Last year, 1,489 people died from suspected illicit drug overdose deaths across British Columbia, an increase of 67 people from 2017's total of 1,422. In 2009, the illicit drug overdose death total in B.C. was 204.This health emergency continues to grow despite increased funding and efforts...
CLOSE The overprescription of opioids is leveling off, but deaths continue rising, says Dr. Marc Fishman of the Maryland Treatment Centers. He talks about addiction, treatment and bootleg fentanyl with USA TODAY Editorial Page Editor Bill Sternberg. USA TODAYThe...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In separate cases in different parts of the state, Carlique DeBerry and Marla Fenner sold fatal doses of fentanyl. One got a 20-year prison sentence. The other received 5-years of probation. "I think these two cases are not examples of anything...
A 27-year-old Neosho woman has been charged with reckless homicide for buying fentanyl-laced heroin for, and sharing it with her boyfriend, which ultimately killed him, according to a criminal complaint.Selena Leitzke was charged Feb. 4 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with first-degree reckless homicide. She...
The morning after a Hamburg man's mother found him dead of a fentanyl overdose in a chair of his home in Hamburg, a text message appeared on his phone. "Call me wen u get this bro," the text said. It was the drug dealer, Carlique DeBerry, 40,...
A box of fentanyl marked "Know what this is???!!! It is evil." Photo: National Crime AgencyIn 2017, a spike in fentanyl-related deaths in the north of England and a series of police raids on suppliers led many to believe the super potent opioid had finally...
(Photo: Arthur Debruyne/Filter)When it landed three years ago, some six guys died here in one week," says 51-year-old Roberto Prado, a homeless man who uses drugs and lives in a community of a few dozen beneath one of Tijuana's canal bridges.Until recently, people in Tijuana...
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