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A study of drug diversion in the US reveals that 47.2m doses of medicine worth $454m were channeled from the lawful to the unlawful supply chain last year.The annual...
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The following were charged last week by a grand jury...
Opioid-related overdoses and deaths have been a significant public health crisis in Canada for some time, with the province of British Columbia (B.C.) having declared a public health emergency in 2016. In B.C. life expectancy fell in 2017, for the second year in a row....
During the end of last year, the Advertiser reported that according to the latest crime stats the biggest issue in Boksburg is drug-related crime, which in total stood at 1 685 cases for the four police stations. And this is certainly not a problem unique to...
Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst with the San Francisco 49ers when he got word his best friend had died.“That shattered my whole life. That changed everything,’’ said Lowe. “I said, ‘I’m going back.’’’The drug overdose death of his high school buddy...
Montreal police are worried that a dangerous drug known as “purple heroin” has made its way into the city.An internal note obtained by The Canadian Press says the police service’s analysis and intelligence department has been informed of the drug’s presence...
Vermont State Police Colonel Matthew Birmingham. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDiggerBefore Vermont’s public safety commissioner publicly concluded that one of his troopers had collapsed due to an overdose from accidental exposure to fentanyl, he asked whether it might be worth waiting.Thomas Anderson, the commissioner, sent an...
This is one of the better series in the crime drama genre. The direction, writing, cinematography, settings, and acting are superlative. Coates and LaPaglia in particular offer emotive portrayals. The plot of the series is based on the true-life Canadian Rizzuto gangster family. After being incarcerated...
We are told that just one gram can kill. This makes Fentanyl a...
A series of fake Kijiji ads offered to give away crosses from a memorial at Barton jail and encouraged takers to burn the remembrances to inmates who died of overdoses. "These crosses signify the many men and...
Drug use, like a lot of things, is subject to trends.Probably the safest way to monitor them is watching arrests – and in Alamance County lately arrests for methamphetamine are on the rise.“I think over the past couple of years we have seen a gradual...
The lawsuit names Dr. Michael Schulenberg as a defendant. Authorities say Schulenberg admitted prescribing oxycodone, a different opioid, to Johnson in the days before Prince died, knowing the drug would go to Prince. Schulenberg has disputed that, although he paid $30,000 to settle a federal...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A 23-year-old Daytona Beach fugitive was arrested Friday night after he fled from an attempted traffic stop and "a dangerous amount" of fentanyl was found in his vehicle, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. Man arrested in connection to recent drug trafficking...
Held at the Ocean County Library, the event was Kim’s 7th town hall since the freshman Democrat took office in January but his first dedicated solely to the opioids crisis TOMS RIVER — Lisa Cook knows all too well the human toll of America’s opioid crisis and...
One of the Lower Mainland’s newer gangs is now operating on Vancouver Island. Two people linked to the Brothers Keepers were arrested in Victoria earlier this month after police say they set up drug lines there. So far, Victoria police haven’t released the names...
"90% of the Drugs coming into the United States come through Mexico & our Southern Border," Trump tweeted. "This has gone on for many years & nothing has been done about it." It's important to note upfront that Trump's claim is not about the origin...
Another arrest was made in an ongoing drug trafficking investigation Friday night, according to local authorities.23-year-old Key'Shaun Martin of Daytona Beach was arrested Friday after he fled from an attempted traffic stop for a stolen license tag, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.Martin was...
Roby Leon Hanna Jr., 51, of 303 Sturkie St., Cope, pleaded guilty to...
An Enfield man whose sale of the potent opioid fentanyl contributed to the...
Congress is racing to address a problem toxicologists say probably doesn't exist: the dangers to emergency responders of incidental exposure to the powerful drug fentanyl. A bill introduced by Reps. Conor Lamb (D–Pa.), David Joyce (R–Ohio), and David Trone (D–Md.) would use federal money to...
MONTICELLO – On Monday April 8, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office arrested an individual in the parking lot of the Monticello Walmart for several vehicle...
WARREN — A Trumbull County grand jury indicted 26 people, including six secret indictments that will be unsealed when the indicted parties are arrested, according to a grand jury report. Those who were indicted are scheduled to appear 11 a.m. June 10 before Trumbull County Common...
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OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the federal government needs to "hold China accountable" for the illicit fentanyl that has fuelled Canada's opioid crisis.Speaking to municipal leaders at a convention in Quebec City, the opposition leader said opioid addiction and overdoses are both a...
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A former U.S. Border Patrol Agent is headed to federal prison for conspiring to distribute a substance used to make fentanyl, as well as smuggling a protected species of sea cucumber into the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said today. Cesar...
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the federal government needs to “hold China accountable” for the flow of illicit fentanyl that has fuelled Canada’s opioid crisis. READ MORE: Fentanyl kings in Canada allegedly linked to powerful Chinese gang, the Big Circle Boys Speaking to...
Share This Article:The 2 milligrams of fentanyl shown here are enough to kill a person. Courtesy Drug Enforcement AdministrationA former Border Patrol Agent received concurrent prison sentences for smuggling and conspiring to distribute an ingredient in fentanyl, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday.Support Times of...
Mirror photo by Greg Bock Congressman John Joyce (left), R-13th District, greets Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., on Friday in Hollidaysburg.HOLLIDAYSBURG — Citing the need to stop the flow of “poison” into places such as Blair County, two federal lawmakers came to Hollidaysburg on Friday to talk about proposed...
There have been no deaths relating to opioids in the territory so far this year, meaning that figure has sat at 19 since 2016. ...
A Syracuse man convicted 20 years ago of attempted murder admitted this week to selling fentanyl and heroin.Jondell Middlebrooks, 38, pleaded guilty to seven counts of distribution and possession of controlled substances. He admitted to selling heroin, fentanyl and mixtures of the opioids in...
A former U.S. Border Patrol agent will spend two and a half years in prison for smuggling a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of endangered sea cucumber and trafficking enough precursor to produce millions of deadly doses of fentanyl.U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo P....
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – No charges will be filed against former Eden Prairie Detective Travis Serafin whose falsified search warrant application in 2017 led to the dismissal of more than 30 cases in which he was involved, McLeod County Attorney Michael Junge announced Friday. On Sept. 15,...
Settlement payments totaling $1.86 million are being made to three families of Mount Carmel Health System patients cared for by an intensive care doctor accused of ordering inappropriate painkiller doses for 35 people, according to probate court records.A $700,000 settlement reached in the March 2017 death of...
Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer announces his immigration policy at an event hall in Toronto, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Cole Burston / THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the federal government needs to “hold China accountable” for the illicit fentanyl that...
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer says the federal government should hold China responsible for the flow of fentanyl into Canada. Cole Burston/The Canadian Press Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the federal government needs to “hold China accountable” for the illicit fentanyl that...
Two suspects were arrested on multiple drug-related charges Friday morning after the Charlotte...
Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pa. (WTAJ) -- Senator Pat Toomey spent some time in Hollidaysburg on Friday to discuss a new, bipatrisan bill to combat fentanyl being brought into the country.The proposed legislation would require...
Some 20 cameras have been put into operation in the last several weeks along the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago’s...
Cassandra Stephenson, Jackson Sun Published 5:03 p.m. CT May 31, 2019 CLOSE Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is quickly becoming the most dangerous drug in...
The New York Health Department launched a public information campaign Tuesday designed to prevent overdose deaths by educating opioid users on safe use and especially on the dangers of fentanyl.The campaign will target neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the opioid epidemic and will...
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Authorities say a southern Indiana man has been arrested in connection with the fentanyl-based overdose death of a 22-year-old woman. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday that 25-year-old Kalib Powell of Evansville is accused of selling the drug to Jacilynn Holifield, also of...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – No charges will be filed against former Eden Prairie Detective Travis Serafin whose falsified search warrant application in 2017 led to the dismissal of more than 30 cases in which he was involved. On Sept. 15, 2017, Minneapolis SWAT officers found the evidence...