to combat "the most important public health crisis of our time,” could be in place by summer in Newport. NEWPORT — The Newport Fire Department may soon become a “Safe Station,” a designation that signals its fire...
Posted: Apr. 7, 2019 12:01 am The Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders looks poised...
Shane Jensen died of an opioid overdose on Oct. 5, 2018, but he saved two others: a stranger and his daughter.Jensen’s death contributed to a record year of lives lost from opioids in Reno County, according to Sheriff Randy Henderson. His oldest daughter, Desiree, quit...
A federal judge struck down a lawsuit Thursday that threatened much of the state’s transportation funding, potentially sparing passenger rail service through Altoona — at least for now.A trucking industry group is appealing the Thursday ruling by U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane, which said it’s...
A family dog in Australia survived the harrowing ordeal of swallowing six baggies of heroin. According to an April 6 report by the Daily Mail, a cocker spaniel on a walk with its owner at a park in Brompton, Australia, picked up the bag of drugs...
Recent headlines sweeping across the United States have provided us with the slow but steady release of legal documents detailing how opioid and fentanyl-based painkillers have been marketed to vulnerable populations, such as children, the elderly and veterans. With the opioid epidemic affecting an estimated...
Sunday Apr 7, 2019 at 3:41 AM Our society is crumbling beneath our feet. Not only socially, but economically as well.Immigration is a big, controversial topic in the United States today, so I want to give my take on it. We need to stop illegal immigration and implement stronger laws to get...
There were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a number greater than all American deaths during the entire Vietnam War. Some 28,466 of those involved fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid that is...