[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]In 2017, the Manhattan district attorney’s office received a tip: Unusually large amounts of cash were being withdrawn from A.T.M.s throughout the city, including a series of transactions at a...
The Bartholomew County Coroner’s office investigated 17 overdose deaths related to the opioid crisis in 2018, compared to 30 reported the year before. There have only been three confirmed overdose fatalities as of April 10, Bartholomew County Coroner...
CHARLESTON - An increasing number of West Virginia's drug-related deaths have involved fentanyl,...
Officials in San Diego County have issued an alert after three people have suffered documented fatal overdosed from a new form of the drug fentanyl know as carfentanil. It would only take 2 mg of the drug...
Purple fentanyl (Supplied photo) Southwestern Public Health has issued an alert about purple fentanyl after some drug users reported a surge in overdoses.The alert by the health unit was to other health organizations in St. Thomas and Elgin County who come into contact with people who...
Acting Sgt. Brett Flansburg of the Vermont State Police. VSP photoVermont State Police say the cause of a trooper’s collapse in March remains unknown after laboratory and medical testing, however the initial explanation that he overdosed from contact with synthetic opioids appears unfounded.State police said...
Police agencies in the region warned the public Tuesday about a spate of...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- New research from West Virginia University shows the strong grip drug addiction has in West Virginia. A team from WVU studied trends in drug-related deaths between 2005 and 2017 in West Virginia. Their research showed that deaths from fentanyl are on...