UPDATE - 4:30 p.m. - Jurors will resume deliberations Wednesday morning.SPRINGFIELD — Hampden Superior Court jurors began deliberations at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the manslaughter case against two Westfield residents in connection with the overdose death...
LOS ANGELES – Members of a federal task force have arrested an attorney on narcotics distribution charges that allege she illegally sold oxycodone pills after offering drugs for sale on Craigslist. Jackie Ferrari, 36, a resident of Downey, who investigators believe recently started a new job...
An attorney from Downey has been charged with selling painkillers that she advertised on Craigslist, federal authorities said Tuesday. Jackie Ferrari, 36, was arrested Friday following a five-month investigation that was triggered by the fatal overdose of a 22-year-old woman she allegedly sold drugs to, authorities...
Oxycodone pain pills are on display on March 23, 2016 in Norwich, Conn. (Credit: John Moore/Getty Images) Oxycodone pain pills are on display on March 23, 2016 in Norwich, Conn. (Credit: John Moore/Getty Images) A Los Angeles area attorney...
A Waukegan man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to allegations he sold a combination of heroin and fentanyl to a Mundelein man who later died from an overdose. Darryl Henderson, 28, faces up to 30 years in prison if found guilty of a drug-induced homicide charge stemming...
Doctors who receive direct payments from opioid manufacturers tend to prescribe more opioids than doctors who receive no such payments, new research shows. The report, published in the journal Addiction, found that the association between payments and prescribing is strongest for hydrocodone and oxycodone, the most...
COLUMBUS – Attorneys representing several families of patients who are believed to have died after receiving excessive doses of fentanyl have identified the youngest patient to date – a 37-year-old man.Attorney Craig Tuttle says 37-year old James Nickolas Timmons was brought into Mount Carmel West...
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Preliminary numbers from the Department of Health and Social Services show Alaska gained ground in the fight against opioids between 2017 and 2018. The welcomed numbers show what state officials are calling significant decreases in deaths from fentanyl and opioid-related overdoses -- but...
PureRadiancePhoto / Shutterstock.com As Purdue Pharmaceutical’s OxyContin has become the poster child for opioid addiction, so too has another drug become synonymous with efforts to save people who have overdosed on those drugs – Narcan, developed by California-based Opiant Pharmaceuticals. Narcan is widely provided to first responders...
As the end drew near, Carey Dean Moore’s face turned red, and then purple. He breathed heavily, according to the witnesses who were there to see it, and coughed. Roughly 20 minutes later, he died.In his final weeks, the two-time killer had given up efforts...