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Three charged in largest fentanyl bust in Windsor County
Randall Green (left), John Barbera (top right), and Shannon Barry have been charged with trafficking fentanyl. Vermont State Police photosWHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A traffic stop on Interstate 91 in Hartland has resulted in three arrests and what a prosecutor calls the largest bust involving...
21 February, 2019
Two Miami Fentanyl Dealers Charged With Murder After Overdose Death
America's drug war is still here and still going strong. Today Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced her office had persuaded a grand jury to indict two fentanyl dealers for first-degree murder after they allegedly sold opiates to a user who died.Rundle's office said...
20 February, 2019
Schumer backs funding for device that helps police officers detect fentanyl, other lethal drugs
DEWITT, N.Y. -- Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer was in DeWitt this afternoon to announce that he is backing a bill that helps police departments purchase high-tech screening tools that detect lethal drugs, such as fentanyl.Schumer...
20 February, 2019
Doctors have been prescribing fentanyl to the wrong patients for years, new study finds
Prescription fentanyl, a highly potent and immediate-release drug meant for people with advanced cancer who have been on an opioid treatment, has been inappropriately prescribed to people who did not meet the criteria, says a new study by Johns Hopkins University researchers.The researchers, using more...
20 February, 2019
Research Shows Many Patients Were Improperly Prescribed Fentanyl
PureRadiancePhoto / Shutterstock.com Fentanyl is a powerful form of opioid given to patients who are suffering from severe pain. The medication is about 100 times more powerful than morphine. A new study shows that a large number of patients who should not have received something so...
20 February, 2019
Study: FDA, regulators could have prevented fentanyl abuse crisis
Drug makers and federal regulators dropped the ball in tracking the use of a potentially deadly fast-acting form of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, putting thousands of patients at risk of a fatal overdose, a new study claims. Transmucosal Immediate-Release Fentanyl, or TIRF, drugs are approved for...
20 February, 2019
Target deadly fentanyl dealers – Boston Herald
My son was the first person to be murdered by fentanyl in this state. It was on Jan. 2, 2015, in Roxbury. He was my only child. I wasn’t even supposed to be able to get pregnant. Now part of my life is gone. Debbie Deagle’s son...
20 February, 2019
Salisbury Man Pleads Guilty to Dealing Fentanyl Across Maryland’
BALTIMORE, Md. - A Salisbury man is facing more than a decade in prison after he pleaded guilty to dealing fentanyl and fentayl-like products across Maryland's Eastern Shore. One person died from ingesting the drugs in his possession. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Narada Walls,...
20 February, 2019
How Fentanyl Hysteria Leads to Harmful and Ineffective Drug Laws
My only experience with fentanyl was when I was pregnant. I was on a hospital bed writhing in agony when a nurse injected me with the synthetic opioid commonly used for pain management in laboring women. The drug calmed me and I soon gave birth...
20 February, 2019