In case it was too much, Hogan was ready with a vial of naloxone, the overdose-reversal drug.Grim drug scenes like this play out every day on the streets surrounding San Francisco’s Civic Center—an area that spans the hard-luck sidewalks of the Tenderloin district and the...
Just four days after deputies in Mendocino County were trained in April to carry the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, or Narcan, they were dispatched to a scene where two men had reportedly overdosed on a cocktail of drugs. Both were administered multiple doses of...
When Barberton paramedics noticed a sudden spike in opioid overdoses on Wednesday, the city moved quickly.Hours after the first of what a fire department spokesman called a “rash” of cases, Barberton sent a cellphone alert to residents enrolled in its notification system.The notification warned that...
PREVIOUS COVERAGE The U.S. Postal Service is failing to deliver on the STOP Act to prevent the illegal flow of dangerous drugs like fentanyl through the mail. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts woman will become the first known person to win approval from the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to receive ongoing methadone treatment for her heroin addiction while she serves a sentence in federal prison. The decision by the...
Pittsburgh, PA – A Pennsylvania mother accused of putting a fatal dose of fentanyl in her toddler’s sippy cup showed no emotion as she was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday. Seventeen-month-old Charlette Napper-Talley died on April 5, 2018, after she consumed what her mother called...
I’m a sucker for a good court case. I used to cover a lot of them in my Richmond days. Over the years, I heard and wrote stories about drug dealers, people smugglers, kidnappers, killers and many other bad people. Even had to...
Though a wealth of information has been made public about the relatively low risk presented by accidental exposure to the synthetic opioid, fentanyl, lawmakers, law enforcement and media outlets continue to issue warnings and even propose legislation to provide safeguards to prevent overdose. A recent article in Reason cited...
Fentanyl is almost unthinkably strong. The synthetic opioid is 50 times more potent than heroin and has contributed to a wave of fatal overdoses in LA County. But the risks are especially high in the LGBTQ community. One reason: it’s turning up as a hidden...