[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1539105106917{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”817″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
By Viktoria Ristanovic Nation & World Editor On April 1, China declared all varieties of fentanyl as controlled substances and would officially ban the opioid from the country starting on May 1, according to The New York Times. Xi announces the ban on the controlled substance. (YouTube)Chinese President...
What to KnowNew Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez announced the Fentanyl Sanctions Act, which would hold China accountable for their role in the opioid epidemic.The legislation would impose sanctions on China and Chinese entities who supply and support the trafficking of fentanyl. The Act would also...
In just the first three months of 2019, drug overdose has claimed the lives of more than 600 people across the state. Government leaders say that’s due in large part to the infiltration of the potent synthetic opioid known as fentanyl. It’s 50 times more...
A Seacoast man was sentenced to 12 years in prison Monday for selling a fatal dose of drugs to a teenager.Benjamin Mackenzie, 22, was found guilty of selling a lethal dose of fentanyl to Bryanna Frechette, 19, in 2016. The victim's family described the pain...
CAMDEN, NJ— U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez was in Camden Monday to announce new legislation that would impose steep sanctions on China and Chinese entities who supply and support fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opiate that is 50 times more potent than heroin. Menendez was joined by city...
In May, the Ridgecrest Police Department will launch its Naloxone program with the intention of saving lives. Naloxone is a non-addictive, life-saving drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose when it is given in time. It works by binding the opioid receptors...
Lynda Bascelli, the chief medical officer at Project H.O.P.E — a Federally Qualified Health Center in Camden— can provide medication-assisted treatment to 275 people experiencing...
Street oxycodone laced with fentanyl. - Video - CityNews Winnipeg Street oxycodone laced with fentanyl. ...
After a 27-year-old man was found dead in his home from a fentanyl overdose, authorities in Warren County traced the source of the powerful painkiller.A two-and-a-half-month investigation led them to Matthew Evans, of the first block of Woolston Way in Washington Borough -- a...
Journal Staff Monday Apr 8, 2019 at 5:14 PM A Dominican national, who has been deported from the United States three earlier times, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to trafficking heroin and fentanyl, and illegal reentry into the United States, according to a news release from the office of U.S. Attorney...
A Georgia man was arrested Friday after a raid on a Hagerstown apartment...
Thompson RCMP are searching for a man wanted in connection with more than 1,400 pills – confirmed by police to contain fentanyl – seized at a traffic stop in February.Matthew Delorme, 29, who was arrested and released on a recognizance for...
Kolin Glendenning isn’t trying to sugarcoat anything when it comes to the recent death of his father.“He was an addict. He spent a lot of time in jail,” the 25-year-old London man told 980 CFPL.“As far as I know, my grandma...
Lawmakers have passed several medical marijuana bills through both chambers this session, hoping...
There’s not a community in Ohio that hasn’t been touched by the opioid...
Thompson RCMP Image THOMPSON – RCMP in Manitobahas confirmed that the pills seized during...
Last month, when Allergan’s $AGN once-touted pipeline star rapastinel crashed and burned a slate of pivotal depression studies, it looked like the experimental modulator of the NMDA receptor would be shrouded in a cloak of invisibility — but researchers may have found a way to...
Elements of the Mexican Army and state police seized 12,260 fentanyl pills and 34 grams of cocaine during security operations a military checkpoint in Sonora over the weekend, which resulted in the arrest of one adult male. The Federal Attorney General’s Office of Mexico announced the...
Police are trying to determine the identity of a who was charged with selling heroin/Fentanyl to a woman in a parking lot at 575 Broad St shortly before 6 p.m. on April 3.Lt. John Perchard said the suspect identified himself as William Adino Sanchez, 31,...
Lyndsay Hartman spends Saturday afternoons sitting in front of death and trying not to think about it. She loads up her vehicle with needles, Narcan and fentanyl test strips. She drives over to the Kane County Coroner's office and parks outside the front door with a...
In a case that offers a window into the spread of addictive painkillers, a Sacramento County nurse was indicted by a federal grand jury last week after prosecutors said she sold more than 20,000 prescription opioid pills — including powerful and deadly fentanyl — on...
Credit: Office of the United States Attorney Above: Fentanyl pills pictured from a seizure in San Diego, Sept. 14,...
I’ll never forget the moment I found out my best friend died of a Fentanyl overdose.I awoke to a bright and vibrating phone at 8:30 a.m. It was an oddly early time for a young person to be receiving a phone call. My social circle...
A woman who was on the most wanted list of a New Hampshire county was apprehended in Maine.34-year-old Lace Meatty of Rochester, New Hampshire had a warrant out for her arrest from the Strafford County New Hampshire Sheriff's Department. Maine State Police arrested Meatty on the...
Nine people were indicted in Brown County Common Pleas Court on April 1. Mary Arvin, 30 and Christopher Darnell, 32 both of Georgetown are charged with multiple drug counts involving Hashish. Both are charged with two counts of Corrupting Another With Drugs, both first degree felonies;...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPNT), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing medicines for addictions and drug overdose, today announced that clinical pharmacokinetic (PK) data for OPNT003, nasal nalmefene containing Intravail® (dodecyl maltoside), were published online in the Journal...
2 accused of trafficking meth, fentanyl near Westbrook school, police say Updated: 7:10 AM EDT Apr 8, 2019 Agents with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and officers with Westbrook police arrested two people Thursday as part of an investigation.Police arrested Aaron Dansky, 34, and Kelly Palmer, 27.Police...
If five pedestrians died at a busy crosswalk in a 72-hour period, or five people died in a week from toxic lettuce, the clocks would stop, as the poets say, the authorities would cluster, everything menial set aside.But five sons or fathers or mothers who...
CINCINNATI — Although the charges Dr. Saad Sakkal faces are serious, he isn't the only local doctor accused of worsening the region's opioid crisis by writing irresponsible prescriptions to vulnerable patients. He isn't even the only one who worked at Lindenwald Medical Associates.The federal case...
At the beginning of a video released by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a police officer is exposed to fentanyl and experiences symptoms of an overdose. The video serves to highlight the risks to first responders who may be exposed to...
Last year, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch secured a guilty plea on a...
Fresh data has shown that PLC’s () Sublocade opioid addiction treatment is more effective at higher doses. Sublocade is a once-monthly injection that Indivior is...
North Bay Police Service SUV. Photo by Stu Campaigne, Moose FM An update on a late February motor vehicle collision and the subsequent investigation that has led North Bay Police Service to lay charges beyond the scope of the collision itself. The crash resulted in Pinewood...
A suspected drug dealer in San Rafael has been arrested for the third time in five months, but this time for a federal indictment. Johnny Earl Henderson, 59, appeared in federal court in San Francisco on Friday to face charges of methamphetamine distribution and being a...
“Bosch” Season 5 is only two weeks away and fans of the police procedural can’t wait for yet another action-packed installment. The story will start...
The following people were recently indicted by a Portage County grand jury. Indictments are only charges and not evidence of guilt: • Joseph Arbogast, 25, of 529 E. Main St., No. 13, Ravenna; driving a vehicle under the influence, a fourth-degree felony, and driving under...
0 ...
A Philadelphia man who has been in the Blair County Prison since his arrest for heroin sales in August 2017, stated in a federal petition that he wants help for his mental health problems and he is not getting it.Keith Charles Christian, 45, filed a...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video YORK, Pa. -- York City firefighters say they've seen an uptick in drug overdoses in the past two weeks, and the fire chief thinks he might know why. Specifically, Chief Chad Deardorff says...
COLORADO – By John Herrick for The Colorado Independent. Colorado lawmakers are moving ahead with drug-possession sentencing reforms as part of a broader effort to curb the opioid epidemic and drive down the state's prison population. "We know that addiction is a public health issue,"...
Mary Byberg at a rally in Queen's Park protesting the Ford government's recent cuts to overdose prevention. Mary recently lost her daughter to an overdose. The Globe and Mail Three mothers stricken by the opioids crisis have gathered for a question-and-answer...
In a digital version of broken telephone, the debunked claim that illicit cannabis is now being laced with deadly fentanyl has travelled to the White House from a Vancouver police press release put out four years ago. Twice in the past month, the U.S....
Burlington’s efforts to fight the opioid epidemic have earned the city national attention, with Mayor Miro Weinberger and other officials touting the 50 percent decrease in opioid deaths between 2017 and 2018 in Chittenden County. During Weinberger’s State of the City address Monday, the mayor called on the Legislature to pass H.162,...
Maine State Police said they have arrested a New Hampshire woman who was listed on Strafford County New Hampshire’s most wanted list. In a post on Facebook, state police said they arrested 34-year-old Lace Meatty of Rochester, New Hampshire, at a home in Lebanon on Friday...
Two Monroe County men are facing years in prison after supplying heroin that lead to an overdose death of a mother who died in front of her young son. Two Monroe County men are facing years in prison after supplying heroin that lead to an overdose...
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer wants the federal government to crack down on illegal shipments of fentanyl into the United States by bolstering points of entry here in New York. ...
Chris Mackie, the top public health official for London and Middlesex County, held a Friday press conference with London police chief John Pare to discuss the rash of recent drug overdoses that have killed five London men in the past six days. (MIKE HENSEN,...