BOSTON (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc is expected on Wednesday to plead guilty to participating in a scheme to pay doctors bribes in exchange for prescribing an addictive opioid medication. FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made...
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump held court front and center on Tuesday night as he delivered remarks from the Oval Office in the hopes of convincing the American public and skeptical lawmakers that there is a crisis at the southern border....
Antoun Moore was made eligible for parole at his sentencing for dealing the deadly synthetic opioid. The Erie County District Attorney's Office is pushing for a harsher sentence for a convicted fentanyl dealer who was made eligible for parole at his sentencing last week.The defendant, 20-year-old...
By Olivia Neeley olivia@wilsontimes.com | 252-265-7879 State officials say North Carolina saw an increase in unintentional opioid-related overdose deaths in 2017 compared to the previous year. And it was due to the increase of potent illicit drugs including heroin and fentanyl. There were 1,884 unintentional opioid-related overdose...
WASHINGTON (AP) President Trump delivered his first prime-time address from the Oval Office Tuesday night, reiterating that there is a “crisis” at the southern border but offering no new policy or approach. He did not declare a national emergency, as he has been considering. The partial government...
Trump: "The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico."The President has made this false claim before. Trump long ago abandoned his 2016 campaign promise that Mexico would pay to build a wall. Instead, he...
President Donald Trump was holding court front and center Tuesday night as he delivered remarks from the Oval Office in the hope of convincing the American public and skeptical lawmakers that there is a crisis at the southern border. His goal: to secure billions of dollars...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Federal prosecutors filed drug-trafficking charges Tuesday against four defendants arrested following a sting operation in which agents acquired more than 10,000 fentanyl pills smuggled through San Diego-area ports of entry.According to a criminal complaint, undercover agents negotiated in December to buy...
Data source: Virginia Department of Health. (Click for larger image.) Everyone seems to agree that Virginia, like the rest of the nation, is in the grips of an epidemic of opioid overdoses. Virginia Department of Health (VDH) data show that the number of overdose deaths attributable...