CLOSE Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is quickly becoming the most dangerous drug in America. Here are the basics. Brett Kelman, The TennesseanA spike in recent fatal overdoses could be tied to fentanyl-laced drugs in Davidson County, public safety officials have warnedSince...
Correctional Service Canada says officials at Warkworth Institution seized a package of drugs, including carfentanil and fentanyl, late last month.Officials say that around 10:30 p.m. on May 26, staff at the medium-security federal institution, located 60 kilometres south of Peterborough, seized...
Nearly two dozen drug traffickers with ties to El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel allegedly smuggled heroin and fentanyl from Mexico to the Bronx — drugs that ended up being sold on the streets in $10 packets, authorities said Wednesday. A 20-month multi-agency investigation recovered a more than...
Note to readers: This story contains interactive charts. Please mouse over the charts to see the raw data numbers. While governments warn of the threat of drugs contaminated with fentanyl, the harsh fact is that the synthetic opioid is increasingly the drug of...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WBNS) – A grand jury has indicted Dr. William Husel on charges stemming from the deaths of 25 patients in an overdose scandal that has rocked the Mount Carmel Health System and the families of nearly three dozen patients.Both the Franklin County Prosecutor’s...
(Reuters) - An Ohio doctor was charged with 25 counts of murder for administering high and sometimes fatal doses of opioid painkillers to dozens of very sick patients, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The doctor, William Husel, turned himself in to Columbus police following a six-month...
A prosecutor said a Pittsburgh mother killed her baby by placing fentanyl in the child’s sippy cup so she could “relax and smoke marijuana,” it was reported. A Pennsylvania jury on June 4 cleared Jhenea Pratt, 23, of first-degree murder and third-degree murder, reported the Pittsburgh...
.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico State Police and the FBI arrested an unlikely pair early Tuesday in Albuquerque – a 17-year-old juvenile and a 76-year-old man – after...
HARTFORD, Conn. — Hartford police said Tuesday that five people died from overdoses...
The opioid crisis came to a head in Hartford this week, as police responded...