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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Staten Island man was arrested and charged earlier today with allegedly selling at least 40 grams of fentanyl and heroin laced with fentanyl between July 2018 and April 2019, resulting in two fatal overdoses.Nalerton Charles, 38, otherwise known as...
Deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide have increased markedly over the last 20 years, reversing a century-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. These “deaths of despair” are now greater than the number of motor vehicle-related fatalities each year. Many of these deaths could...
When Lauren Lollini went to the hospital for kidney surgery in 2009, she was shocked when she left with hepatitis C and a liver infection."My life dramatically changed because now I am a 40-year-old woman with a...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An Orange Park man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars for distributing...
(Black Press Media file photo) Vaccine against fentanyl shows promising...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former pharmacy technician at a Springfield hospital has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing painkillers meant for cancer and burn patients. The Springfield News-Leader reports that 37-year-old Marc Musil, of Springfield, was...
Waterloo Regional Police have arrested and charged a 47-year-old man after searching a home in Kitchener on Friday afternoon, where police said they found fentanyl, methamphetamine, hydromorphone and other items. READ MORE: House of Friendship fire in Cambridge now a criminal investigation...
Formerly Incarcerated Mothers Hold Vigil At Cook County JailAs Mother's Day approaches, dozens of former inmates are pushing fo compassion for women in prison, and their children.16 minutes agoCBS 2 Weather Watch (11AM, May 6, 2019)CBS 2 Meteorologist Megan Glaros has the latest 7-day forecast.36...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A group of lawmakers held an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss ways to fight the ongoing opioid crisis, nearly two weeks after at least 20 people overdosed on heroin on the West Side. The lawmakers said opioid addiction is nothing short of...
Moreover, the crisis is evolving fast. At the American College of Medical Toxicology’s 2019 annual meeting, featured speaker Keith Humphreys, PhD, remarked that “Fentanyl was invented in the sixties. To get to 10,000 deaths took 50 years. To get to 20,000 took 12 months.”In fact,...
EU scientists are working to analyse and identify synthetic drugs, in a fight against a rapidly-growing market.New psychoactive substances (NPS) are designed to mimic the effects of illegal narcotics such as cannabis, cocaine or heroin, and can be extremely harmful.Despite this, the synthetic drugs are...
Top Executives of Insys, an Opioid Company, Are Found Guilty of Racketeering [NY Times]A fentanyl maker's top executives, including the company's founder, have been convicted of racketeering. "Just as we would street-level drug dealers, we will hold pharmaceutical executives responsible for fueling the opioid epidemic." Grandmother...
© ShutterstockReps. French Hill (R-AR), Max Rose (D-NY), Anthony Brindisi (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) recently introduced legislation designed to implore the Chinese government to honor its commitment of making fentanyl illegal while providing tools to address traffickers.The Fentanyl Sanctions Act mirrors legislation introduced...
A new awareness campaign aims to dispel some myths about the risks of opioid overdose for casual drug users.The Know Your Drugs campaign officially launched Friday in Thunder Bay, an initiative of the city police's Zone Watch program.Thunder Bay police media coordinator Scott Paradis said the campaign...
North Bay police have charged three North Bay residents in connection with separate fentanyl deaths in the city. The first person to die of a drug overdose was a 24-year-old North Bay man who died last June. Police continued to investigate his death and have now charged...
Mississauga Centre MPP Natalia Kusendova tabled her first private members bill on Wednesday (May 1) in an effort to fight back against Canada’s opioid crisis. If passed, the Mandatory Police Training Act, 2019 will require those under...
So-called “designer drugs” can be fatal - but most of them are still legal and available in e-shops. Their expansion is causing a serious headache to customs agencies and lawmakers across Europe.Scientists are now racing against the clock to fight the fast-moving new drug market....
Please enable Javascript to watch this video LAKEWOOD, Ohio – Thousands of bars hope to catch on big with new drink inventions. One Ohio establishment seems to have found a way to cut through the noise by serving a cocktail...
ALAMOGORDO, NM — In this sprawling desert city in the shadow of the Sacramento Mountains, local officials are fed up with the border crisis — and have gone rogue. Otero County last month became the first border community to declare a state of emergency after the...
US prosecutors are expected to turn up the heat on drugmakers, distribution companies and doctors after jail sentences in the Insys trial showed a jury was prepared to convict defendants for their role in the opioid epidemic. Insys founder and chairman John Kapoor was the...
“Opioid dependence, addiction, and abuse are an epidemic in this country,” said First Lady Melania Trump during a meeting with a group of those affected by Opioids. During her remarks, the First Lady encouraged people to break through the stereotypes of drug addiction. Mrs. Trump asked...
DORCHESTER – State Police arrested three men and confiscated three duct-taped bricks of fentanyl following a six-month investigation into opioid trafficking.Pablo Alberto Arias Herrera, 48, of Dorchester, and Omar Medina-Santiago, 31, and Julio Missael Ramirez Peguero, 26, both of Roslindale, are scheduled to be...
PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES Cannabis, however, not on scientists’ testing list ELI HILLeli.hill@age.co.nz Government scientists testing Masterton’s wastewater have found methamphetamine to be Masterton’s most popular drug – by a long shot. In 2016 scientists began testing for meth, MDMA, fentanyl and heroin in Whangarei, Auckland’s North Shore and Christchurch –...
Mahaska County Sheriff Russ Van Renterghem Oskaloosa, Iowa – At Mahaska Drug this past Saturday, the Oskaloosa Police Department and the Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office held a drug take back day. The hope is that individuals will turn in their unused prescription drugs in an effort to...
Tiffany Tan, Bennington Banner BENNINGTON — A 50-year-old local woman has pleaded not guilty to providing fentanyl to another woman who died of the drug in January. Beth Brace is charged with selling or dispensing a regulated drug in Bennington that resulted in the death of Dawn...
The following people were recently indicted by a Portage County grand jury. Indictments are only charges and not evidence of guilt: • Dennis E. West, 52, of 1220 Kanawha Terrace, No. 4, of Huntington, West Virginia; grand theft, a fourth-degree felony, after an incident on...
Former Mercy Employee Convicted of Stealing Drugs | KTTS ...
Opioid's are addictive. (Image: GETTY)Research also revealed up to 45 per cent of the drugs were for pensioners – with 30 per cent women over the age of 65. Miss Stemp, from Chichester, West Sussex, said: “I had no idea they [opioids] are so addictive. We’re...
Miss a day, miss a lot, so take a moment to catch up on some of the past week's headlines from across the North Shore. Navy Recruit Dies During Physical Fitness Exam At Great Lakes An 18-year-old Navy recruit from Alabama died last week at...
A Burr Ridge man who allegedly supplied fentanyl-laced heroin to a 23-year-old woman in west suburban Hinsdale has been charged with drug-induced homicide.On the night of Jan. 14, Hinsdale police officers found Jennifer Tandy dead in her home after she overdosed on a mixture of...
MADISON, Wis. - A Wisconsin family is reflecting on their loved one after she overdosed in December.Amy Wren said her niece, Olivia Reigel, had a smile that could light up a room."She was carefree and loving," Wren said. "She liked photography, liked being outside with...
In the early 2000s, Jon DeLena was working as an undercover narcotics agent...
Seven New Mexico counties have filed federal lawsuits against Purdue Pharma — the...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEMay 5, 2019, 11:11 AM UTCBy Corky SiemaszkoThe bitter lessons about the dangers of cocaine from the Disco Era in the 1970s may be lost on a new...
Nearly 1,000 men and women in California prisons overdosed last year and required emergency medical attention in what officials acknowledge is part of an alarming spike in opioid use by those behind bars, according to records obtained by The Chronicle. ...
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Last week, John Kapoor, the Indian-origin founder of US-based Insys Therapeutics became the first pharmaceutical boss to be convicted on charges of racketeering in a case linked to...
Durham police have arrested two suspects in a human trafficking investigation that allegedly involved a 21-year-old female victim in Port Hope.Officers arrested Radcliffe Andrews, 35, and Jennifer Finlay, 34, on May 3. They are facing numerous charges in an ongoing human...
Mary Margaret Olohan A federal jury declared five Insys executives guilty Thursday of bribing doctors to prescribe addictive drugs to patients. The Boston jury found 76-year-old Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other former company executives guilty of bribing doctors to prescribethe addictive fentanyl spray Subsys, CBS News reported. They convicted the highest-ranking pharmaceutical representative thus...
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The number of overdoses in New Hampshire's two largest cities is declining but the number of overdose deaths actually grew in Manchester in April.Officials say seven people died from overdoses last month in Manchester, compared with two in April 2018. Chris Stawasz, regional director of...
The powerful painkiller fentanyl is continuing its deadly rampage, especially in Spotsylvania County,...
Pills, patches and painkillers were among the variety of items collected locally during...
Regarding the article "State urges feds to deregulate addiction meds," April 9, buprenorphine could mitigate the nation's...
LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Thousands of bars hope to catch on big with new drink inventions, but one Ohio establishment has found a way to...