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QUINCY, MA — A Boston man was arrested after police said he was selling fentanyl and cocaine in Quincy. Miguel Vasquez, 24, was charged with trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl, distribution of fentanyl, and possession of cocaine with intent...
America's drug war is still here and still going strong. Today Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced her office had persuaded a grand jury to indict two fentanyl dealers for first-degree murder after they allegedly sold opiates to a user who died.Rundle's office said...
DEWITT, N.Y. -- Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer was in DeWitt this afternoon to announce that he is backing a bill that helps police departments purchase high-tech screening tools that detect lethal drugs, such as fentanyl.Schumer...
Prescription fentanyl, a highly potent and immediate-release drug meant for people with advanced cancer who have been on an opioid treatment, has been inappropriately prescribed to people who did not meet the criteria, says a new study by Johns Hopkins University researchers.The researchers, using more...
PureRadiancePhoto / Shutterstock.com Fentanyl is a powerful form of opioid given to patients who are suffering from severe pain. The medication is about 100 times more powerful than morphine. A new study shows that a large number of patients who should not have received something so...
From Staff Reports Published 9:46 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2019 CLOSE This video provides recommendations to law enforcement on how to navigate safely around...
Drug makers and federal regulators dropped the ball in tracking the use of a potentially deadly fast-acting form of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, putting thousands of patients at risk of a fatal overdose, a new study claims. Transmucosal Immediate-Release Fentanyl, or TIRF, drugs are approved for...
My son was the first person to be murdered by fentanyl in this state. It was on Jan. 2, 2015, in Roxbury. He was my only child. I wasn’t even supposed to be able to get pregnant. Now part of my life is gone. Debbie Deagle’s son...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Salisbury man plead guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to possess and to distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, chemicals designed to have similar effects to fentanyl and just as deadly. According to 38-year-old Narada Walls’ plea agreement, he was part of a conspiracy, using...
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SHREVEPORT, La. — Two Texas men were sentenced to 63 months in prison Tuesday for trafficking more than 10 kilograms of...
BALTIMORE, Md. - A Salisbury man is facing more than a decade in prison after he pleaded guilty to dealing fentanyl and fentayl-like products across Maryland's Eastern Shore. One person died from ingesting the drugs in his possession. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Narada Walls,...
My only experience with fentanyl was when I was pregnant. I was on a hospital bed writhing in agony when a nurse injected me with the synthetic opioid commonly used for pain management in laboring women. The drug calmed me and I soon gave birth...
February 19, 2019 Through his attorney, local funeral director Brian Leffler sent a letter to Luzerne County officials this week urging them not to select any funeral director...
The parents of a 1-year-old Lawrence girl who was hospitalized for fentanyl exposure were ordered held without bail Tuesday on drug trafficking charges — after cops said the couple initially lied about where their daughter found the pill. Mcdanner Pereyra and Jennifer Ouch, both 27, of...
Fentanyl exposure has killed one child in Massachusetts and sickened at least two others in what has become a surge of juvenile overdose incidents nationwide. Children are most vulnerable to the drug’s powerful respiratory depression, according to the FDA, which recommends disposing of fentanyl by flushing...
As many as half the patients who were prescribed potent fentanyl painkillers designed for people battling cancer should not have received the drug from doctors, according to a new study released Tuesday that sheds light on opioid oversight. Among the chief findings is that the U.S....
As many as half the patients who were prescribed potent fentanyl painkillers designed for people battling cancer should not have received the drug from doctors, according to a new study released Tuesday that sheds light on opioid oversight. Among the chief findings is that the U.S....
CINCINNATI — Authorities unsealed a federal indictment Tuesday against three Cincinnati men accused of conspiring to distribute fentanyl.Derek "Duke" Ragan, 49; Anthony "Pea Head" Sanderson, 63; and Lawrence "LB" Bell, 66, face between 10 years and life in prison if convicted in the scheme. A...
(CNN) – More than 2 million people in the U.S. are either dependent on or abusing prescription and illegal opioids to treat their pain. Now, a new report says the F.D.A. and drug manufacturers failed to properly monitor the use of one very potent drug.– An...
TUESDAY, Feb. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Drug makers and federal regulators dropped the ball in tracking the use of a potentially deadly fast-acting form of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, putting thousands of patients at risk of a fatal overdose, a new study claims.Transmucosal Immediate-Release...
Public health officials are warning about another new form of fentanyl that’s reportedly been found in Oxford County.Southwestern Public Health issued an alert last week about yellow fentanyl, warning of the new opioid’s potency.Lisa Gillespie, a public health nurse, said Southwestern Public Health learned of...
A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and manufacturers did not take action when evidence emerged that potentially lethal fentanyl products were being inappropriately prescribed to patients. The study will be...
LoadingIt's the sixth report released by the commission, with the last analysis being performed in April 2018.Tests in the ACT in August 2018 revealed the second highest average capital city consumption of heroin, as well as the pharmaceutical opioids fentanyl and oxycodone.It showed in August...
MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - The Madison County coroner says he’s seen a spike in overdoses to start 2019. As of Jan. 1, the count is at seven. “You think that’s not many. Yes it is, seven people who shouldn’t have died,” said Coroner Jimmy...
]]> By Joe Gorman | February 19, 2019 at 12:05a.m. By Joe Gorman jgorman@vindy.com BOARDMAN A grand jury last week tabbed a...
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Even though they appear to have the evidence on camera, a B.C. judge threw out the case against a Calgary man accused of trafficking fentanyl.Sandor Rigo was stopped for speeding by an RCMP officer in April 2018. The officer used a...
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CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (WZTV) -- Investigators had quite the surprise during a drug sting in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Officers executing a search warrant in South Coatesville on Feb. 8 say they recovered (wait for it) heroin, crack cocaine, suspected fentanyl, cash, drug packaging materials and...
Photo: District Attorney Thomas HoganCHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (WZTV) — Investigators had quite the surprise during a drug sting in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Officers executing a search warrant in South Coatesville on Feb. 8 say they recovered (wait for it) heroin, crack cocaine, suspected fentanyl, cash, drug...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — There's a criminal trial happening in Boston that a lot of Western New Yorkers may want to keep...
At a party in Arizona, a small group of people took a few blue pills together, unaware of what was in them. Police were able to save three of them by applying naloxone, but it was too late for a fourth, 19-year-old Aaron Francisco Chavez.Investigators...
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CLOSE U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer spoke in Elmira today pushing for passage of a bill that would provide small police departments with funding for drug testing equipment. Elmira Star-GazetteU.S. Sen. Charles Schumer visited Elmira City Hall on Monday afternoon and called...
NORFOLK, Virginia — Thirty-two year old Antonella Barba, a singing contestant on "American Idol" in 2007, has been charged in connection to a large drug operation in Virginia.Barba, who was also once a contestant on "Fear Factor", was arrested last week. She is charged federally...
A small number of secondary school students required medical support after taking tablets believed to have contained the synthetic opioid Fentanyl. The...
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By Dana Milbank It was a fine day for a national emergency.There was no sign of alarm as administration officials and journalists assembled last Friday in the Rose Garden under a perfect blue sky amid unseasonable warmth. Nor was there any sense of crisis conveyed by President Trump,...
One of the primary tasks for the first responders in Arizona is fighting fentanyl. Every day they are trying to administer the life-saving drug, Naloxone across the Valley, it also goes by the brand name,...
A B.C. Justice recently threw out the case against a man charged with trafficking 27,500 fentanyl pills.In a decision published in January, he said it wasn’t clear if the dog sat or not.And new video, obtained exclusively by Global News, shows...
Wieslawa Piotrowska,1 Wojciech Leppert,1 Mikolaj Majkowicz21Laboratory of Quality of Life Research, Chair and Department of Palliative Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland; 2Institute of Health Sciences, Pomeranian...
WASHINGTON, DC: Last year, Democrats said there was no emergency on our border. As though 70,000 Americans killed by opioids cartels smuggle across our southern border do not constitute a National Emergency. Every year, fifty thousand Americans are dead from heroin. Twenty thousand from fentanyl....
LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — A Florida teen was arrested after police said she brought enough fentanyl to kill more than 1,000...
The Reeling for Recovery ice fishing tournament brought together nearly 200 anglers Saturday while also raising thousands of dollars for heroin and opioid abuse awareness. The event was organized in honor of Aaron Cormier, 31, who died in 2017 after a fentanyl overdose, his childhood...
White House adviser Stephen Miller defended President Trump’s emergency declaration in an interview Sunday and blasted former President George W. Bush of betraying the country by allowing illegal border crossings to increase. Debating the facts surrounding migrants and drugs coming across the border with host Chris...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- A deadly opioid is finding its way into other drugs and causing unexpected overdoses in central Indiana. Local drug harm prevention groups say they are finding fentanyl in nearly every drug but marijuana. The...
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) acknowledged Sunday that President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to secure more funds for a border wall was a fulfillment of...