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Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine. File Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerVermont’s top health official is pushing back on efforts to allow possession of a popular opioid treatment drug without a prescription, a proposal he said would get his “slam dunk” support in any other state.Health Commissioner...
BOSTON, April 4 (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Thursday will present their closing arguments in the trial of the wealthy founder of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics Inc and four colleagues accused of contributing to the U.S. opioid epidemic by bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl...
HARRISBURG — Seven people have been indicted for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, and distribution of heroin and fentanyl resulting in death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of PA...
A view of trash that drug users left under a Philadelphia bridge in 2017. City officials are trying to come up with innovative solutions for the opioid crisis. One possibility — a safe injection site — has drawn federal scrutiny. (Salwan Georges/The Washington...
Fentanyl is killing black people in Connecticut at the same rate as whites for the first time since state officials began tracking the epidemic around 2012, a CT Mirror analysis has found.There is no clear consensus among experts in Connecticut as to what is driving...
Packets of fentanyl mostly in powder form and methamphetamine, which US Customs and Border Protection say they seized from a truck crossing...
This week’s spike in opioid overdoses across Southwestern Ontario is what the region’s top medical officer is calling “the worst it’s ever been” since fentanyl arrived on the drug scene a year ago.Chris Mackie, the chief medical officer of health at the Middlesex-London health unit...
This week’s spike in opioid overdoses across Southwestern Ontario is what the region’s top medical officer is calling “the worst it’s ever been” since fentanyl arrived on the drug scene a year ago.Chris Mackie, the chief medical officer of health at the Middlesex-London health unit...
Saskatoon provincial court Greg Pender / Saskatoon StarPhoenix Lawyers of two men who are on trial, accused of trafficking fentanyl-laced cocaine tied to fatal overdoses in Saskatoon, can question a police officer about a search warrant that led to their clients’ arrest. Judge Doug Agnew determined the test...
A Buffalo man allegedly caught with about 600 grams of heroin mixed with fentanyl was arraigned Wednesday in State Supreme Court on drug charges, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office. Prosecutors said 39-year-old Willie Loyd was charged with one count of first-degree criminal possession...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A drug ring investigation led to the arrest of 7 people from Harrisburg. Now, three of the accused are potentially facing life behind bars. All 7 people are accused of selling...
It’s not often you see the words “win” and “Trump” in a headline on CNN’s website. It’s rarer still when those words are separated by the word “for” and not some variation of that “win” being against the president. Yet that happened on Monday because,...
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle. [Submitted photo] U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested an Arizona man for an alleged attempt to smuggle fentanyl through the Port of San Luis. Officers referred a 23-year-old Glendale man for additional inspection as he attempted to enter the...
Prosecutors say that he also threatened to kill 6ix9ine....
China has said it will clamp down on fentanyl production after pleas from President Trump. There is little doubt that China is the main source of the powerful opioid fentanyl. Most legal supply and illicit trade starts in China. But I’m skeptical that China will be that effective...
A 21-year-old Stoney Creek man is facing heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine possession charges after a traffic stop early Wednesday.Shortly after midnight, Hamilton police say they pulled over a grey Mazda 3 “operating in a suspicious manner” in the area of Barton...
President Donald Trump and his minions cooked up a fake national security crisis to justify diverting billions of dollars to build a bigger, wider border wall to keep out of the hordes of immigrants he imagines marching across the deserts, hills and prairies between established...
China has banned all forms of the opioid fentanyl, following a promise President Xi Jinping made to President Donald Trump last year, The New York Times reports. Much of the world’s fentanyl is believed to be made in China, and the drug increasingly became a point...
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2:56 PM 04/01/2019 | WorldGraeme Gallagher | Contributor The Chinese government will ban all types of fentanyl-related substances by adding it to their list of controlled drugs, according to CNN. Largely believed to be made mostly in China, the ban will take effect on May 1...
China will expand the range of fentanyl-related substances it defines as controlled narcotics, a Chinese security official said on Monday, blaming U.S. culture for abuse of the drug.U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized China for allowing fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, to...
BEIJING — China announced on Monday that it would treat all variants of the powerful opioid fentanyl as controlled substances, making good on a pledge the country’s leader, President Xi Jinping, made to President Trump late last year.China’s export of the drug, a family of...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.)Good morning,We’re covering President Trump’s plan to close the border with Mexico, a woman’s accusation against Joe Biden and the details of New York State’s $175 billion budget.A border threat from President TrumpIt would take “something...
The new laws are likely to be interpreted as win for US President Donald Trump, who has taken a strong stance against fentanyl and was full of praise for China in December 2018 when President Xi Jinping first agreed to the move."This could be a...
Image Source: img.thedailybeast Kellyanne Conway, the presidential counsellor suggests that cannabis is laced with fentanyl. “People are unwittingly ingesting it,” Conway said during a press conference in a discussion about fentanyl. “It’s laced into heroin, marijuana, meth, cocaine and it’s also just being distributed by itself.” Kellyanne, a chief player...
Synthetic opioids outlast current antidotes. A nanoparticle-based alternative could fix that.A newly developed single-dose opioid antidote lasts several days, a study in mice shows. If the results can be duplicated in humans, the treatment may one day help prevent overdoses from deadly drugs like fentanyl.Normally,...
The Woodstock Police Service made a rare warning after they responded to a number of fentanyl overdoses in Woodstock in the past 48 hours.Police said Saturday evening they’d received “a significant number fentanyl overdoses in the City of Woodstock.”The release said they seized substances with...
Police have arrested more than 20 people in six local communities as part...
GLENDALE, AZ — A Glendale man and his pregnant girlfriend have been indicted in a federal drug trafficking case, accused of mailing counterfeit opioid pain pills across the country. Jacob Medina, 26, and his pregnant girlfriend, Diane Erika Marin, were arrested March 4 at their...
Opinion writers weigh in on these public health issues and other health issues. Los Angeles Times: Mr. President, The Real National Emergency Is Fentanyl President Trump and his minions cooked up a fake national security crisis to justify diverting billions of dollars to build a bigger, wider border...
CONCORD – U.S. Attorney Scott Murray said Steven Moore, 36, of Plymouth, New Hampshire, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Court filings and statements made in court established that Moore and Samantha Merrifield arranged to sell...
Zequiel E. Ahrns Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Zequiel E. Ahrns MERCER COUNTY, Ohio (WANE) - An...
Fentanyl has been linked to a growing number of drug overdose deaths in New Orleans, mirroring a trend seen nationally in recent years.While the number of drug-related overdose deaths in New Orleans involving opiates in general has remained relatively steady (168 deaths last year,...
The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office is the latest local law enforcement agency to train its officers to carry and administer the life-saving drug naloxone. With exposure to the deadly opiate substance fentanyl on the rise, and the number of overdoses continuing to climb, the agency...
Photo: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Copyright 2019 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Photo: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office DAYTON, Ohio...
BUFFALO -- A federal jury in Buffalo has convicted the last two members...
The Scales of Justice statue at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. Chad Aaron Bissat is going to jail for four years after police seized a large cache of drugs from him, including more than 600 fentanyl pills. Jason Payne / PNG A Kamloops man who was convicted...
By Nick Blank GREEN COVE SPRINGS – Two Clay County men accused of buying the drugs that killed an Orange Park teenager in 2016 received one-year sentences last Monday after they cooperated with a federal case against Trumaine Muller. Tyler Hamilton and Christopher Williams appeared briefly before...
AutoplayShow ThumbnailsShow CaptionsLast SlideNext SlideStory HighlightsSyringe exchange participants are 5X more likely to seek addiction treatment.Needle exchange helps prevent the spread of hepatitis and HIV.There are fewer dangerous dirty needles littering Louisville because of the syringe exchange program.A tall and slender woman with sunken cheeks...
It’s too early to say whether the 31-per-cent decrease in B.C.’s number of overdose deaths in January due to fentanyl in illicit drugs means that there may be an end in sight to the public health emergency.We can only hope that, finally, policymakers will be...
Two officers from the Phoenix police department were taken to a hospital Tuesday night due to possible exposure to a substance believed to be fentanyl.The Phoenix Police Department confirmed that the two officers came across a “white powdery substance” after they arrested a subject near 43rd Avenue...
(3TV/CBS 5) - Last month, a Scottsdale high schooler almost died.A frantic dad called...
WESTERLY — Two central Connecticut women are facing drug charges after police found them...
The Ottawa Police Service is investigating a spate of suspected drug overdoses, three of which were fatal.Over the course of 14 hours on Monday, police responded to five separate incidents involving six individuals requiring emergency medical treatment. Two of the suspected...
On March 16 the Vermont-based site VTDigger became the latest news platform to share a breathless story about a police officer overdosing via a brief incidental exposure to drugs. In this case Sgt. Brett Flansburg “collected a small quantity of heroin in a plastic baggie”...
(Reuters) - OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and members of the wealthy Sackler family that own the company have reached a $270 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing Purdue of helping fuel the opioid abuse epidemic, people familiar with...
Ottawa police vehicle. Wayne Cuddington / Postmedia Two people died Monday in accidental overdoses involving what police suspect was fentanyl-laced cocaine.In all, police and other responders were called to three incidents over 14 hours involving five people who had apparently taken the tainted narcotics, acting Insp. François D’Aoust...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new CDC report on fentanyl shows fatal overdoses...