CLOSE U.S. Rep. Tom Reed was joined by local law enforcement officials to announce he will reintroduce legislation in Congress to address an opioid epidemic. Jeff Murray / Staff videoThe 16th and final defendant in a major Elmira-based opioid ring...
Heather Yakin Times Herald-Record @HeatherYakin845 As we’ve been following the opioid epidemic, another ominous trend has emerged: a rising tide of deaths from cocaine and stimulant overdose. These deaths, according to last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and...
MARYLAND Ex-bishop who hit bicyclist is released A former Episcopal bishop who fatally struck a bicyclist while drunk and texting behind the wheel more than four years ago has been released from a Maryland lockup. Heather Cook was the second-highest-ranking Episcopal leader in the...
A fentanyl check in progress. One red line on top is a positive result for the presence of fentanyl or one of its analogs. Two red lines is a negative result. Handout Vancouver Coastal Health and B.C. Centre for Disease Control are collaborating on a pilot project...
Both men and women across North America are dying from fentanyl – a synthetic opioid roughly 50 to 100 times more toxic than morphine that’s entered the drug supply. But when the mortality data has been crunched, the overwhelming number of victims are men, most in the...
SAN DIEGO, May 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ: ADMP) announced today conditional acceptance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the proposed brand name for the company’s high dose naloxone product candidate. The notification to the company from...
NEW LENOX, IL — In 2018, Will County had 82 heroin deaths. During the first five months of 2019, there have been 32 heroin/fentanyl deaths across the county. Statistics continue to show an increase in opioid-related deaths across the state and country. In 2018, New...
It can happen to you. That is what representatives from Barrhead’s emergency services told a group of Grade 9 students from Barrhead and Neerlandia after staging a mock medical emergency at the splash park on May 9 as part of the Barrhead CARES Coalition’s PARTY Program. As...
MORGANTOWN — Researchers at West Virginia University have studied the overwhelming, detrimental effects of...