Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium, Lucy Inglis, Pegasus Books, February 2019, 464 pages. Opioid drugs—including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioids—were responsible for nearly 50,000 overdose deaths in 2017. America is awash in them, whether stolen from a friend’s medicine cabinet, smuggled over the border,...
A powerful opioid, fentanyl, is showing up in cocaine, benzos, and molly across the Midwest and causing more accidental deaths than ever. It is extremely unlikely that a physician will ever advise you to use prescription medications or illicit drugs for recreational use, not as...
Share This Information With Others6 1 7SharesDETROIT, MI – Two men from California, who were arrested at a condo in Novi in 2017, were sentenced for their role in a drug conspiracy that resulted in, what was at the time, the third largest fentanyl seizure in the...
Federal drug enforcement agents said a raid in a suburban New York home Friday netted enough fentanyl to kill nearly 2...
After several years of slow-but-steady increases and two years of sharp climbs, drug overdose deaths in Southwestern Pennsylvania declined by more than 40 percent last year. Preliminary reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the first quarter of 2018 suggest it is a...
State health officials plan to distribute thousands of kits by the end of the month that will allow...
ARDSLEY, N.Y. (ABC) — Authorities raided a residential suburban home in leafy Westchester County, New York Friday morning and walked out...
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 News) - According to the CDC, fentanyl is now the most commonly used drug involved in overdoses in the United States. Experts in Utah are watching the fentanyl crisis on the East Coast...