MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — In recent years, more Minnesotans have died from opioid overdoses than from car crashes. The numbers are staggering and the stories all too familiar to the agency on the epidemic’s front lines. The Drug Enforcement Administration is tasked with trying to control the...
Drug overdose deaths in Colorado have fallen for the first time in six years, but experts caution that it doesn’t mean the overdose epidemic is winding down. In 2018, 974 people died of a drug overdose in Colorado, down from the state’s record of 1,012 deaths...
Hartford — As Hartford deals with a major spike in fatal drug overdoses and the possible emergence of fentanyl-laced crack cocaine, officials in eastern Connecticut are keeping a watchful eye.Forty-five people have died by overdose in the capital city so far this year, compared to...
TAMPA — A federal judge has ordered a new trial for a man found guilty in March of selling a batch of fentanyl that caused a man to die of an overdose.Corey Damond Smith, 23, was supposed to be sentenced this month. He faced a...
A COLD-hearted mum showed no emotion after being found guilty of killing her baby by giving her a sippy cup laced with fentanyl. Prosecutors said Jhenea Pratt, 23, gave 17-month-old Charlette Napper-Talley the strong opioid painkiller so she could "relax and smoke marijuana". 5 A pink sippy...
A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made by Insys Therapeutics Inc, is seen in an undated photograph provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama. Handout/Reuters Drug maker Insys Therapeutics Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
The US state of Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson accusing the drug manufacturing giant of being the 'kingpin' of the 'opioid epidemic' in the United States.The state lawyers claim that Johnson & Johnson, along with pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma, which produces prescription...
