Ontario Provincial Police File photo There have been at least five suspected overdoses in the Arnprior area in the past week with the OPP warning Friday that purple heroin known locally as “purp” typically contains fentanyl or even more powerful carfentanyl.The warning comes from the Renfrew detachment...
On Thursday, a Boston jury found that John Kapoor, founder of pharmaceutical company Insys, as well as four high-ranking executives at the company guilty of racketeering on the grounds that they had conspired to boost sales of one of its fentanyl-based medications. After deliberating for 15 hours,...
MEDFORD (CBS)– Mike Overstreet of Medford has a new outlook on life after kicking an addiction that started with pain medication in high school. “I had an injury from wrestling,” he told WBZ-TV. “A bad back and hip and it got worse from there.” Buprenorphine, prescribed by...
(WBRE/WYOU-TV) It is being called one of the biggest drug busts in the history of Luzerne County a one million dollar fentanyl distribution ring is now history. The I-Team’s Andy Mehalshick has the...
PLATTSBURGH — Dangerous drugs arrive in the region "in a constant stream," says...
CLOSE Alexis Pleus of Truth Pharm demonstrates how to administer Narcan to save a person from dying of a heroin, opioid overdose Kate Collins / Staff videoOne hundred and seventeen individual packages of Fentanyl and 35 packages of crack cocaine,...
Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy is sounding the alarm after a number of overdoses in the city. According to a post on its Twitter account, Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy (WGDS) says there has been a spike in the number...
Executives at a major opioid company, Insys Therapeutics, were found guilty by a federal jury on Thursday for, among other misdeeds, bribing doctors to prescribe their fentanyl-based painkiller — in another sign that the federal government and the public are increasingly ready to...
The founder and former CEO of drug company Insys Therapeutics just became the first Big Pharma exec to be convicted for his role in pushing opioids on patients, a crime that resulted in over 900 overdose deaths. Subsys, a fentanyl-based spray, was approved for...
North Bay police have charged three people in unrelated fentanyl-related deaths in 2018.Jordan Drew, 25, is charged with one count of trafficking alprazolam and one count of trafficking fentanyl in the death of a 24-year-old man in June.Lisa Cormier, 41, and Stephanie Slack, 33, both...