US Mailing System Key to Future Fentanyl Trafficking Prevention
The US mailing system is one of the most significant fentanyl trafficking routes ...
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The US mailing system is one of the most significant fentanyl trafficking routes ...
CLOSE Alexis Pleus of Truth Pharm demonstrates how to administer Narcan to save a person from dying of a heroin, opioid overdose Kate Collins / Staff videoIn January, the Elmira Police Department and New York State Police got a confidential...
Esther Gomez De Aguilar. (Photo: Pinal County Sheriff's Office)Pinal County Sheriff's Office said it arrested a woman, who was disguised as a nun, and her husband on suspicion of trafficking $90,000 worth of fentanyl.The woman, Esther Gomez De Aguilar, and her husband, Jose Aguilar Diaz, of Yuma were initially...
Norwalk Police have arrested a man from Bridgeport who is accused of selling heroin laced with fentanyl.In January of 2019, officers with the Special Services Division learned that a man was selling heroin laced with fentanyl in Norwalk, police said.An investigation was initiated and multiple...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of migrant families crossing the southwest border is again breaking records, and the crush is overwhelming border agents and straining facilities, officials said. More than 76,000 migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, more than double the number from the same...
Maryland officials have a new tool in their fight against fatal drug overdoses: test strips that can detect fentanyl, the incredibly powerful synthetic opioid that is now the top killer drug in Pennsylvania.Maryland officials plan to distribute 60,000 of kits by the end of...
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The Opioid Crisis has caused problems for families in communities from coast to coast.Opioid addiction doesn't discriminate and can affect people from all races, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds.It often starts with a painkiller prescription, according to Dr. Harry Duran of the Las...
FORT DODGE - An Iowa police officer survived being exposed to what was likely fentanyl while on the job.Body camera footage from a police officer responding to a scene involving the powerful opioid shows another officer...
Did Daniel Chesshire knowingly traffic in fentanyl? That was one of the questions defence attorney Garry MacDonald asked the jury to ponder during his opening statement in a South Delta fentanyl trial on Tuesday morning in New Westminster Supreme Court. Chesshire is facing...
Speech to Text for Fentanyl Fells Law Officer Below is the closed-captioning text associated with this video. Since this uses automated speech to text spelling and grammar may not be accurate. recovering after coming into contact with a substance believed to be fentanyl. now á we're looking...
Two major fentanyl busts in New York and New Jersey are bringing more attention to the growing opioid epidemic gripping America -- and a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent who helped lead the operations explained Tuesday how the drug is “a game changer.”“It’s so lucrative...
Louisville Metro's syringe exchange sites are now distributing test strips that can detect the presence of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl in other drugs such as heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine. The Department of Health and Wellness' Syringe Exchange Program began handing out the fentanyl test...
NEAR ELOY (3TV/CBS 5) – A woman who was apparently dressed as a...
FreeImages.com/Jason Morrison FreeImages.com/Jason Morrison More Crime Stories MADISON, Wis. - A VA hospital nurse was sentenced to three years of probabtion in federal court Tuesday for stealing fentanyl,...
CLOSE Are you concerned that a loved one is using drugs? Here are some signs that they may be in the throes of addiction. WochitTwo men face drug conspiracy charges after they were found Saturday at a rest stop...
Law enforcement authorities say they busted a large-scale fentanyl operation that had enough drugs to kill 10 million people – more than the entire New Jersey population. And it was uncovered at a rest stop. Two men were charged this week...
Officials in Broome County say they’re just trying to keep drug addicts alive until they are able to seek help.A recent surge in overdoses and overdose deaths in Broome County is resulting in an expert being brought in to teach people who work with people...
Ellen Ciurczak, Hattiesburg American Published 5:05 a.m. CT March 5, 2019 CLOSE Officials with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics say fentanyl-laced illegal drugs...
CLOSE Booze isn't just featured in commercials, it's pretty much gotten to the point where it's featured in your favorite TV show or movie. Here's how alcohol advertising affects minors. USA TODAYThe number of deaths from alcohol, drugs and...
SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Drug users are being urged to not use alone and keep naloxone nearby after first responders dealt with at least a dozen overdoses in Surrey on Sunday. Dr. Shovita Padhi with...
After five days of witness testimony in New Westminster Supreme Court, the Crown has wrapped its case in a South Delta fentanyl trial. On Monday afternoon Crown prosecutor Adrienne Switzer rested the Crown’s case against Daniel Chun Chesshire, who is facing one count...
Two men are in federal custody after they were allegedly caught with more than 40 pounds of an opioid up to 50 times more powerful than heroin.Luis Aponte, 48, and Denny Diaz, 29, were charged with one count of conspiracy to possess fentanyl with...
(WBNG) — One local organization is hoping to fight overdose deaths in a new way. “For the parents out there who’ve lost a loved one, that’s a permanent condition, if somebody dies, they’re gone forever,” said Truth Pharm’s Executive Director Alexis Pleus. She says in the last...
This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) Copyright by WOODTV - All rights reserved This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the...
The lawsuit against Purdue Pharma filed by the attorney general in Massachusetts amounts to "oversimplified scapegoating" unsupported by the law, the company said in a new court filing. In a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the Sackler family - owners of Purdue Pharma, the...
Five Wilmington, Del., firefighters and...
Guelph police say officers seized over $28,000 worth of drugs from a north-end motel on Friday.Officers were dealing with an incident when the narcotics were noticed, leading to the arrest of a 22-year-old Toronto man and a 17-year-old Guelph girl. READ MORE:...
In a January 8 prime-time border security speech so unpersuasive that only 2 percent of Quinnipiac poll respondents said it changed their minds, President Donald Trump did the country a rare rhetorical favor. By thoroughly blurring the lines between immigration and drug policy—at one point...
Growing up in the farmlands around Dayton, south-west Ohio, a teenage Randy Carmack knew many “little old ladies” whose cupboards contained powerful painkillers. “One had a leg amputation and she didn’t like her fentanyl patches, so I bought her prescription from her granddaughter,” he said. Carmack...
More than two months after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) released a far-reaching plan to cut opioid overdose deaths in half by late 2020, key programs described in the plan have not been launched, according to city officials and service providers. The anti-opioid...
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium, Lucy Inglis, Pegasus Books, February 2019, 464 pages. Opioid drugs—including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioids—were responsible for nearly 50,000 overdose deaths in 2017. America is awash in them, whether stolen from a friend’s medicine cabinet, smuggled over the border,...
A powerful opioid, fentanyl, is showing up in cocaine, benzos, and molly across the Midwest and causing more accidental deaths than ever. It is extremely unlikely that a physician will ever advise you to use prescription medications or illicit drugs for recreational use, not as...
Early this year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers performed a routine inspection on a truck about to enter the United States through the Nogales crossing near Tucson, Arizona. When curious alterations in the floor of the vehicle’s cargo section were discovered, sniffer...
BURLINGTON, N.C. — Burlington Police charged a man after a baby was exposed to cocaine Sunday morning.Police say an 8-month-old was...
Share This Information With Others6 1 7SharesDETROIT, MI – Two men from California, who were arrested at a condo in Novi in 2017, were sentenced for their role in a drug conspiracy that resulted in, what was at the time, the third largest fentanyl seizure in the...
Federal drug enforcement agents said a raid in a suburban New York home Friday netted enough fentanyl to kill nearly 2...
After several years of slow-but-steady increases and two years of sharp climbs, drug overdose deaths in Southwestern Pennsylvania declined by more than 40 percent last year. Preliminary reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the first quarter of 2018 suggest it is a...
State health officials plan to distribute thousands of kits by the end of the month that will allow...
March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and law enforcement officers recovered enough fentanyl to kill nearly 2 million people during a raid in a residential home in New York. Five kilograms, which is just over 11 pounds of the synthetic opioid, and 6...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WJCB)-- Chrishaune Latez Lee, 22, was taken into custody Thursday after Alachua County deputies say he was in possession of various illegal substances. According to his arrest report, deputies pulled over a vehicle on Southwest 20th Avenue in Gainesville. Lee was in the back...
A Wayne man initially arrested on a minor drug charge is facing much more...
Share This Story!Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutDEA warns pills being sold on El Paso streets as oxycodone actually contain fentanylThe DEA's El Paso Division, which covers West Texas and New Mexico, said the pills have markings similar to...
Five people are arrested in New York 'drug mill' raid where the DEA seizes enough fentanyl to kill TWO MILLION people and discovers the drugs concealed in furnitureDEA agents and Greenburgh police raided...