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BOISE — All four defendants federally charged with distributing a drug that resulted...
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BOISE — All four defendants federally charged with distributing a drug that resulted...
(Photo: WKRN) Copyright by WKRN - All rights reserved (Photo: WKRN) COFFEE COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) - "Hypervigilant" is how the Coffee County Sheriff's Department says they are responding this year...
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Dennis DeConcini Port of...
OSSIPEE — Jason Nason, the Ossipee man who was recently convicted of being...
Detective Marty Dunn speaks with Isaiah Kim-Martinez about recent overdose deaths in the Chattanooga area. (Image: WTVC)HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. — The number of overdoses is increasing every year in Hamilton County. The spike of 4 deaths in Chattanooga and one in East Ridge in the past...
MANCHESTER, Tenn. (WTVF) — Law enforcement officials working the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival this year have changed their protocol to keep themselves and festival goers protected from a dangerous drug.Coffee County Chief Deputy Frank Watkins said while it is illegal, it is no surprise...
An Akron man, who is accused — along with his wife — of running a lucrative drug operation that peddled fentanyl and carfentanil in Northeast Ohio, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to drug and money laundering charges … again.Donte Gibson first pleaded guilty in...
Relatives of a woman who was killed in a crash in 2016 said Wednesday they were disappointed in the sentence handed down for the man who was convicted of causing the crash after using fentanyl.Jason Nason, 30, of Ossippe, was sentenced Wednesday to 7½ to...
MINFORD, Ohio — Inside an elementary school classroom decorated with colorful floor mats, art supplies and building blocks, a little boy named Riley talked quietly with a teacher about how he had watched his mother take “knockout pills” and had seen his father shoot up...
WHATLEY, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- A small community is in shock this evening and...
Three kilograms of fentanyl is enough to kill everyone on game day at Foxboro and the Garden combined. Yet three kilograms, or about six-and-a-half pounds, is how much fentanyl was confiscated from three Boston drug traffickers arrested a few weeks ago as part of a...
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Delays Expected As Crews Repair Massive Sinkhole On York Road In TimoniumOfficials are asking drivers to take alternate routes to avoid rush hour congestion expected near the site of a massive sinkhole that forced the closure or York Road Wednesday.1 hour agoAmazon Space Heaters Recalled...
CONCORD -- A Massachusetts man will serve nearly four years in federal prison...
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – Recently the Fort St. John Action Team (CAT) released their Public Service Announcement (PSA) ‘Closer to home’ and film, ‘It’s here, The Opioid Crisis in Fort St. John’ in collaboration with Eagle Vision Video Productions Ltd. The ‘Close to Home’ PSA...
Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Market report aims to analyze market opportunities and risks in global Fentanyl Transdermal Patches industry. This report offers a detailed view of market opportunity by end user segments, product segments, sales channels, key countries, and import / export dynamics. It details market...
WHATELY, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- A Franklin County man is facing federal charges after...
Alan Slatas, whose daughter Jillian died from an overdose at the age of 26, launched a nonprofit aimed at promoting and raising money for alternative treatment programs. — Gabrielle ManninoAlan Slatas doesn’t like the word “clean” to describe a person who’s battling addiction. “They’re not...
U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Michigan) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) are co-sponsoring...
by: Ariana Tourangeau, Danielle Eaton Posted: Jun 12, 2019 / 01:28 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 12, 2019 / 02:12 PM EDT KANSAS CITY, Kansas (WWLP) – A South Deerfield man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly sold counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl in Kansas. According to...
Published: 6/12/2019 1:51:18 PM KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday in Kansas charges a Massachusetts man with...
A registered nurse fired for stealing opiates and shooting up fentanyl in a hospital washroom should get another crack at showing why she should get her job back, Divisional Court has ruled.At issue, the court ruled, was whether the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in...
While statewide data showed improvement, Washington County saw an apparent uptick in overdose...
TAMPA —A federal jury has found a 33-year-old Pinellas County man guilty of...
TORONTO — A registered nurse fired for stealing opiates and shooting up fentanyl in a hospital washroom should get another crack at showing why she should get her job back, Divisional Court has ruled.At issue, the court ruled, was whether the Royal Victoria Regional Health...
A City of Kawartha Lakes man faces impaired, drug charges following a collision on Tuesday.Kawartha Lakes OPP say an officer responded to a two-vehicle collision on Pigeon Lake Road east of Lindsay. READ MORE: OPP lay charges in 2018 death of Sebright...
Fourteen people have been indicted on charges that allege they trafficked heroin, cocaine, and...
Abruptly, last week, I wound up in an ambulance. Something in my hip had gone sideways, and was delivering a lesson on pain.As we rolled up to the emergency ward, one of the paramedics leaned in: "They might not get to you until tomorrow morning,...
Alyssa Burgart and James Lozada, Opinion contributors Published 6:00 a.m. ET June 12, 2019 CLOSEWe are ashamed that our specialty board certified William Husel. Applicants with serious...
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MEDIA COURTHOUSE — A Colwyn man already serving state time for heroin distribution...
Heroin and Fentanyl were found in an airport passenger's computer bag during a search for explosives at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, according to court paperwork.Phoenix police report that on June 4, a Delta Airlines passenger heading to Seattle checked in his luggage at Sky...
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(AP) – A new study shoots down the notion that medical marijuana laws can prevent opioid overdose deaths, challenging a favorite talking point of legal pot advocates. Researchers repeated an analysis that sparked excitement years ago. READ STUDY HERE The previous work linked medical marijuana laws to slower...
Rates of deaths from suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol have reached an all-time high in the United States, but some states have been hit far harder than others, according to a report released Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund.The report examined data in all 50 states...
PHOENIX — Heroin and Fentanyl were found in an airport passenger's computer bag during a search for explosives at Sky Harbor Airport, according to court paperwork.Phoenix police report that on June 4, a Delta Airlines passenger heading to Seattle checked in his luggage at Sky...
Shares from opioid maker Insys Therapeutics Inc. will be delisted from the Nasdaq on June 19, the company said in a government filing on Tuesday.The news follows the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Monday, which was filed one week after it agreed to...
Chinese-made drugs 100 times stronger than morphine flood Australia as authorities warn the country is on the cusp of a deadly new opioids crisis Authorities warned synthetic opioids are being mailed in mass...
Naloxone is an opioid-overdose antidote that if widely used could help stem the tide of the more than 130 Americans who die each day of drug overdoses. The drug has no potential for abuse and is harmless to those who are not experiencing an opioid...
While statewide data showed improvement, Washington County saw an apparent uptick in overdose...
Mike Pompeo / Getty Images BY: Charles Fain Lehman Follow @CharlesFLehman June 11, 2019 5:00 pmSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that the United States is making progress in an increasingly global drug war, although Chinese drug gangs and the "Maduro mafia" are posing major barriers to...
Michael Smothers GateHouse Media Illinois Tuesday Jun 11, 2019 at 3:44 PM Jun 11, 2019 at 5:45 PM A Washington man will serve a 10-year prison term for supplying heroin laced with a deadly additive that combined to kill a Pekin man two years ago.Tayrod Fields, 25, accepted that sentence when he pleaded guilty Monday to drug-induced homicide,...
Huron County OPP say they have put a “significant dent” in the local drug supply after a traffic stop netted nearly $21,000 worth of fentanyl.A 38-year-old South Huron man faces a raft of charges, including two counts of possession for the purposes of trafficking.Just after...
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A Madison woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reckless homicide charge for supplying...
CLOSEA man and woman from Milwaukee have been charged with giving the controlled substance fentanyl to a Brookfield man, causing his death in 2018. Kenyon Q. Pugh, 32, and Simona L. Ramirez, 43, were charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on June 10 with first-degree reckless homicide. If...
Staff reports Tuesday Jun 11, 2019 at 12:39 PM GROVELAND — A Steuben County man was arrested by Livingston County Sheriff's Deputies after a traffic stop and investigation on Interstate 390.On May 21, Deputy Shawn Whitford was assigned to the Sheriff’s Office Operation Safe Interstate initiative when he stopped a vehicle for a traffic...