TRENTON — Eight people die of a drug overdose in New Jersey every single day. For the first time in our state’s history, drug overdose deaths within a calendar year topped 3,000. Figures from the New Jersey Attorney General’s office put the number at 3,163...
D.C. police and federal officials seized millions of dollars worth of heroin and marijuana from a Northeast D.C. home in what the mayor called the largest-ever seizure of heroin in the region.Authorities seized more than 88 pounds of heroin laced with fentanyl, 40 pounds of...
Kristen Harding, a spokesperson for the Lethbridge Police Service, said two people died in the early morning hours of Sunday and it is believed both people died of an opioid overdose. An injection kit is seen inside the newly opened Fraser Health supervised consumption site...
CLOSE The opioid crisis in the United States continues to take center stage as the National Institute on Drug Abuse says more than 115 people die of an opioid overdose every day. Buzz60Terrill Spann of Keyport is sentenced to...
A DOUBLE murderer hanged himself in his cell on death row after his execution was postponed twice and he told the state to “get to it”. Scott Dozier, 48, was found dead at Ely max security jail in Nevada, after repeatedly telling the authorities he’d rather...
Joe DiFazio The Patriot Ledger jldifazio Monday Jan 7, 2019 at 11:53 AM QUINCY — A Weymouth woman is facing fentanyl trafficking charges after a months long police investigation. Melissa A. Edwards, 28, of 26 Lakehurst Avenue, was charged with trafficking fentanyl in an amount more than 10 grams, distribution of...
In places like San Francisco, where fentanyl is clearly labeled and not disguised as heroin, some people who are addicted to opioids prefer the powerful synthetic. “Fentanyl is stronger, you need less of it, and it’s cheaper. So why wouldn’t I, as somebody with limited...
The health and social benefits of fentanyl testing were confirmed in a recent study. Most participants, on learning that they had tested positive for fentanyl despite not knowing that they had taken the drug, reported that they would subsequently warn other users about fentanyl while also...
1. Talking about resolutions for the new year, this public official in Rowan County said he or she has a single resolution each year. “I have a sticky note in my office, and it just has two words on it. It just says, ‘Do better.’...
