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Nicole Norwood grew up as a fairly average youth in the Santa Clarita Valley, she said. She occasionally drank beer and smoked a bit of pot. But her life began spiraling into the abyss at 18, when she was prescribed opioids as painkillers after emerging from...
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...
Fentanyl-related deaths reported in Spartanburg County have more than doubled in two years.The potent opioid killed more than twice as many people in 2018 than in 2016, and about 65-percent more people than in 2017, according to the Spartanburg County Coroner’s Office’s annual report.The report,...
MORGANTOWN — Even as deaths relating prescription opioids are starting to decline, deaths related...
By Adam Shanks, The Berkshire Eagle NORTH ADAMS — A city man who led police on a brief foot chase Wednesday night allegedly tried to ditch 200 bags of fentanyl. Marquis Williamson, 31, is being held on $1,500 bail after being arraigned Friday in Northern Berkshire District...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco city officials said on Thursday they’re cautioning visitors of the city’s annual 420 marijuana celebration against buying or accepting cannabis from unlicensed vendors after nearly a dozen event-goers were hospitalized for opioid overdoses at last year’s event. This year’s...
San Francisco city officials said on Thursday they're cautioning visitors of the city's annual marijuana celebration "Four-Twenty" against buying or accepting cannabis from unlicensed vendors after nearly a dozen event-goers were hospitalized for opioid overdoses at last year's event.This year's pot celebration, held every April...
FLORISSANT, Mo. (KMOV.com) – A Florissant man has pleaded guilty to selling a...
Drugs with an estimated street value of more than $1 million were found at a California immigration checkpoint, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced. Authorities...
Three men were charged Thursday in federal court in Boston with participating in a scheme to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl, according to US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling’s office. In a statement, Lelling’s office identified the suspects as Javier Marrero, 27, and Ariel...
Opioid deaths in New York have become so commonplace that it's virtually impossible to remember one tragedy...
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OxyContin began being prescribed widely for chronic pain, often to laborers who were hurt on the job, or to athletes for their injuries. Sometimes these athletes were high schoolers. Many became addicted to the painkiller and moved on to heroin and later, fentanyl. The death totals...
Falls Police Narcotics Intelligence Division detectives said it wasn't hard to find where...
Journal Staff Friday Apr 19, 2019 at 9:04 AM Apr 19, 2019 at 9:05 AM He was stopped with another Providence man on Route 95 in 2017. PROVIDENCE -- A Providence man was sentenced in federal court to 2½ years in prison for trafficking fentanyl, the U.S. Attorney in Connecticut announced in a press release Friday.Alcides Alba-Gomez, 29, will serve three...
Local law enforcement and drug prevention and treatment agency officials are on alert with word of an increase in the appearance of a synthetic narcotic even more potent than deadly fentanyl. The Federal Drug Administration says “carfentanil”, which is surfacing around the country, is 100-times more...
A makeshift memorial in Miami for Kyle Dodds, who died of an overdose of heroin and fentanyl in 2016. A $353 million government effort aims to cut opioid deaths by 40 percent in three years. (Scott McIntyre/For The Washington Post) ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control, two-thirds of the nation's drug deaths involved opioids. The percentage is much lower in Texas, but rising. The crisis is serious enough that University of North Texas recently began offering a medication that could save lives.It...
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GIBSON, Tenn. — It’s not just any drug hitting the town of Gibson. “The heroin problem is really becoming an issue, especially laced with fentanyl. It’s...
The Department of Homeland Security is considering a proposal to label fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, according to a new report. Task & Purpose,...
(WBNG) — A recent rise in overdose deaths in several states throughout the nation related to the synthetic opioid carfentanil has led Southern Tier health officials to be on alert for the drug. According to the Federal Drug Administration, carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl which...
To the Editor:Fentanyl is the strongest opiate on the streets right now and it’s estimated to be 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin. Not only is fentanyl sold on the streets “as is,” but it’s also mixed into other...
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A Providence man who was found to be carrying a kilogram of fentanyl when stopped by police in Old Lyme in 2017 has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.U.S. Attorney John H. Durham announced the sentencing of Alcides...
In a 2013 file image, former FBI director Robert Mueller attends the ceremonial swearing-in of FBI Director James Comey at the FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/CNP/Prensa Internacional/Zuma Press/TNS) (Photo: Alex Wong/CNP / TNS)The highly anticipated report by special counsel Robert Muller indicating Russian interference in...
Soeby was initially charged in Grand Forks County District Court along with her husband, 40-year-old Joshua David Soeby, and her sister, 41-year-old Kelly Jo Nelsrud. The charges were elevated into federal court in May.Grand Forks County court documents said investigators were called to 5915 Wydown...
(Reuters) - U.S. health officials on Thursday said they will spend $350 million in four states to study ways to best deal with the nation’s opioid crisis on the local level, with a goal of reducing opioid-related overdose deaths by 40 percent over three years...
Multiple people are in federal custody as a result of a partnership between...
Kingston’s public health unit is warning residents there may be an increased risk of illicit drugs being contaminated with fentanyl and carfentanil.KFL&A Public Health says data shows an increase in the presence of both substances, which have been known to be...
A Broome County man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after police seized drugs they said had a street value of $1 million.37-year-old Marlon Graham of Deposit was sentenced in county court Thursday morning.Graham pleaded guilty to two felony counts of criminal possession...
It was right around twenty years ago when some dude sitting next to me leaned over and said: “Hey man, that joint we just smoked had formaldehyde in it.” What the hecking f**k -- I’m not going to lie, at first, I panicked. I mean,...
Mexican federal investigators discovered an active fentanyl lab and seized 33,000 pills and 25 pounds of powder after a search warrant was executed at a residence in Culiacán, Sinaloa. Personal de la #FGR en #Sinaloa aseguró más de 33 mil pastillas de fentanilo, heroína y ácido...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized 125 pounds of heroin and fentanyl with an estimated street value of $2.6 million during a vehicle inspection at the Arizona border Saturday. The major seizure occurred when a 37-year-old Mexican national attempted to enter the United States...
As the opioid epidemic occupies headlines, so does scaremongering — and right now, fentanyl is enemy number one. Depending on the news you read, you may have heard that coming into...
CLOSE The Broome County Special Investigations Unit Task Force seized substantial amounts of heroin, fentanyl and meth in Deposit. Anthony Borrelli, pressconnects.com Despite a last-minute bid to withdraw his guilty plea and stand trial, Deposit man was sentenced Thursday to 15...
Photo via KFL&A Public Health. Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Public Health has issued a warning regarding the increased potential for illicit drugs being contaminated with fentanyl and carfentanil. “Since February 2019, local data has identified an increase in the presence of carfentanil and fentanyl circulating...
CONCORD, NH — A New Hampshire woman with prior drug charges has been arrested after a Granite Shield narcotics investigation in the Lakes Region. Anjelica Olivo, 26, of Union Avenue in Laconia, was arrested on April 17, 2019, on warrants. Yesterday, members of the New...
Story by Brian Pascus – CBS News Dozens of people, including 53 medical professionals, have been charged for their alleged participation in the illegal prescription and distribution of opioids and other narcotics, Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services officials said Wednesday. Federal law enforcement and health...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RI — A local woman is facing charges after police said she used fentanyl with another person, then abandoned them during an overdose. Julia Martin, 28, was arrested on Wednesday following the incident in February. According to South Kingstown police, the victim was...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal authorities said Wednesday they have charged 60 people, including a doctor accused of trading drugs for sex and another of prescribing to his Facebook friends, for their roles in illegally prescribing and distributing millions of pills containing opioids and other drugs. U.S....
By AUSTEN BUNDY/Cronkite NewsPHOENIX, AZ – Baltimore and Phoenix are two completely different cities culturally and geographically, but they're both experiencing the same problem: increased deaths due to opioid overdoses, specifically those involving powerful fentanyl.From June 2017 to April 2019, there were a little more...
BOISE, Idaho — A Boise nurse who admitted to swiping vials of the powerful pain medication fentanyl from the hospital where...
Washington — NIOSH has released a video intended to protect first responders who face potential exposure to fentanyl – a synthetic opioid considered up to 50 times more potent than heroin – and other illicit drugs. The 13-minute video, Illicit Drugs, Including Fentanyl: Preventing Occupational Exposure...
NEW BEDFORD — New Bedford Police arrested seven people on drug charges throughout the day Tuesday, including a 73-year-old man.At about 1:30 p.m., police arrested 33-year-old Fallon Boucher and 32-year-old Keith Fleming, both of New Bedford, on charges of possession of a Class B substance...