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Health officials are handing out free fentanyl-testing kits, so British Columbians can test their drugs at home, in a new pilot project to address the overdose crisis.Fentanyl, a very strong synthetic opioid, was responsible for about 87 per cent of illicit drug-overdose deaths in B.C....
COPYRIGHT 2019 YAKTRINEWS.COM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION. Reymond Linder, 22, appeared Wednesday in Yakima County Superior Court on suspicion of controlled substance homicide and possession of...
The opioid crisis continues to have a startling impact on the city of Kamloops, as 12 people have died of an illicit overdose across the first three months of 2019. According to the latest statistics from the B.C. Coroner's Services, out of overdose...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - When Allentown police found a wanted man outside what was supposed to be a...
Eight people have been arrested on federal charges in an alleged cocaine, heroin and fentanyl ring, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Three of those named in the indictment are Lackawanna residents: Felix Calderon-Valcarcel, 28; Wilmer Casiano-Perez, 25, and Yarimar Berrios Alvarado, 24. Three named in the...
BOSTON — Opioid-related overdose deaths continue to decline in Massachusetts, but in Worcester, they have jumped - increasing 21% from 80 in 2017 to 97 in 2018, according to newly-released figures from the state Department of Public Health.Statewide, the numbers dropped an estimated 4% between...
Interior Health is offering take-home drug checking kits in a new collaborative research project, with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), aiming to reduce the risk of fentanyl overdoses. “We know using...
A Kitchener mother prepares to mark the second anniversary of her teenage son’s death from an accidental opioid overdose. Zion Williams-Farrell was 14 when he took a pill that he thought was Xanax....
Essex County OPP has issued a reminder of the dangers of ingesting fentanyl in any way, even in very small quantities which can cause serious health issues including death. The warning comes after several overdoses in the county. Police say so far this year a 21-year-old Essex...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Thirteen defendants were indicted on narcotics trafficking charges Wednesday in a federal crackdown of a major methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin distribution network in Contra Costa County, federal authorities said. U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in...
Opioid-maker Insys Therapeutics is warning it may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The announcement may mark an end to the drugmaker. Shares of Insys Therapeutics plummeted Monday after the announcement, down almost three-quarters of its market value in less...
Quantities of fentanyl and carfentanil seized by Perth County OPP in February. Courtesy of Ontario Provincial Police / Windsor Star You may know that fentanyl is dangerous, but Essex County OPP are emphasizing that fact with details about recent local overdose incidents involving the drug.According to police,...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Thirteen defendants were indicted on narcotics trafficking charges Wednesday in a federal crackdown of a major methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin distribution network in Contra Costa County, federal authorities said. U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in...
Staff report Wednesday May 15, 2019 at 2:20 PM A Davidson County man was charged with second degree murder Tuesday after Lexington police say he sold heroin laced with fentanyl to a man who later overdosed and died.Daniel Allen English, 27, of 1520 Hoover Road, was charged with second degree murder by distributing...
Six people died of illicit drug overdoses in the first three months of 2019 in Chilliwack, a number that used to mark an entire year of deaths prior to the current opioid crisis in B.C. And while it...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Wednesday that it will stop accepting gifts from members of the Sackler family who own the company making the OxyContin prescription painkillers implicated in the US opioids crisis. The museum on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, one...
Purple fentanyl. Photo courtesy of OPP. ...
Massachusetts is reporting a 4% decline in opioid-related overdose deaths from 2016 to 2018, according to new state data released Wednesday. There were 2,100 fatalities in 2016, and an estimated 2,050 in 2017 and 2,033 last year.But the preliminary numbers for the first quarter of...
Essex County OPP are warning the public about the dangers of fentanyl after three overdoses and three arrests in separate cases this year. Officers are reminding everyone about the dangers of ingesting fentanyl...
A fugitive from Philadelphia, wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service for the distribution of fentanyl and heroin, may have fled to Lowell, authorities say. Walky Pereira-Decastro, 33, was federally charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics last October and has not been seen since, according to...
Sarah Peters had “the talk” with her daughter Rachel Ramirez about the dangers of drugs. And not just a talk, but an ongoing conversation. Rachel was honest with her mother. Long a sufferer from anxiety, Rachel smoked pot to ease her worries. “I don’t want pills,” she...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Benjamin Cheesbro ordered a May 8 indictment unsealed that charged...
The text alert system that warns drug treatment providers and users in Baltimore about potentially deadly street drugs is...
Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. VINCENNES, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) - Protecting K-9 Heroes provides police departments...
Strict policies traditionally embraced by Asian nations to discourage illicit drug use are beginning to change, with a few nations adopting alternative approaches while other nations are taking an even harder line against drugs, according to a new RAND Corporation report. Thailand is on the forefront...
Greenville, SC (FOX Carolina) A Greenville mom is offering a reward for answers about...
BUCKHANNON — A Buckhannon Police Department officer was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital last week for observation after being exposed to fentanyl. “Officer Angel McCauley was on a traffic stop at approximately 7 p.m. last Saturday and found a white powder substance which was later...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday that his office has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma, accusing the drug company of fueling a devastating opioid epidemic. Purdue Pharma is the maker of OxyContin, a powerful and addictive opioid that is prescribed by doctors...
WHITE PLAINS - The New York Senate has approved Stephen's Law, a measure aimed at battling the opioid crisis. Seven years ago, Carol Christiansen's son was out of treatment for less than a week...
CLOSE U.S. Rep. Tom Reed was joined by local law enforcement officials to announce he will reintroduce legislation in Congress to address an opioid epidemic. Jeff Murray / Staff videoThe 16th and final defendant in a major Elmira-based opioid ring...
Heather Yakin Times Herald-Record @HeatherYakin845 As we’ve been following the opioid epidemic, another ominous trend has emerged: a rising tide of deaths from cocaine and stimulant overdose. These deaths, according to last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and...
MARYLAND Ex-bishop who hit bicyclist is released A former Episcopal bishop who fatally struck a bicyclist while drunk and texting behind the wheel more than four years ago has been released from a Maryland lockup. Heather Cook was the second-highest-ranking Episcopal leader in the...
PROVIDENCE – A suspected drug trafficker who fled members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force in Pawtucket in early April and was arrested the next day in Fall River is facing a minimum of 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in federal...
A fentanyl check in progress. One red line on top is a positive result for the presence of fentanyl or one of its analogs. Two red lines is a negative result. Handout Vancouver Coastal Health and B.C. Centre for Disease Control are collaborating on a pilot project...
PROVIDENCE – A suspected drug trafficker who fled members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force in Pawtucket in early April and was arrested the next day in Fall River is facing a minimum of 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in federal...
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man will spend the next 10 years in prison for his role in a scheme...
Linda Sue Allen (Photo: Supplied)RICHMOND, Ind. — Police officers allegedly found fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine when serving a search warrant at a city mobile home.Linda Sue Allen, 50, of the 1400 block of New Paris Pike was jailed Monday morning after her arrest inside her residence. Later...
Photo: USCBP Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Photo: USCBP ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) - The sixteenth and final...
Both men and women across North America are dying from fentanyl – a synthetic opioid roughly 50 to 100 times more toxic than morphine that’s entered the drug supply. But when the mortality data has been crunched, the overwhelming number of victims are men, most in the...
SAN DIEGO, May 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ: ADMP) announced today conditional acceptance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the proposed brand name for the company’s high dose naloxone product candidate. The notification to the company from...
A Peterborough man is facing drug charges following a motor-vehicle collision investigation on Saturday.Peterborough police around 9:30 p.m. responded to a two-vehicle collision at Hunter and Aylmer streets.Police say that after an investigation, one of the drivers was found in possession...
NEW LENOX, IL — In 2018, Will County had 82 heroin deaths. During the first five months of 2019, there have been 32 heroin/fentanyl deaths across the county. Statistics continue to show an increase in opioid-related deaths across the state and country. In 2018, New...
It can happen to you. That is what representatives from Barrhead’s emergency services told a group of Grade 9 students from Barrhead and Neerlandia after staging a mock medical emergency at the splash park on May 9 as part of the Barrhead CARES Coalition’s PARTY Program. As...