DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - Investigators believe 28-year-old Antoin Thornton sold fentanyl-laced heroin to a 22-year-old man who overdosed March 18 at an apartment complex on Ashford Dunwoody Road. That crime left Thornton in the DeKalb County Jail without bond...
Multiple inmates from the South Placer Jail in Roseville were taken to area hospitals Monday after exposure to an unknown substance, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said. The Sheriff’s Office said that although the substance is currently unknown, officials believe it may be fentanyl. Fentanyl...
Valerie DeCaro-Garcia spent some of her Mother’s Day trying to bring attention to a law rarely used in Cook County. When her brother, Anthony DeCaro, died of fentanyl toxicity in 2016, she thought his death would be investigated as a homicide. After all, the Illinois Drug Induced...
Washington County had the state's second highest increase in opioid-related deaths from 2017...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A West Virginia University researcher is seeking funding to study...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- An Indianapolis-based non-profit group hopes to raise enough money to open a new recovery home for women struggling with opioid use and addiction. Organizers with Overdose Lifeline say the residential...
Dunwoody Police have arrested and charged an alleged drug dealer with felony murder in the death of a 22-year-old man who police say overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl earlier this year at an apartment complex across from City Hall. It is the first known prosecution...
OTTAWA — In the small town of Arnprior, nestled into the Ottawa Valley, at least five suspected opioid overdoses in the span of week prompted police to issue a public warning.Access to extremely dangerous opioids is not limited to larger cities, said the Renfrew detachment...
The opioid epidemic is ravaging American communities. Fentanyl and other opioids are killing 50,000 Americans every year, making this public health epidemic more lethal than car crashes and HIV at their peaks. The spike in overdose deaths is so severe that for the first time...
CANANDAIGUA — During his time as an Ontario County deputy, coroner and licensed...