Glenolden man arrested for dealing fentanyl-laced cocaine that resulted in fatal overdose | News
Ricky Latimer, 32, of Glenolden, was arrested and charged with dealing fentanyl-laced cocaine...
23 May, 2019
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‘We Didn’t Get Into This Crisis Overnight’: A Look At How Fentanyl Has Thwarted Both The Trump And Obama Administrations
The Trump administration struggles to make headway against the fentanyl-driven opioid epidemic, with public health experts pointing to the need for more resources and an investment that matches the sheer scale of the crisis. President Donald Trump inherited the thorny issue from President Barack Obama...
23 May, 2019
Commentary: China alone can’t solve America’s opioid problem | Other Views
The invention of the hypodermic needle and synthesis of heroin in the 19th...
23 May, 2019
Resident of Mildred Hailey Apartments survived getting shot in the chest to keep selling fentanyl, feds allege
A man who allegedly used the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and their children in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain as his base for selling fentanyl was ordered held without bail pending a detention hearing in US District Court in Boston today. Anthony...
23 May, 2019
Woman pleads not guilty in fatal overdose case | The Bennington Banner
By Tiffany Tan, Bennington Banner BENNINGTON — A local woman has pleaded not guilty to being an accessory in a fatal Bennington drug overdose in January. Rikki Vallee, 35, is charged with being an accessory to a fellow Bennington woman accused of providing Dawn Bossong, 51, with...
23 May, 2019
Yakima man charged with homicide in connection with drug-overdose death | Crime And Courts
YAKIMA, Wash. — Prosecutors filed a controlled-substance homicide charge against a Yakima man...
23 May, 2019
Charges filed against Wausau woman in fentanyl overdose death
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) -- A 31-year-old Wausau woman is expected to be formally charged Thursday with providing drugs to a man resulting his overdose death. Ashley Szarkowitz is expected to be charged with first degree reckless homicide and delivering narcotics. According to court documents Wausau Police responded...
22 May, 2019
5 Fall River residents test positive for fentanyl after believing they used marijuana – News – The Herald News, Fall River, MA
FALL RIVER — Over the past three months, five city residents who reported they did not consume opioids were revived with Naloxone and tested positive for fentanyl after using what they believed was marijuana, according to a city official.The substance those residents consumed was “laced” with...
22 May, 2019
Schuykill County man gets 2 to 4 years for role in Berks woman’s fatal fentanyl overdose
Judge Eleni Dimitriou Geishauser went below the sentencing guidelines when punishing Drew Reed, saying there are inherent inequities in the statute. ...
22 May, 2019
Trump administration struggles to confront the deadliest drug crisis in U.S. history
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio - In a dungeon-like jail in the center of this depressed farming town, 18 women in orange-and-white-striped prison uniforms are crammed into a two-story cellblock. Many of them are withdrawing from fentanyl. The jail, built in 1884 to hold 24, now houses...
22 May, 2019