COPYRIGHT 2019 YAKTRINEWS.COM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION. Reymond Linder, 22, appeared Wednesday in Yakima County Superior Court on suspicion of controlled substance homicide and possession of...
The opioid crisis continues to have a startling impact on the city of Kamloops, as 12 people have died of an illicit overdose across the first three months of 2019. According to the latest statistics from the B.C. Coroner's Services, out of overdose...
BOSTON — Opioid-related overdose deaths continue to decline in Massachusetts, but in Worcester, they have jumped - increasing 21% from 80 in 2017 to 97 in 2018, according to newly-released figures from the state Department of Public Health.Statewide, the numbers dropped an estimated 4% between...
Interior Health is offering take-home drug checking kits in a new collaborative research project, with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), aiming to reduce the risk of fentanyl overdoses. “We know using...
A Kitchener mother prepares to mark the second anniversary of her teenage son’s death from an accidental opioid overdose. Zion Williams-Farrell was 14 when he took a pill that he thought was Xanax....
Essex County OPP has issued a reminder of the dangers of ingesting fentanyl in any way, even in very small quantities which can cause serious health issues including death. The warning comes after several overdoses in the county. Police say so far this year a 21-year-old Essex...
Quantities of fentanyl and carfentanil seized by Perth County OPP in February. Courtesy of Ontario Provincial Police / Windsor Star You may know that fentanyl is dangerous, but Essex County OPP are emphasizing that fact with details about recent local overdose incidents involving the drug.According to police,...
Staff report Wednesday May 15, 2019 at 2:20 PM A Davidson County man was charged with second degree murder Tuesday after Lexington police say he sold heroin laced with fentanyl to a man who later overdosed and died.Daniel Allen English, 27, of 1520 Hoover Road, was charged with second degree murder by distributing...
Six people died of illicit drug overdoses in the first three months of 2019 in Chilliwack, a number that used to mark an entire year of deaths prior to the current opioid crisis in B.C. And while it...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Wednesday that it will stop accepting gifts from members of the Sackler family who own the company making the OxyContin prescription painkillers implicated in the US opioids crisis. The museum on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, one...