Carrie Alaine Markis, 46, was arrested last week and was charged with distributing opioids to customers around the United States, reported the Sacramento Bee newspaper. In all, she sold more than 20,000 prescription pills via a marketplace called Farmacy41. She also used three dark websites, the...
Naloxone kit (Free Press file photo) Amid the deadly opioid crisis sweeping London streets, police officers administered an overdose-reversing drug nearly 100 times in seven months last year, new figures show.London police were equipped with the life-saving overdose medication naloxone last spring, joining many frontline emergency...
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Author: Emile Dirks, University of Toronto Fentanyl, along with heroin and Oxycodone, is a drug synonymous with the United States’ opioid crisis. More than 28,000 overdose deaths in the United States were linked to this powerful opioid or its analogues in 2017. And it is from...
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 22: The shadow of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is cast on a photograph of heroin and fentanyl during a news conference the U.S. Capitol March 22, 2018 in Washington, DC. In an attempt to fight America's opioid epidemic,...
One year ago, 27-year-old Amber DeSisti was found frozen outside the Bradford County, Pa., courthouse after she died from an opioid overdose. About a year before, just a few miles away, Ben Kinsman, 28,...
Doreen Slocum started doing drugs in her early teens, and - like many - it didn't take long for her to get into the hard ones."I would say probably fully blown heroin by the time I was 19," she said.She has since turned her life...