Life expectancy has declined three straight years for the first time in 100 years in this country. Americans are dying sooner than their parents’ generation, and you can blame the opioid epidemic.Since the mid-1990s, we’ve seen opioids invade and destroy families and communities across America....
A Lynn man has been sentenced to over 12 years in prison and four years probation on drug distribution charges connected to the overdose death of a Melrose woman. He was also ordered to pay her funeral expenses.Federal prosecutors asked for a significantly longer prison sentence...
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - The fate of thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic hinges in part on a thorny legal question: Can a company use a bankruptcy to stop lawsuits from cities and states? FILE...
ACCESS Drug User Health Program, in conjunction with the cities of Somerville and Everett, held a discussion forum last week focusing reducing drug overdoses. ~Photos by Melissa Rosales By Melissa Rosales ACCESS Drug User Health Program partnered with the City of Somerville and Everett to discuss overdose...
CLOSE Cassandra Nygren and Shawn Gray are charged with selling fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child. USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, Green Bay Press-GazetteGREEN BAY — A man accused of helping supply Fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a pregnant woman will...
By George Woolston gwoolston@thebct.com@gcwoolston Tuesday Jun 25, 2019 at 5:42 PM Jun 25, 2019 at 5:42 PM According to the Burlington County Prosecutor's office, Daquan Marshall sold fentanyl-laced heroin that resulted in the fatal overdose of 22-year-old Alexandra Kohfeldt last year. MOUNT HOLLY — A man who authorities describe as a Trenton drug dealer was indicted in the death of...
Although marijuana remains the most widely used drug in Rutherford County, according to...
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019 at 7:52 PM Jun 25, 2019 at 7:52 PM The following statement was issued by the United States Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts.A Lynn man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for multiple drug convictions associated with his distribution of heroin and fentanyl that led to the 2017 overdose death of a...
SAN FRANCISO (KTVU) - Health officials are sounding the alarm in San Francisco. They say fentanyl is now the leading cause of...
BOSTON — A Lynn drug dealer was sentenced to 12½ years in prison on Tuesday for selling the heroin mixed with fentanyl to a 34-year-old Melrose woman that led to her fatal overdose in 2017. Yeffry Reynoso, also known as Chris, 27, pleaded guilty in January...