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A father and son have been charged after an inmate at the Lancaster County Prison died of a drug overdose.Jaime Franco-Quinones and Christopher Franco-Robles are charged with drug delivery resulting in death.Lancaster police said two prison inmates out on work detail last month took a...
Dr. Gordon Smith, WVUMORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The implications behind the 122 percent increase in fentanyl-related deaths between 2015 and 2017 suggest the opioid problem is “only getting worse,” according to WVU School of Public Health researcher Dr. Gordon Smith.As this increase occurred, the death toll...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Mission Valley residents concerned after seeing a red warning sign on their neighbor's door, reading "fentanyl activity used for the illegal manufacturing or storage of fentanyl," leading them to believe a drug dealer was busted in the Presidio Place complex.The sign...
Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT BOSTON — A New Bedford man was indicted Wednesday on federal drug charges, the U.S. Attorney's office said.Davaun Oswald, 22, is charged in indictments out of U.S. District Court, Boston, with one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl and...
Alvogen, Inc. has issued a voluntary nationwide recall on some transdermal fentanyl patches due to faulty product labeling, ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have succeeded in stopping the flow of another large fentanyl shipment into the United States.Feds announced Tuesday that officials had intercepted 26 pounds of fentanyl, an extremely potent and frequently lethal drug, that was hidden inside of a truck...
A tentative trial date of Oct. 9 has been set for Jason R. Willoughby, 34, of Vineyard Haven, who was indicted by a Dukes County grand jury last October on felony charges in a case that involves a fatal overdose from the powerful drug fentanyl. On...
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump touted progress in the fight against opioid abuse on Wednesday and promised to hold drugmakers accountable for their part in the crisis, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor...
Shiloh S. Jackson (Photo: Submitted)TOLEDO — A Marion man guilty of selling fentanyl will spend less than three years in prison, a federal judge ruled this week.Shiloh S. Jackson, 30, of Marion, was charged with distribution of fentanyl last year in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
B.C.’s top health official has issued a strongly worded report that could set the province on a radical new path for how it responds to drug use and addiction.“This PHO [provincial health officer] Special Report examines the criminalization of people who use drugs in B.C.,...
Three area men, two of whom were extradited from Albania, are facing charges for...
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President Trump is delivering a speech in Atlanta Wednesday at the Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin summit after 1 p.m. Wednesday, as the U.S. has seen drug overdose deaths skyrocket in the last decade. Over 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2017, compared with...
Chicago police and the Drug Enforcement Administration were working together Wednesday to investigate a rash of at least 17...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to tout his fight against opioid abuse in remarks in Atlanta on Wednesday, a day after his administration brought its first related criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives. U.S. President Donald Trump attends...
Federal prosecutors charged drug distributor Rochester Drug Cooperative and its former CEO with drug trafficking charges Tuesday -- the first criminal charges for a pharmaceutical company and executives in the nation's ongoing opioid crisis. Interested in Opioid Epidemic? Add Opioid Epidemic as an interest to stay up...
Laurence Doud III, the former CEO of Rochester Drug Co-Operative (RDC), was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury. He is accused of distributing tens of millions of oxycodone, fentanyl, and other opioids that Rochester's own compliance department allegedly found had no legitimate need for...
CHICAGO (CBS) — CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov was drawn into a story about Chicago’s drug epidemic when she rushed to help a victim who overdosed right in front of her. It’s a horror people living in a two-block area of East Garfield Park see every day. I went...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn — Fifteen people have been indicted for a heroin and fentanyl conspiracy in Knoxville and other East Tennessee counties,...
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Two South Carolina women pleaded guilty to drug counts stemming...
A UVic chemist and a social worker are embarking on a project to perfect a test for drug users to check for deadly overdose ingredients like fentanyl. The three-year project led by Dennis Hore, professor of chemistry, and Bruce Wallace, associate professor of social work,...
NEW YORK — The former head of a drug distributor has been indicted on what federal prosecutors say are the first criminal charges against a drug company executive to stem from the opioid crisis.The indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges former Rochester Drug Co-Operative CEO Laurence Doud...
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Share This Article:Fentanyl packages. Photo via Wikimedia CommonsA drug dealer pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Tuesday to selling pills that contained the synthetic opioid fentanyl to a La Jolla man, causing the victim’s overdose death last year.Support Times of San Diego's growthwith a...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — For the first time in the nation’s opioid crisis, criminal charges have been filed against a drug company executive who’s accused of illegally distributing prescription drugs. Laurence Doud III, the retired CEO of the Rochester Drug Co-Operative, operated in the fringes of the...
Alia Paavola - Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 Print | Email Alvogen, a pharmaceutical company based in New...
Heather Yakin Times Herald-Record @HeatherYakin845 The latest salvo in the ongoing battle against opioids: The Southern District of New York on Tuesday unsealed an indictment charging the CEO of a prescription drug distribution cooperative with narcotics conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the U.S.The indictment...
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) began deploying NARCAN kits, along with...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.1. Coffins of all sizes. Mass burials began in Sri Lanka for the more than 300 people killed in Sunday’s suicide attacks. The true toll of the attacks started to come...
Alvogen, Inc, has issued a voluntary nationwide recall because of faulty product labeling on some of the transdermal patches from the Fentanyl Transdermal System, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced. The...
QUINCY — The day after her son overdosed on a near-fatal mix of heroin and fentanyl, there was a knock on the door. Two plainclothes police officers and two health workers had arrived unannounced, in the dark of the evening, and the distraught woman could...
A woman has been arrested and charged for allegedly selling a man drugs, causing his fatal overdose in Franklin County, police said.Kelly Neville, 31, was charged with dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death.Police said the arrest comes after officers found Jeffrey Shultz, 29,...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- A federal grand jury indicted 15 people for heroin and fentanyl conspiracy in Knoxville and surrounding counties on April 16. According to a release from the office of the United States Attorney Eastern District of Tennessee, a grand jury "returned an...
The federal government on Tuesday charged a major drug distributor — for the first time — for its role in perpetuating the country’s deadly opioid epidemic. Rochester Drug Cooperative faces charges for conspiring to distribute drugs and defrauding the federal government — after the...
NEW YORK (AP) — The former head of a drug distributor has been indicted on what federal prosecutors say are the first criminal charges against...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday filed its first criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives over their roles in the nation’s opioid epidemic. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Department of Justice building is seen ahead of...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEApril 23, 2019, 4:02 PM UTC / Updated April 23, 2019, 4:55 PM UTCBy Tom WinterIn a first in the fight against the opioid crisis, a major drug distribution company...
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]For the first time, a major pharmaceutical distributor is facing federal criminal charges over its role in the opioid crisis that has ravaged the United States.The company, Rochester Drug Cooperative,...
A police investigation into a “known suspended driver” in Hamilton resulted in multiple drug charges and the seizure of what they believe to be heroin and fentanyl.Police say shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, they observed a black 2010 Honda Civic...
Alvogen’s fentanyl transdermal system is sold at five different strengths, and an error saw products containing 50mcg/h patches labelled as 12mcg/h. The lots were distributed in the US to the pharmacy level.According to the company, the application of a 50mcg/h patch instead of the prescribed...
BELFAST — A needle exchange program made its Belfast debut April 18, when it officially opened to the public. The program, which is overseen by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, is run by the nonprofit Health and Equity Alliance. Until the Belfast office opened, the closest...
Opioid users fear accidental overdoses from street drugs laced with fentanyl, but unpredictable drug quality means they often lack reliable strategies to avoid it, according to a team of researchers who suggest that fentanyl test strips may reduce overdose deaths. ...
THE opioid Fentanyl could be classed as a "weapon of mass destruction" in the US, as part of a drastic bid to lower overdose deaths. The drug, which provides intense relief from severe pain, is said to be 100 times more powerful than heroin. Getty Images -...
The US Government could start classing the opiod drug fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction in a bid to improve its control of the chemical.More than 18,000 Americans died of fentanyl overdoses in 2016, a rise of more than 1,000 per cent from 1,600...
Two judges have thrown out the charges against Reo Adkins in the case from May 2017. The Erie County District Attorney's Office is once again trying to restore a drug case involving fentanyl that has been dismissed twice.Two judges in Erie County have tossed the charges...