A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Thursday sanctioning drug traffickers to strong-arm China into following through on its pledge to slow the supply of the deadly opioid fentanyl to the U.S. ...
A large amount of heroin and fentanyl was intercepted on its way to the Battle Creek area this week after a bust by a coalition of area law enforcement agencies.WOODTV says that according to the Southwest Enforcement Team, authorities were tipped off that the drugs were...
Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine. File Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVermont’s top health official is pushing back on efforts to allow possession of a popular opioid treatment drug without a prescription, a proposal he said would get his “slam dunk” support in any other state.Health Commissioner...
A view of trash that drug users left under a Philadelphia bridge in 2017. City officials are trying to come up with innovative solutions for the opioid crisis. One possibility — a safe injection site — has drawn federal scrutiny. (Salwan Georges/The Washington...
Fentanyl is killing black people in Connecticut at the same rate as whites for the first time since state officials began tracking the epidemic around 2012, a CT Mirror analysis has found.There is no clear consensus among experts in Connecticut as to what is driving...
This week’s spike in opioid overdoses across Southwestern Ontario is what the region’s top medical officer is calling “the worst it’s ever been” since fentanyl arrived on the drug scene a year ago.Chris Mackie, the chief medical officer of health at the Middlesex-London health unit...
This week’s spike in opioid overdoses across Southwestern Ontario is what the region’s top medical officer is calling “the worst it’s ever been” since fentanyl arrived on the drug scene a year ago.Chris Mackie, the chief medical officer of health at the Middlesex-London health unit...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A drug ring investigation led to the arrest of 7 people from Harrisburg. Now, three of the accused are potentially facing life behind bars. All 7 people are accused of selling...
It’s not often you see the words “win” and “Trump” in a headline on CNN’s website. It’s rarer still when those words are separated by the word “for” and not some variation of that “win” being against the president. Yet that happened on Monday because,...
A 21-year-old Stoney Creek man is facing heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine possession charges after a traffic stop early Wednesday.Shortly after midnight, Hamilton police say they pulled over a grey Mazda 3 “operating in a suspicious manner” in the area of Barton...