Thursday, March 14, 2019 View Larger + Fentanyl & DEA Photo A comprehensive series published by The Washington Post about the failures of the administrations of President Barack Obama and Donald Trump on combating America’s greatest public health crisis -- drug overdoses -- claim that the Fentanyl epidemic...
Purdue Pharma’s chief executive said the company is considering bankruptcy as it faces a cascade of lawsuits alleging that the drugmaker played a key role in driving the nation’s opioid crisis, including aggressively and deceptively marketing the powerful painkiller OxyContin.Purdue’s president and chief executive, Craig...
BUFFALO – Dontrell Wise will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge sentenced the convicted drug dealer to life in prison for selling a fatal dose of drugs that killed a Cheektowaga woman in 2017.The 32-year-old from Buffalo sold approximately 10...
The Harford County Health Department has applied to the state for 2,000 kits that will test for fentanyl in...
They're about the size of a band aid, and they can help save the lives of drug addicts.Tiny "test strips" are being used by addicts to test the heroin or methamphetamine they have, to see if it's laced with fentanyl.Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid...
A West Baltimore drug dealer was sentenced to 24 years in prison for conspiring to distribute enough fentanyl to...
A man is incarcerated at the St. Francois County Jail awaiting charges after...
It's another busy Thursday at Ottawa Inner City Health's supervised injection site on the edge of the ByWard Market. Clean needles, alcohol wipes and other supplies hang in stainless steel tins inside the cramped trailer, tucked behind the Shepherds of Good Hope shelter on Murray...
A woman from Tampa, Florida, was arrested and charged with distributing drugs causing the death of an individual. Investigators caught the 28-year-old woman with the help of an undercover officer who posed as the dead customer.Joamary Rosario was caught after she allegedly sold 10 bags...