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(CNN) -- Top military and Homeland Security officials are considering classifying fentanyl as...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky has been awarded an $87 million...
It felt like the mass of people were gathering for a sporting event or an outdoor music festival—or even a New Year’s Eve celebration. The countdown started, caught on and spread: “Five! Four! Three! Two! One!” At the stroke of 4:20 p.m. on Saturday, cheers...
People around the world are remembering Prince on the third anniversary of his death. The musician was found unresponsive in his Paisley...
Edmonton's city police Chief Dale McFee said the drug is disproportionately showing up in calls for service — contrasting meth, a stimulant, with opioids like fentanyl, which are depressants and often make the user drowsy. Calgary Edmonton city police Chief Dale McFee knows that right now, fentanyl...
By Suzanne Elliott SElliott@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN —Fentanyl-related deaths in West Virginia in 2015 and 2017 were 122 percent of what they were between 2005 and 2014, according to a recent study by West Virginia University researchers. The state leads the country in fentanyl-related deaths and also has the highest per...
As the opioid crisis wears on, the government is considering declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, reports the military news outlet Task & Purpose. In a February memo obtained by the outlet, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for countering weapons of mass destruction...
Officials from the St. Louis County Police Department want the public and the region’s law enforcement to know touching the synthetic opioid fentanyl won’t get them high or overdose. Such myths could put overdose victims at risk, since emergency responders may be hesitant to touch...
Top military and Homeland Security officials are considering classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, according to an internal DHS memo. The synthetic opioid, blamed in health surveys for ...
The synthetic opioid, blamed in health surveys for surging drug overdose deaths in the United States, has for decades concerned national security officials because of its potential widespread lethality in terror attacks, and in recent months, officials from DHS and the Pentagon have met to...
Three New Jersey men – Chester Anderson (44 years old), Jarrett Codd (41) and Ronald McCarty (51) – have been arrested for operating a fraudulent drug storefront on the dark web via cryptocurrency.The store reportedly shipped and sold hundreds of thousands of narcotic pills that...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The 420 smoke-out in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park brought huge crowds out to Hippie Hill to celebrate the city's biggest unofficial holiday. Almost 19,000 people gathered for the event Saturday. As the clock struck 4:20 p.m., thousands of...
Editor’s note: This is the third of three parts in a series by...
The Cariboo’s own Marin Patenaude performed at the Central Cariboo Arts Centre Friday, April 12 in front of a room full of fans. She shared some new songs that will be on her next CD, and a few...
MORGANTOWN — Cities and counties across the country are seeking redress from the opioid industry for the public costs of the opioid epidemic. Because of their similarities, the suits have all been gathered under one judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - Thousands descended upon Hippie Hill at Golden Gate Park for the annual 420 pot festival. San Francisco has one of the biggest smoke out sessions where stoners alike can get high and...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A former Maryland Deputy Attorney General believes that marijuana could be an economic benefit to the City of Baltimore. Mayoral candidate Thiru Vignarajah said he would issue permits and tax the city’s marijuana trade. “Baltimore has to take the lead here,” Vignarajah said. “This is...
A former Columbia doctor has been indicted on federal charges in a national crackdown, which included 60 medical professionals from seven states in what in what is considered to be the single-largest prescription opioid law enforcement operation in U.S. history.Dr. Darrel Rinehart, who was previously...
The first generic naloxone nasal spray to treat opioid overdose has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Teva Pharmaceuticals' lifesaving product is also the first generic naloxone nasal spray approved for use by people without medical training. There was already a brand-name spray,...
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - Between 13,000 to 14,000 people gathered at a "Four Twenty" marijuana celebration at Hippie Hill in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Saturday.This is the first year celebrations have fallen on a Saturday after recreational marijuana use was legalized statewide in 2016. Social media...
CLOSE Veronica Jecker, 22, was an organ donor to three people after she died from a drug overdose. Marty Pearl/Special to Courier Journal, Louisville Courier JournalCarrie Parsley begged the first emergency room worker she saw for answers about her...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Between 13,000 to 14,000 people gathered at a “Four Twenty” marijuana celebration at Hippie Hill in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Saturday. This is the first year celebrations have fallen on a Saturday since recreational marijuana use was legalized statewide in...
Clark County will be a part of a federal-funded University of Kentucky study tasked with decreasing opioid-related deaths. In the largest grant ever awarded to the University of Kentucky, researchers from UK’s Center on Drug and Alcohol Research in partnership with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and...
BURLINGTON — A federal judge has ordered a Rutland City man jailed on various...
Marijuana is a budding business and on first legal 4/20 many lined up outside Theory Wellness to get in on the buzz. "It's super exciting, it's the first legal 4/20 on the East Coast," said Theory Wellness CEO Brandon Pollock. "It's a rainy day but we have...
By Max BryanTimes Recordmbryan@swtimes.com Saturday Apr 20, 2019 at 2:00 PM The Fort Smith man and woman who allegedly possessed a pill press prior to their arrest Wednesday were formally handed multiple felony narcotics charges Friday. Sebastian County Prosecutor Dan Shue on Friday charged Devon Carl Dodd and Muriah Lee Wilson with felony manufacture...
2 Birmingham men jailed in Shelby County after task force finds cache of drugs Updated: 8:35 PM CDT Apr 19, 2019 Two Birmingham men were arrested by narcotics investigators in Shelby County Thursday after they found two guns and a plethora of drugs including ecstasy, Xanax, meth,...
Heather B. Armstrong was never a mommy blogger who presented an idyllic picture of parenthood. Her Dooce.com — which began in 2001 — is full of candid posts about her postpartum depression, divorce and struggles as a single mother. But in 2016, Armstrong reached a nadir:...
TAUNTON — A city man was busted this week for a very small amount of narcotics. But a detective who took him into custody gave him a big piece of advice.Jared Kimball, 28, is charged with one count of illegal possession of a Class A drug...
Three South Jersey men have been convicted in a large scale drug trafficking ring after a trial that lasted 11 days, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced this week. The jury deliberated for about a day-and-a-half before returning guilty verdicts against John Gunther a/k/a "Critty," 35,...
NORTH FORT MYERS The Lee County Sheriff’s Office nabbed five suspects in multiple drug busts in North Fort Myers Thursday. During an LCSO Narcotics Unit investigation they were led to an apartment at 2000 North Tamiami Trail in North Fort Myers. Detectives found 0.5 grams of Fentanyl...
Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/Business%2520Wire/f34235613eec433fa577e628e8a815001 of 2See example for lot 180073 (Photo: Business Wire)MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 20, 2019--Alvogen, Inc. is voluntarily recalling two lots of Fentanyl Transdermal System 12 mcg/h transdermal patches...
A man busted trafficking a kilogram of fentanyl by Connecticut State Police on I-95...
CLOSE With dramatic video and calm descriptions, Camden County officers recount dramatic rescue on I-676 in Camden Jim Walsh, @jimwalsh_cpCAMDEN – A jury has convicted two brothers accused of leading a ring that peddled crack cocaine and other drugs from...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alvogen, Inc. is voluntarily recalling two lots of Fentanyl Transdermal System 12 mcg/h transdermal patches to the consumer level. A small number of...
CINCINNATI - They were medical professionals but they traded prescription pain pills for sex, prosecutors say. Others let untrained office workers examine patients, leaving a blank prescription pad at the clinic, their indictments reveal. One dentist extracted the healthy teeth of patients as an excuse to give them...
Saturday, April 20, 2019 GoLocalProv News Team View Larger + A Rhode Island man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl in Connecticut. Alcides Alba-Gomez, 29, was also ordered to sever three years of supervised release following his prison sentence. The Investigation According to court...
Police said Friday they hope they have made a major dent in the Lakes Region drug trade after a raid this week resulted in the arrest of a woman who police said was a significant drug dealer.Anjelica Olivo, 26, was arrested in Laconia and is...
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A Colonial Heights man who police say helped arrange the purchase of what...
CLOSE This is a six-month review of the most-read crime stories in Lee County on news-press.com from September 2018 to February 2019. Vonna Keomanyvong, vonna.keomanyvong@naplesnews.com; 239-213-5380Deputies arrested five people on drug charges while serving search warrants at three North...
Recent findings suggest that cannabis consumers require more than twice the usual amount of anesthesia before undergoing endoscopic surgery, opening the...
At approximately 12:37 p.m. April 14, a Colorado State Patrol trooper initiated a traffic stop along Interstate 70 near Silt.According to the affidavit in support of a warrantless arrest, the silver BMW was traveling 83 mph in a posted 75-mph zone.Upon being pulled over, the...
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Liza Ryan, a student in the Social Work/Criminal Justice program at Champlain College and an emergency department peer recovery coach for Turning Point Center of Chittenden County.As a resident of Burlington, a college student, a person in recovery and...
The Berrien County Health Department wants everyone to know there are resources available in the community for those who may be struggling with a drug addiction. News came last week from the Berrien County Prosecutor’s Office that overdose deaths have gone up recently, possibly because...