ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – In less than a month, 30 people have overdosed in Elizabeth City. Six of those overdoses were fatal. Emergency Medical Service officials said the drug epidemic across the area has reached new levels. “I believe we’re on track to surpass all [of...
Alec Wong was just 21 when he was charged with trafficking fentanyl in a downtown Vancouver dial-a-dope operation in 2017. Dylan Friesen was 36 when he was arrested in Maple Ridge in 2017 and also charged with selling fentanyl at the street level. Both...
Just about anything can happen in Bushwick’s House of Yes, but this was a new one. With a seven-foot-tall polar bear (stuffed) looming a few feet away, the commissioner of the city’s Health Department (not stuffed) hit the anything-goes nightspot to launch a campaign warning Brooklyn...
Fentanyl pills that were seized by law enforcement, Photo supplied/ALERT A new report released Thursday says nearly one-third of accidental fentanyl-related poisoning deaths in the province during the first quarter of 2019 occurred in Edmonton.The province’s lastest opioid surveillance report said 36 people in Edmonton have died...
Waterville police said they were following up on a dog bite case Wednesday afternoon when they found more than three pounds of drugs in the dog owner's apartment.An officer said when he stopped by to speak to Ryan Schall, 27, he saw a powdered substance...
A recent scientific study evaluating the effectiveness of a new vaccine targeting fentanyl addiction has shown promising results. The study was published in the journal Neuropharmacology, and involved the use of a fentanyl antigen (a molecule that causes the production of specific antibodies) combined with...
Bruce Boise said "every day was different" even "exciting" to him as a pharmaceutical salesman at Cephalon. But that all changed in 2000 when he says he was ordered by his boss to promote drugs "off-label" to...
Ecstasy and cocaine are just some of the party drugs you might find at a music festival. But Vancouver Island's chief medical officer is warning that the use of fentanyl and other opioids could intrude on this summer's festival scene.Dr. Richard Stanwick says "the potential for harm is probably greater"...
WATERVILLE, Maine (WABI) - Waterville Police were following up on a dog bite case Wednesday afternoon when, they say, they found a lot of drugs in the dog owner's apartment. An officer says when he stopped by to speak to 27-year-old Ryan Schall he saw a...
COLUMBUS (WBNS) – A Franklin County Magistrate has denied a request by attorneys for Dr. William Husel and Mount Carmel Health System to put several wrongful death lawsuits on hold while Husel’s criminal case is still pending.Husel faces 25 murder charges, accused of ordering excessive...