PEORIA — Warm handoff programs "certainly cover a big gap in care," said Dr. Kirk Moberg, executive medical director of the Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery in Peoria, a UnityPoint Health affiliate.Such programs, where hospitals start giving medicine to those misusing opioids and connect them...
WARREN — Drug overdose rates that went down in 2018 are back on the rise in 2019, and Trumbull County is on track to match record accidental overdose deaths in 2017, according to the executive director of the Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board....
With the rise of terrorist attacks in foreign nations, the safety of public spaces has never been the same. Too often we hear about school shootings, random vehicles ploughing through crowds, and bombs going off in the midst of public events, like what was seen...
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GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — In just two weeks, at least 17 people have died in Minnesota due to drug overdoses, and...
Tom Parr, Special to The Gleaner Published 7:00 p.m. CT June 8, 2019 CLOSENarcotic overdoses have been dramatically increasing and deaths from opioid narcotics more than tripled...
One overdose could be an accident. 25 by the same doctor probably isn’t.This week, a critical care doctor in Ohio Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System named William Husel was charged with murder in the overdose deaths of 25 patients. Allegedly, he “purposely caused the death”...
Frank Fagone sentenced to 7-9 years in prison. BARNSTABLE — A 35-year-old Buzzards Bay man was sentenced to seven to nine years in prison Friday after pleading guilty in Barnstable Superior Court in two drug trafficking cases, one of which stemmed from his arrest while out...
Police praised an elementary school pupil for turning in his parents for drug possession after he delivered a suspect package to school last week. The boy told his elementary school teacher in Kennewick, Washington, that he was afraid to return home, worried about possible consequences, KEPR...
Jon Devereaux was drunk when he crashed his friend’s SUV in West St. Paul during a 2013 alcohol-fueled joyride that took the life of a passenger. Now he is linked to the mass South St. Paul overdose case from this past weekend. Police found five men —...