Norwich — City police say two people have been arrested and several drugs seized in connection with a recent overdose investigation.An overdose prompted Officer Nathan O'Keefe and the department's Narcotics Division to obtain a search warrant for 13 Carlson St. on Thursday evening, according to a news...
Last May, staff from New York City’s Department of Health and Hygiene toured bars and nightclubs to spread the word that the city’s cocaine was being laced with the lethal synthetic opioid fentanyl. “We want [people] to know that fentanyl is in our cocaine supply,...
Chemists and engineers are turning their attention to trying to alleviate some of the suffering caused by the opioid epidemic ravaging the US, driven by an unprecedented surge in deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opiates. Overall, opioid-related deaths in the US spiked from approximately 18,500...
Sen. Rob Portman’s STOP Act aimed to beef up the U.S. Postal Service’s...
Sen. Rob Portman’s STOP Act aimed to beef up the U.S. Postal Service’s...
Sen. Rob Portman’s STOP Act aimed to beef up the U.S. Postal Service’s...
Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Washington, D.C. - (WBRE/WYOU) In light of the large number...
Congress is ramping up pressure on China to crack down on the shipment of the deadly, synthetic opioid fentanyl, this as President Donald Trump meets with the vice premier of China amid crucial trade talks between the two countries. It’s not often the Senate’s Democratic leader...
Fentanyl and meth that were seized in January by Customs and Border Protection officers is shown at a news conference in Nogales, Ariz. (Mamta Popat/AP) THERE WERE 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, according to the...