Cascone visits her daughter's gravesite every day. She prays and sings a song. The headstone shows that Katie Lynn Sheidt would be turning 35 on Monday. Cascone buried Katie in October of 2014. She was 30 when she died of a heroin overdose. The 2002 Saratoga Springs...
As baseless public health scares go, the one about police officers and nurses purportedly overdosing from passive fentanyl exposure should have been easy to dispel. Emergency workers across the country have reported dozens of such incidents in recent years, but their symptoms are often inconsistent...
Calls to address the opioid crisis resumed Thursday as lawmakers released a bill that aims to curb the flow of illegal opioids into the United States and another to help physicians learn more about a patient’s substance abuse history.The separate actions by a bipartisan group...
A homeless heroin addict pauses to shoot up by a railway underpass in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, which has become a hub for heroin use. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images)The U.S. attorney in Philadelphia and a high-powered nonprofit are embroiled in a legal battle over the...
HARTFORD, CT — It makes little sense to some legislators that they’ve spent the past few years passing numerous bills to combat the opioid epidemic but have done nothing to increase the penalties for those who traffic fentanyl — the drug that contributes more than...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - In light of the large number of overdose deaths from fentanyl, U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Democratic Leader Chuck...
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn outreach program and follow-up survey by Brown University in the United States aims to prevent overdoses in drug users by using fentanyl testing strips.Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is cut in with drug purchases (such as cocaine or heroin)...
Schumer - Toomey - WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey says “illicit fentanyl” has inflicted severe suffering on Pennsylvania families and communities. To address the problem, Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, on Thursday introduced new legislation to stop the influx...
A homeless heroin addict pauses to shoot up by a railway underpass in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, which has become a hub for heroin use. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images)The U.S. attorney in Philadelphia and a high-powered nonprofit are embroiled in a legal battle over the...