The Berrien County Health Department wants everyone to know there are resources available in the community for those who may be struggling with a drug addiction. News came last week from the Berrien County Prosecutor’s Office that overdose deaths have gone up recently, possibly because...
Nicole Norwood grew up as a fairly average youth in the Santa Clarita Valley, she said. She occasionally drank beer and smoked a bit of pot. But her life began spiraling into the abyss at 18, when she was prescribed opioids as painkillers after emerging from...
Fentanyl-related deaths reported in Spartanburg County have more than doubled in two years.The potent opioid killed more than twice as many people in 2018 than in 2016, and about 65-percent more people than in 2017, according to the Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office’s annual report.The report,...
MORGANTOWN — Even as deaths relating prescription opioids are starting to decline, deaths related...
OxyContin began being prescribed widely for chronic pain, often to laborers who were hurt on the job, or to athletes for their injuries. Sometimes these athletes were high schoolers. Many became addicted to the painkiller and moved on to heroin and later, fentanyl. The death totals...
Local law enforcement and drug prevention and treatment agency officials are on alert with word of an increase in the appearance of a synthetic narcotic even more potent than deadly fentanyl. The Federal Drug Administration says “carfentanil”, which is surfacing around the country, is 100-times more...
A makeshift memorial in Miami for Kyle Dodds, who died of an overdose of heroin and fentanyl in 2016. A $353 million government effort aims to cut opioid deaths by 40 percent in three years. (Scott McIntyre/For The Washington Post) ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control, two-thirds of the nation's drug deaths involved opioids. The percentage is much lower in Texas, but rising. The crisis is serious enough that University of North Texas recently began offering a medication that could save lives.It...
(WBNG) — A recent rise in overdose deaths in several states throughout the nation related to the synthetic opioid carfentanil has led Southern Tier health officials to be on alert for the drug. According to the Federal Drug Administration, carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl which...
Soeby was initially charged in Grand Forks County District Court along with her husband, 40-year-old Joshua David Soeby, and her sister, 41-year-old Kelly Jo Nelsrud. The charges were elevated into federal court in May.Grand Forks County court documents said investigators were called to 5915 Wydown...