Overdose

BOSTON (Reuters) - The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc on Thursday became the highest-ranking drugmaker executive convicted in a case tied to the U.S. opioid crisis, when he and four colleagues were found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive painkiller, helping drive the...

Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor leaves federal court in Boston on Jan. 30. (Photo: Steven Senne, AP)BOSTON — The billionaire founder of the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics and four other top executives were found guilty on Thursday of racketeering in a scheme that involved giving bribes and kickbacks to physicians to...

Lewiston police officer Nick Meserve, center, and other police officers cross Ash Street in Lewiston as they walk down Howe Street searching for a man that shot at a vehicle at the corner of Sabattus Street and College Streets in 2016.   Sun Journal file photo...

Lewiston Police say an officer who died earlier this year passed away from an accidental fentanyl overdose.In a media release on the department's Facebook page, Chief Brian O'Malley announced that Officer Nicholas Meserve died as a result of acute fentanyl intoxication and that it was...

By GateHouse Florida Content Team Thursday May 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM May 2, 2019 at 10:21 AM After a monthslong, multi-agency drug investigation, police in Brevard County arrested 100 people connected to a criminal organization responsible for distributing heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine.“The investigation was aimed at disrupting the sources of dangerous opiate drugs that are critically impacting our...

SARNIA – A Sarnia drug dealer who sold cocaine laced with deadly fentanyl to an unsuspecting buyer pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal negligence causing death.Karen Ebel-Savage, 59, also pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in the 38-year-old man’s death in August 2017.The man, identified in court...