The New Jersey man accused of killing three people when he slammed his car into a Passaic County gas station while high on drugs will claim his client did not know the heroin he used prior to driving was laced with fentanyl, a powerful...
The highly-potent synthetic opioid fentanyl is garnering bipartisan attention from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who are now, together, spearheading a push for legislation targeting communist China.In recent years, fentanyl has been the fuel behind a vicious spike in opioid overdose...
Premature deaths from suicide, alcohol and drug overdose have reached an all-time high, and U.S. states are losing ground on key measures related to life expectancy, according to a report by the Commonwealth Fund, a healthcare advocacy group. The report offers a state “scorecard” based on...
CLOSE Nurses and the youngest victims of the opioid crisis they care for in the Neonatal Intensive Care unit in Marquette, Mich. Romain Blanquart, Detroit Free PressThe number of opioid prescriptions filled in Michigan declined again last year as the...
The Sussex County SUV driver accused of being high on drugs in a deadly crash that killed three people at a Wayne gas station was unaware that he had taken fentanyl, according to his attorney.A father, his teen son and a station attendant all died...
PORTLAND, Maine ― A Massachusetts man admitted in federal court last week to dealing fentanyl in Maine two years ago, including to a St. George man who then died of an overdose from the drug. Camerson Soto, 26, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, entered guilty pleas on two...
CLOSE See what fentanyl is and how it's been tainting other drugs, causing overdose and death in unprecedented numbers. Terry DeMio, tdemio@enquirer.comBooneville is a picturesque small city near the Mississippi and Tennessee state line with a population of...
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BOONEVILLE, Miss (WTVA) -- The Booneville Police Department released a statement staing that the five overdose victims all used drugs containing fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl. Fentanyl is said to be 80 percent stronger than morphine and is used to tranquilize animals. MGN Online In a statement to...
Speech to Text for Two dead three hospitalized following overdoses in Booneville Below is the closed-captioning text associated with this video. Since this uses automated speech to text spelling and grammar may not be accurate. from the booneville police department this afternoon following the deaths of...