CLOSE See what fentanyl is and how it's been tainting other drugs, causing overdose and death in unprecedented numbers. Terry DeMio, tdemio@enquirer.comAn unusual number of fatal overdoses, combined with a dozen people hospitalized for possible overdose in a 24-hour...
Steve Cody doesn't want to see it happen to another family. His son Nick was 17 in 2013 when he passed away after taking the popular party drug MDMA, a pill later determined to be laced with fentanyl. This weekend's...
One year ago, Republicans and Democrats put partisan labels aside to confront a killer claiming more than 130 lives a day in the United States: the opioid crisis. The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act...
Listen Story audio 4min 17sec In emotional testimony, the surviving relatives of Spencer Johnson and Nicholas Petrick described their loss as a result of opioid overdoses, as a convicted drug dealer faced sentencing in a Hennepin County courtroom Friday. Both men died...
An Oregon man was charged Friday with first-degree reckless homicide after police said...
While the death of a child from a drug overdose is shockingly tragic, it is not as rare as you may think. Experts say the number of children overdosing on drugs is increasing, right along with the opioid crisis. On April 13, Las Vegas police...
BALTIMORE – U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Narada Walls, age 38, of Salisbury, Maryland, today to 12 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess and to distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogues. Fentanyl analogues are...
FROM STAFF REPORTS Published 4:34 p.m. ET June 21, 2019 CLOSE While there's no way to 100 percent deter car break-ins, there are some...
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Routine maintenance on a South Carolina convenience store's ice cream freezer reportedly turned up a hidden stash of what authorities believe is the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl.(Above: $1M in fentanyl, heroin, cocaine seized in sweep)Authorities say a maintenance worker found aluminum...
Grant County Sheriff Tom Jones reported Friday that among the many drugs seized by Deputies and agents from multiple law enforcement groups were significant amounts of Fentanyl.Fentanyl produces morphine-like reactions, but is 80-100 times more powerful. That's why it's often 'misused' and causes a lot...