Overdose

(Picture: iStockphoto)We hope you know this already, but drugs can be dangerous – some more than others. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has looked at the drug-related deaths that happened between 2011 and 2016, the most recent year data is available, to rank...

By The Canadian PressFri., Dec. 14, 2018DELTA, B.C.—Parents in Delta, B.C., have received an urgent notice after a student’s drugs tested positive for fentanyl.The joint message from the Delta School District and police department says the pills were bought illicitly and labelled as Xanax, although...

It was a typical, single-family house with a landscaped yard and Christmas decorations in a quiet neighborhood in eastern Pennsylvania. But this week investigators, acting on a tip, uncovered a secret in the basement — a drug operation worth an estimated $8 million a week.On...