Welcome to InSight Crime’s Criminal GameChangers 2018, where we highlight the most important trends in organized crime in the Americas over the course of the year. From a rise in illicit drug availability and resurgence of monolithic...
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. Buzz60More people died nationwide of drug overdoses...
New test strips that allow drug users to determine whether street drugs are laced with fentanyl are being met with both praise and skepticism. >> Read more trending news Fentanyl is...
CNN’s latest reports regarding the fight against opioid crisis are pretty interesting. It seems that there’s a new controversial tool that emerged in the battle against overdose-related deaths. It is a strip that lets people who are using street drugs such as heroin and cocaine...
London police have made the largest seizure of the hyper-potent opioid fentanyl in city history, taking more than $295,000 of the oft-deadly drug off the streets.Members of the police guns and drugs section seized powdered fentanyl along with two naloxone kits – an overdose antidote...
Terrorists could potentially use fentanyl – a synthetic opioid mainly produced in China that is the primary source of the fatal overdose epidemic in the United States – as a “weapon of mass destruction,” Bloomberg News recently reported, citing experts and echoing other articles. On December...
Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pa. - The holidays are about spending time with family and loved ones, but for some, it's a reminder of who they've lost to addiction.Marianne Sinisi lost her son, Shawn,...
Lisman - For the fourth consecutive year, drug overdose deaths have reached a new record high in Luzerne County. The county had 156 overdose deaths in 2018, with the potential for an additional nine awaiting toxicology analysis, the coroner’s office said. In comparison, there were 155 overdose...
Barely a week after completing training to recognize opioid overdose symptoms and how to administer a lifesaving antidote, Emeryville Police Officers were put to the test. Emeryville Police Department vehicles had just recently been equipped with doses of Naloxone, a drug proven to counteract the symptoms...