WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to tout his fight against opioid abuse in remarks in Atlanta on Wednesday, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives. U.S. President Donald Trump attends...
CHICAGO (CBS) — CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov was drawn into a story about Chicago’s drug epidemic when she rushed to help a victim who overdosed right in front of her. It’s a horror people living in a two-block area of East Garfield Park see every day. I went...
A UVic chemist and a social worker are embarking on a project to perfect a test for drug users to check for deadly overdose ingredients like fentanyl. The three-year project led by Dennis Hore, professor of chemistry, and Bruce Wallace, associate professor of social work,...
Share This Article:Fentanyl packages. Photo via Wikimedia CommonsA drug dealer pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Tuesday to selling pills that contained the synthetic opioid fentanyl to a La Jolla man, causing the victim’s overdose death last year.Support Times of San Diego's growthwith a...
Heather Yakin Times Herald-Record @HeatherYakin845 The latest salvo in the ongoing battle against opioids: The Southern District of New York on Tuesday unsealed an indictment charging the CEO of a prescription drug distribution cooperative with narcotics conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the U.S.The indictment...
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) began deploying NARCAN kits, along with...
QUINCY — The day after her son overdosed on a near-fatal mix of heroin and fentanyl, there was a knock on the door. Two plainclothes police officers and two health workers had arrived unannounced, in the dark of the evening, and the distraught woman could...
A woman has been arrested and charged for allegedly selling a man drugs, causing his fatal overdose in Franklin County, police said.Kelly Neville, 31, was charged with dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death.Police said the arrest comes after officers found Jeffrey Shultz, 29,...
The federal government on Tuesday charged a major drug distributor — for the first time — for its role in perpetuating the country’s deadly opioid epidemic. Rochester Drug Cooperative faces charges for conspiring to distribute drugs and defrauding the federal government — after the...
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]For the first time, a major pharmaceutical distributor is facing federal criminal charges over its role in the opioid crisis that has ravaged the United States.The company, Rochester Drug Cooperative,...