TAUNTON — Police say a city man who resisted arrest and stuck a bag of what appeared to be fentanyl in his mouth is lucky to be alive -- thanks to an officer who was driving him to police headquarters.The 40-year-old man, identified as James Ben...
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ROANE CO, Tenn. (WVLT) A woman in Roane County is being charged with second-degree murder after a man died from a fentanyl overdose, according to the Roane County Sheriff's Office. According to reports, Autumn Adkisson, 29, was indicted by a grand jury on two counts...
Approximately eighty people are facing charges in a months-long probe targeting a Toronto street gang that TPS Chief Mark Saunders alleges dealt fentanyl and engaged in gunplay in Toronto and across the...
Ray Csincsa walked to his room and opened the package he had just signed for. It was a cardboard envelope about a foot long, covered in Chinese lettering and addressed to his alias, Thomas Greene. Csincsa was a little surprised he had to sign for...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is facing 13 different charges in connection to a drug trafficking operation, and police had been trying to chase him down for weeks. Tevias Jackson, 23, faces a...
Two people will serve prison time for giving fentanyl, a potent painkiller, to...
MONTAGUE — A handful of local residents gathered in a women’s center Tuesday evening to learn how to administer the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone, amid a crisis only growing worse as fentanyl tightens its grip on the region.To help address the problem, Tapestry, a regional...
Drug-overdose deaths may be declining in the U.S. for the first time in decades, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Opioid Epidemic news, video,...
Sentencing moved for drug dealer involved in fentanyl overdose death of La Jolla man The sentencing for an online drug dealer who sold fentanyl-laced pills to a La Jolla man who fatally overdosed has been moved from July to...
[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Fentanyl technically has been around since the 1960s, but experts now are labeling the synthetic drug as “emerging,” largely because users are dying in greater numbers and it has become more readily available for legal...