North Bay police report a couple of arrests related to Fentanyl deaths in the community. The June 2018 death of a 24-year-old man from North Bay started one investigation. It resulted in the arrest of Jordan Drew, a 25-year-old North Bay man. Drew has...
A Sarnia, Ont., court case in which a drug dealer was charged with manslaughter in the death of a customer who died after taking cocaine laced with fentanyl is forcing questions about the legal and moral implications of such charges. And as the opioid crisis in Canada...
BOSTON — A federal jury on Thursday found the top executives of Insys Therapeutics, a company that sold a fentanyl-based painkiller, guilty of racketeering charges in a rare criminal prosecution that blamed corporate officials for contributing to the nation’s opioid epidemic.The jury, after deliberating for...
A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.John Kapoor, the 76-year-old...
CLOSE Methamphetamine has devastating effects on drug users and can lead to memory loss, "meth mouth," overdose and death. WochitMuch attention has been on the opioid crisis in recent years, but according to local law enforcement, meth continues to claim the...
An Alberta forensic toxicologist says SzymonKalich died soon after taking a lethal dose of fentany more than three years ago.Dr. Craig Chatterton testified Thursday at the manslaughter trial of Jordan Yarmey, who is accused of trafficking in fentanyl and providing fentanyl to Kalich.Chatterton determined there was a lethal concentration of 12.9...
Cocaine deaths have been rising in the U.S., health officials said Thursday in their latest report on the nation’s overdose epidemic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) Death...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In light of the dramatic rise in devastating fentanyl overdose...