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Mike Stuart, U.S. Attorney for West Virginia's Southern District, hosted a public safety...
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Mike Stuart, U.S. Attorney for West Virginia's Southern District, hosted a public safety...
Addiction is a difficult subject to discuss because it is often complex. For one, drug addiction is a law enforcement matter, which brings a moral element to the discussion. Theft is clearly wrong, as is assault. But moral judgment when it comes to drug addiction...
Safe Station designations and NaloxBoxes, among community-based prevention activities designed to combat "the most important public health crisis of our time,” could be in place by summer in Newport. NEWPORT — The Newport Fire Department may soon become a “Safe Station,” a designation that signals its fire...
Posted: Apr. 7, 2019 12:01 am The Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders looks poised...
Shane Jensen died of an opioid overdose on Oct. 5, 2018, but he saved two others: a stranger and his daughter.Jensen’s death contributed to a record year of lives lost from opioids in Reno County, according to Sheriff Randy Henderson. His oldest daughter, Desiree, quit...
A federal judge struck down a lawsuit Thursday that threatened much of the state’s transportation funding, potentially sparing passenger rail service through Altoona — at least for now.A trucking industry group is appealing the Thursday ruling by U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane, which said it’s...
A family dog in Australia survived the harrowing ordeal of swallowing six baggies of heroin. According to an April 6 report by the Daily Mail, a cocker spaniel on a walk with its owner at a park in Brompton, Australia, picked up the bag of drugs...
Recent headlines sweeping across the United States have provided us with the slow but steady release of legal documents detailing how opioid and fentanyl-based painkillers have been marketed to vulnerable populations, such as children, the elderly and veterans. With the opioid epidemic affecting an estimated...
Sunday Apr 7, 2019 at 3:41 AM Our society is crumbling beneath our feet. Not only socially, but economically as well.Immigration is a big, controversial topic in the United States today, so I want to give my take on it. We need to stop illegal immigration and implement stronger laws to get...
There were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a number greater than all American deaths during the entire Vietnam War. Some 28,466 of those involved fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid that is...
China said Monday it could begin regulating all fentanyl-related medication as a class of controlled materials, at an alteration U.S. officials had long advocated as a way to stem the stream of deadly opioids out of China. The change in how China regulates...
With the tenacity of a pet seeking a treat, Blue, Prescott Police Department’s sole K-9, briskly sniffed lockers at Prescott High School on Tuesday morning, April 2. The 3-year-old...
Rich and Janice White knew the opioid crisis affected families across the country,...
In North Carolina’s Surry County, emergency crews responded to 371 drug overdose calls...
Faheem "Crippy" Walter has pled guilty in the case associated with disgraced rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine (Photo: Bob Levey/Getty Images)A fourth person has plead guilty in the federal racketeering case brought against rapper 6ix9ine (born Daniel Hernandez) and members of his former crew.Jamel “Mel Murda” Jones...
They got “Shorty,” but Mexican authorities are dragging their feet on the fate of another 150 jailed drug traffickers awaiting extradition to the United States, a federal source told The Post. The new administration of leftist president Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador is also doing little to seize...
Correctional officers at the Donnacona Institution, a federal penitentiary 30 kilometres west of Quebec City, are raising the alarm after witnessing a wave of fentanyl and carfentanyl overdoses.Thirty-seven inmates overdosed between September and December 2018 according to the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers, which is asking for more resources to...
The first two waves of the opioid epidemic — prescription painkillers and heroin...
Three people were arrested on Thursday in connection with an ongoing investigation into local drug trafficking, according to Campbell River RCMP. Sgt. Dave Johnson told the Mirror on Saturday that police seized fentanyl and methamphetamines along with an...
Buy PhotoThe Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office has a new piece of equipment that helps detect which type of drug a substance is, even through a bag or container. (Photo: Chris Crook/Times Recorder)ZANESVILLE - Narcotics field testing can be costly and potentially deadly but it's necessary for...
A Boston man was arrested Friday morning on charges of trafficking and distributing fentanyl following an investigation by a regional task force, officials said. The man, Yasil Delossantos, 27, was also charged with possession of cocaine, Massachusetts State Police said in a statement. Delossantos was...
A Boston man was arrested on Friday after authorities say he took a taxi to hand out free samples of fentanyl in Lawrence.Yasil Delossantos, 27, was arrested Friday after an alleged drug deal by a Subaru Forrester on Warwick Street, according to a news...
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., April 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Braeburn Inc. announces positive post-hoc analyses results from the randomized, double-blind, double-dummy Phase 3 study of BRIXADI™ (buprenorphine) extended-release weekly and monthly injections for the treatment...
Phase 3 post-hoc analysis indicates less fentanyl and overall illicit opioid use for weekly/monthly buprenorphine depots versus daily standard treatment in a difficult to treat patient population LUND, Sweden, April 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --...
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., April 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Braeburn Inc. announces positive post-hoc analyses results from the randomized, double-blind, double-dummy Phase 3 study of BRIXADI™ (buprenorphine) extended-release weekly and monthly injections for the treatment...
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Fentanyl is the strongest opiate on the streets right now and it’s estimated...
A homeless heroin addict pauses to shoot up by a railway underpass in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, which has become a hub for heroin use. (Photo: Spencer Platt, Getty Images)The U.S. attorney in Philadelphia and a high-powered nonprofit are embroiled in a legal battle over the...
Heroin still kills — and so do other opioids such as fentanyl, with which it is often cut.From January...
WEYMOUTH − Investigators are seeking the identity of a man arrested after a suspected parking lot drug deal, police said.The man, who is reportedly 31 years old and from Boston, provided officers with a Florida license with his picture but under another name. The license...
APACHE JUNCTION, AZ — A Valley mother is questioning how her 14-year old son's school handled a near-fatal drug overdose.The incident did not take place on campus, but the mother who asked to stay anonymous, says her teen overdosed on fentanyl. He told her another...
By Mike Donoghue, Reformer correspondent BURLINGTON — A Brattleboro man who officials say allowed his Oak Street apartment to become the hub of a major drug distribution business was jailed Friday after a federal magistrate ruled the defendant violated his release conditions.Francis "Peanut" Macie, 44, is...
Share This Article:Federal courthouse in downtown San Diego. Photo by Chris StoneA Fallbrook man who sold heroin laced with Fentanyl to a man who fatally overdosed on the drugs was sentenced to more than a dozen years in federal prison Friday.Support Times of San Diego's...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — At age 41, Ryan Bartell had already achieved so much: He was a two-time all-state runner, served in the Coast Guard, and was helping autistic children alongside his wife. He also had a son of his own. “Ryan called me on...
The White House routinely finds itself reaching to explain a spurious claim made by the current U.S. president or one of his bureaucrats. Sources are often questionable. “A lot of people” and “many people” are two of Donald Trump's favourites, for example.It’s less common for...
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, The...
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb has reintroduced legislation creating a grant program to help police obtain portable, chemical-screening devices that can be used to detect the dangerous drug fentanyl.Lamb, D-17, Mount Lebanon, along with U.S. Reps. David Joyce, R-Ohio, and David Trone, D-Md., introduced the Providing...
President Donald Trump doubled down on his claims that there is an immigration “emergency” at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, during a visit to the border in Calexico, California. “This is an absolute emergency,” Trump said, speaking at a U.S. border patrol station in Calexico, where...
An incapacitated man lies crumpled on the sidewalk in front of the Salvations Army's Centre of Hope in London, Ont. on Friday April 5, 2019. He and a woman ingested what police said was likely fentanyl, leading to the woman overdosing. The woman was revived...
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) — A 42-year-old Rancho Cordova nurse has been indicted by a federal grand jury in a six-count indictment charging her with distribution of fentanyl and oxycodone on the dark net. According to court documents, Carrie Alaine Markis was a registered California nurse accused...
Westbrook police and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested two people at a Saco Street apartment Thursday night and charged them with aggravated drug trafficking of fentanyl and methamphetamine. Aaron Dansky and Kelly Palmer Photo courtesy of Westbrook Police Department Charged were 34-year-old Aaron Dansky...
On March 28, over 77 pounds of suspected heroin or fentanyl were seized in Harlem, New York City. Ariel Hernandez faces drug charges and Luisuidyn Garcia Mena has been charged with conspiracy in the second degree and false personation. Fentanyl is an extremely dangerous substance, with...
A citizen of Mexico living in America who was busted trafficking 25 kilograms of...
COUDERSPORT — Following a three-day trial this week in Potter County Court, a...
Alarmed that Ohio's highest drug overdose death rate now belongs to black men, Gov. Mike DeWine is calling for increased efforts to battle addiction in the minority community.DeWine on Thursday appointed a minority health working group to develop recommendations as part of his RecoveryOhio initiative...