A B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld the sentence of a drug dealer caught with fentanyl-laced heroin.The court rejected Joseph Ryan Lloyd’s contention that a trial judge erred in concluding that fentanyl was an aggravating factor.Lloyd was sentenced to six years in jail, but he...
For anyone who does not already realize that fentanyl ranks among the deadliest and most devious drugs out there, the Department of Homeland Security would like to underscore the point. Task & Purpose snagged an internal memo about the department looking toward deeming the synthetic opioid...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--If heroin is coffee, fentanyl is espresso. Just as a miniscule cup of espresso can hype you up more than a whole mug of coffee, a single exposure to fentanyl can get a user vastly higher than injecting the same volume of heroin. In...
A 46-year-old Woodstock man was sentenced to prison Monday after pleading guilty to delivering the dose of heroin that police said killed a McHenry man.Christopher Birong accepted an offer from the McHenry County State's Attorney's Office Monday and pleaded guilty to drug-induced homicide in connection...
CLOSE Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wochit, Elissa Robinson/WochitDETROIT – The nation's opioid crisis began with prescription...
Oneida County Sheriff Robert M. Maciol issued a warning Friday afternoon that the deadly opioid fentanyl was found laced into a quantity of marijuana in Sullivan County. Maciol said fentanyl is believed to be linked to a majority of overdose deaths around the country in the...
The opioid crisis has become increasingly worse over the last decade and is estimated to cost the U.S. government nearly $38 billion in lost tax revenue due to employment loss.Opiant Pharmaceuticals (OPNT), the company behind the overdose reversal drug Narcan, is in the process of developing nasal nalmefene, a drug...
Guelph police are warning residents after four suspected fentanyl overdoses were reported over the weekend.Police said all four appear to be a result of blue or purple fentanyl, which typically comes with a higher potency.READ MORE: Guelph’s overdose prevention clinic approved...
He arranged for his mother to meet him in the country’s capital of Bogota. He boarded a commercial flight on July...