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MARTINSBURG — A federal grand jury has indicted 33 individuals for their alleged...
MARTINSBURG — Two South Carolina women were indicted this month in federal court...
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Two South Carolina women were charged this month by a...
The synthetic opioid, typically used to tranquilize elephants, is considered to be 100 times stronger than fentanyl. BROCKTON — A city teenager is facing charges of trafficking carfentanil, a synthetic opioid that is 100 times more power than fentanyl.In total, police say they seized more than...
(Reuters) - Oklahoma’s top court on Monday declined to delay a landmark trial set for May in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit accusing OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and two other drugmakers of helping fuel an opioid abuse and overdose epidemic in the state. FILE PHOTO: The...
Learn the Answer in a New Webinar From Manatt and the AMA, “Ending the Opioid Epidemic: Leading-Edge Responses and Next Steps.” Click Here to Register Free—and Join Us on March 27 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET. Between 1999 and 2017, more than 700,000 people...
TUCSON, Ariz. – Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before falling asleep forever. He became yet another victim killed by a flood of illicit fentanyl smuggled from Mexico by the Sinaloa...
In an unexpected twist, the sentencing in a landmark fentanyl case is on hold. “There is no justice.” Denise Lane,...
BROCKTON (CBS) — An 18-year-old man from Brockton was arrested after Mass. State Police said they found about $42,000 worth of fentanyl in his bedroom. Etimilson Cabral was arrested Friday. The State Police Gang Unit initially obtained a warrant for Cabral’s car and anyone in it....
The unfortunate news is out. According to official statistics, Fentanyl related deaths have increased by 1,000% from 2011 to 2016. The largest increase ever recorded in US history. The numbers are alarming and call for a cause for concern. If no preventive measures are taken,...
BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A Brockton man is facing drug trafficking and weapons charges after state police say they found thousands of dollars worth of fentanyl and carfentanil during a search of his home. After a drug investigation by the State Police Gang Unit led to...
Cocaine has taken a backseat during the opioid epidemic, but officials say in the past year they've seen an uptick in cocaine activity. QUINCY — In the wake of three people charged with cocaine trafficking in Weymouth and Quincy last week in separate investigations, officials say...
Illicit drugs, rather than prescription medications, have accounted for an increasing proportion of deaths from opioids. Heroin- and fentanyl-related deaths have been rising much faster than the medication-related ones, and more and more opioid abusers are starting with heroin. Patients...
Authorities are investigating the case of an Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee accused of slipping LSD into his co-workers’ water bottles. A 19-year-old man is in custody in connection with the incident, which allegedly took place at an Enterprise Rent-A-Car location in Arnold, Missouri, last Thursday, March 21,...
How The Global Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Market Will Behave? A research report on “Global Fentanyl Transdermal Patches Market 2018 Industry Research Report” is being published by Market.biz. This is a key document as far as the clients and industries are concerned to not only understand...
To begin in early May for 3 accused Trial dates have been set for a mother and two others accused of contributing to the drug overdose death of a 2-year-old boy from Ironton. The trial dates will be May 6, 7, and 8 and will be in...
3 min read643 views and 10 shares Posted March 22, 2019 Lebanon A 35 year old Lebanon man has been cited for Public Drunkenness and Transportation, Possession of Consumption in Public Places on 3-19-19 at 1941 hours on the 100 block...
Fentanyl overdose rates have been rising at very sharp rates among minorities, including African Americans and Hispanic Americans, according to new data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data looked at fentanyl overdose rates between 2011 and 2016. Researchers found that...
A Nickerson man busted with pounds of suspected meth and hundreds of pills of fentanyl in his home near Nickerson High School faces more than 16 years in prison after pleading guilty in the case on Friday.Michael D. Curran, 57, pleaded guilty to possession with...
LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. - Local leaders are banding together to take aim at a killer.A new report says fentanyl deaths in the US have skyrocketed 1,000...
CHESHIRE — A local man was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison Friday for supplying a mixture of heroin and fentanyl to a Southington woman who fatally overdosed.Thomas Halleran, 37, will also serve six years of supervised released following his sentence. He was...
Three police officers were hospitalized early Friday for fentanyl exposure received while arresting a couple on drug charges outside a Needham hotel. Needham police were conducting a routine check outside a hotel on B Street around 12:50 a.m. when they encountered a suspicious vehicle. During the...
According to a Thursday, March 21 report from the Centers for Disease Control, deaths from the synthetic opioid fentanyl increased by more than 1,000 percent from 2011 to 2016. As one might imagine given the problem of opioid addiction in Guilford County, fentanyl and other...
Between 2011 and 2016, drug overdose deaths in the United States involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl dramatically increased, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The number of annual drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl was stable at 1,663...
Drug overdose deaths linked to fentanyl saw a sharp rise from 2013 through 2016, doubling each year, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).While the number of fentanyl-related overdose deaths was roughly the same, slightly more than 1,600,...
Deaths from the drug fentanyl in the United States climbed more than 1,000 percent from 2011 to 2016, according to a report released Thursday. The number of fatalities involving the powerful synthetic opioid was relatively stable in 2011 and 2012, with roughly 1,600 deaths each of...
By 2016, fentanyl-related drug overdoses among blacks and Hispanics had started to catch up to non-Hispanic whites. The death rate for blacks rose 140.6 percent annually, on average, to 5.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2016, and Hispanics’ rate rose 118.3 percent, to 2.5. Whites remain...
Packages containing fentanyl and carfentanil are stored in the detention room at the JFK International Airport Mail Facilities Federal Inspection Site after being discovered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in this file photo. (Photo: Seth Harrison, The Journal News)An increasing number of African Americans...
3 Needham police officers hospitalized for fentanyl exposure during investigation Updated: 6:19 AM EDT Mar 22, 2019 Hide Transcript Show Transcript SCENE RIGHT NOW. JOSH: IT ALL STARTED WITH A SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE IN A PARKING AREA AT THE RESIDENCE INN. HAZMAT TEAM IS OVER THERE, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT...
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – He was 20 years old and his father said he still can’t believe...
Share This Story!Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutSuspicious substance found at North Kitsap death scene prompted HazMat responseA Washington State Patrol Crime Lab team and a state National Guard hazardous material team ran field tests that were negative for...
BALTIMORE — A Hagerstown man who ran a drug-trafficking ring that supplied fentanyl...
CLOSE Check out the latest crime happening in the area with our crime wrap up. Ashley Books, abooks@gannett.comA Hagerstown, Md. man will spend more than a decade behind bars for his involvement in distributing hundreds of grams of fentanyl in the...
CLOSE The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report more Americans are dying from drug overdoses than ever. WochitThree men, including one from Cedar Grove and another from Belleville, were arrested as part of a large bust in...
The number of fatalities related to the drug held fairly steady between 2011 and 2012, hovering around 1,600 deaths in both those years. In 2013, the number increased to just over 1,900 fatalities. Beginning in 2014, though, fentanyl-related deaths began to double each year. In...
The death rate among African Americans from fentanyl-involved drug overdoses rose 141 percent each year, on average, from 2011 to 2016, and the death rate for Hispanics rose 118 percent in that period every year on average. Altogether, the records revealed that more than 36,000...
GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) - Spreading awareness and understanding when it comes to...
Local police seized almost $50,000 worth of fentanyl and cocaine from a Mid-City home Tuesday. The Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) served a search warrant for a residence near the intersection of 11th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard and recovered nine ounces of fentanyl, about...
CLOSE He's seen addiction from both sides. Bill Kinkle built a successful career as a nurse but lost it all to opioid use disorder. Now he's using his experiences to help others. Jasper Colt, USA TODAYTwo more people who were...
CLOSE If you want help for addiction, go to a Cincinnati Health Center and they'll guide you to expert treatment. Terry DeMio, tdemio@enquirer.comOhio Attorney General Dave Yost has endorsed a proposed law that would increase penalties for aggravated...
NEWS RELEASE GUELPH POLICE SERVICE **************************** In response to the ongoing opioid crisis, members of the Guelph Police Service Drug Unit have continued to address this issue through enforcement. This investigation began in January of 2019, specifically targeting the trafficking...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEMarch 20, 2019, 8:30 AM GMTBy Laura StricklerWASHINGTON — A former senior U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official who testified before Congress on the government's efforts to stop the...
Juan remembers the first time he went to a poppy field as a young child with his dad. His father was taught how to farm the crop by Juan’s grandfather. Now Juan’s in his mid-50s, and his son has taken charge of the hectare of...
TUCSON, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - One police department in Arizona has become the go-to...
A bill to make sales of a synthetic opioid that precede an overdose...
On March 19, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) used its drug-contamination-alerts system to issue a rare warning about cocaine.“Powder cocaine tested at Insite found to contain cocaine and fentanyl,” the text message reads. “Sold in East Van as white powder with brown chunks.”According...
There are still nearly three people dying daily in the province from illicit drug overdoses but B.C. officials say they're hopeful the province is turning the tide in combating the opioid crisis. Ninety...
Overdoses led to 90 deaths in the first month of 2019, with more than one-in-ten of those caused by carfentanil – a deadly opioid 100 times stronger than illicit fentanyl. The BC Coroners Service said Tuesday that there...
More methamphetamine is pouring into the U.S. through Mexican drug cartels, The Daily Caller reported Monday.“A drug-tracking system from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),” The Caller wrote. “Indicates that a total of 347,807 law enforcement meth seizures were submitted to various labs across the country in 2017,...