Fentanyl pills are shown in an undated police handout photo. In a public warning about the potentially lethal consequences of illegal drugs, the Regina Police Service says it is “particularly urgent in the case of opioids, including fentanyl.”In a news release sent Thursday, police say Regina...
Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics has agreed to pay a $225 million settlement to resolve the federal government's criminal and civil investigations into the company's illegal marketing of a powerful but highly-addictive painkiller, prosecutors said Wednesday. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay...
CLOSE Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wochit, Elissa Robinson/WochitA Vestal man was jailed after a drug raid...
In one of the largest ever murder cases against a health care professional, a former doctor in Ohio is accused in the overdose killings of more than two dozen patients. William Husel pleaded not guilty on Wednesday...
William Husel -- who used to work at Mount Carmel Health System -- pleaded not guilty and is being held on a $20,000 recognizance bond and a $1 million surety or appearance bond according to CNN affiliate WBNS. He is also required to surrender his...
An Ohio doctor was charged with murder Wednesday in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who, authorities say, were killed with deliberate overdoses of painkillers, many of them administered by other medical workers on his orders.In one of the biggest cases of its kind ever...
Insys Therapeutics Inc. agreed to pay $225 million and an operating unit will plead guilty to fraud to settle probes into their payment of kickbacks to induce doctors to prescribe highly addictive opioids, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday. Prosecutors said Insys used kickbacks and...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Investigators in the Bronx scored a major victory against drug traffickers, dismantling an operation stretching from Mexico to the northeast. The packages were already stamped “paid.” The deadly drugs were on their way to be delivered when investigators made a lifesaving interception. “Today’s fentanyl...
MORE FROM NEWS 2: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) - A warning tonight from law enforcement and health officials after 21 people around Middle Tennessee have died of fatal overdoses from what could be a bad batch...
CLOSEFormer critical care doctor William Husel, center, pleads not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of 25 hospital patients while appearing with defense attorney Richard Blake, right, in Franklin County Court on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio. Husel denies allegations that he...