Earlier this month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), reported that from 2015-2016 deaths from cocaine and psychostimulants (such as methamphetamine, Ritalin, dextroamphetamine) increased 52.4 percent and 33.3 percent respectively. In 2017, the CDC reported...
Research study evaluates safety of take-home drug checking kits Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), along with Interior Health, are collaborating on a new research project providing people who use substances with take-home drug checking kits to determine if...
Joe DiFazio The Patriot Ledger jldifazio Tuesday May 21, 2019 at 9:20 AM DEDHAM — A Norfolk County Grand Jury has indicted a Weymouth woman accused of dealing fentanyl.Melissa A. Edwards, 28, was indicted on trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl, distribution of fentanyl and two counts of possession of...
P.E.I. hospitals are now testing for fentanyl when patients come into an emergency department with an overdose.Doing that testing on-site means faster results and enables public health officials to see quickly if there's a spike in overdoses from fentanyl and alert the public of the risk.Fentanyl is...
CINCINNATI — Hamilton County saw a spike on overdoses over the weekend, prompting the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition to issue an alert. Following a documented spike in overdose deaths in Columbus, Hamilton County agencies began looking into numbers within Cincinnati, revealing the spike was not...
ALTON — A local man who allegedly helped a friend to buy fentanyl...
LEBANON — Authorities treated the January death of an East Corinth woman at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as a possible homicide after hospital employees raised concerns that family members had tampered with the woman’s pain medication, according to Lebanon Police Department reports.One nurse went as far...
Police said Jose R. Reyes sold heroin and fentanyl to a Spring Township man. ...
DSC_2Mega_PixFor the last 60 years the city of Baltimore has struggled with heroin addiction and this has led to increased crime and high levels of desperation. This is the same story within the city’s neighborhoods. However, things have changed in the city as users now...
An Elgin man is held on $500,000 bail after he was charged with providing a fatal dose of fentanyl-laced heroin to 25-year-old Trevor Brubaker, who was found in his St. Charles Township house April 4. Jose R. Charles, 25, of the 600 block of Dixon Avenue,...