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Curt Brown @CurtBrown_SCT NEW BEDFORD — A repeat drug offender is being held for a dangerousness hearing after narcotics detectives broke up a fentanyl distribution service Monday, according to court documents.Frank M. Rivera, 32, of 200 State St., Apartment 10, New Bedford, was...
A 58-year-old woman and her husband were shot dead by undercover police during a raid on a suspected Houston drug house that left five officers injured, including two who were shot in the face, officials said Tuesday. Two of the wounded officers remained in critical but...
A sales representative pitching a potentially deadly fentanyl pain reliever to reluctant physicians testified Tuesday that Insys Therapeutics sales efforts included the time she said her “sexually suggestive” boss treated a doctor to a lap dance. “She was sitting on his lap, kind of bouncing around,...
A man who gave a teen girl heroin in exchange for sex has avoided prison time. (File)A 33-year-old man who routinely provided a high school freshman...
PROVIDENCE — A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former West Warwick man to serve five years in prison for his role in trafficking cocaine, psychedelic mushrooms, marijuana and the powerful, potentially deadly painkiller fentanyl throughout Rhode Island and New England.U.S. District Judge John J....
RAHWAY, NJ — A Rahway man admitted to dealing a batch of fentanyl-laced crack cocaine that killed three people and hospitalized numerous others in Union County during the span of one day late last year, acting Union County Prosecutor Michael A....
Wikipedia has of list of more than 500 defunct magazines. Unfortunately, Reader's Digest, isn't on it, although it came close when its parent company RDA Holding Co filed for bankruptcy for the second time in 2013. They should have left well enough alone. Like Jason, the magazine refuses to...
Yarmouth Police Department Meghan E. Coulstring. Yarmouth police detectives and their drug dog Gauge searched a local couple’s home Monday afternoon and seized more than 29 grams of suspected fentanyl and cocaine, along with other contraband, authorities said. Now the suspects, Meghan E. Coulstring, 35, and Deborah...
The Sacklers and members of their company Purdue Pharma have been named in a lawsuit that accuses them of profiting from the opioid crisis by aggressively marketing OxyContin, claims denied by attorneys for the family and Purdue.The suit had been heavily redacted, but on Monday,...
Meghan E. Coulstring, age 35, of West Yarmouth was arrested by Yarmouth Police on multiple drug charges. (YPD booking photo) ...
Carrie Alaine Markis, 46, was arrested last week and was charged with distributing opioids to customers around the United States, reported the Sacramento Bee newspaper. In all, she sold more than 20,000 prescription pills via a marketplace called Farmacy41. She also used three dark websites, the...
Naloxone kit (Free Press file photo) Amid the deadly opioid crisis sweeping London streets, police officers administered an overdose-reversing drug nearly 100 times in seven months last year, new figures show.London police were equipped with the life-saving overdose medication naloxone last spring, joining many frontline emergency...
Brandy Cottrill is shown during a 2017 court appearance on charges related to Operation Big Oak. (Photo by Deanne Johnson) LISBON — Brandy A. Cottrill, a Operation Big Oak defendant, did not receive any additional prison time for her part helping with the drug ring. Cottrill, 27,...
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Author: Emile Dirks, University of Toronto Fentanyl, along with heroin and Oxycodone, is a drug synonymous with the United States’ opioid crisis. More than 28,000 overdose deaths in the United States were linked to this powerful opioid or its analogues in 2017. And it is from...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A lawyer for Insys Therapeutics Inc’s one-time billionaire founder on Monday denied that he had any role in the U.S. opioid crisis as a federal prosecutor told jurors he ran a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray. John...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A lawyer for Insys Therapeutics Inc’s (INSY.O) one-time billionaire founder on Monday rejected claims that her client directed a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray and denied the product was related to the U.S. opioid crisis. John Kapoor,...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Investigations are underway into allegations that a doctor working for an Ohio hospital system ordered inappropriately high doses of pain medication to...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Insys Therapeutics Inc’s one-time billionaire founder directed a vast scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray as opioid addiction was spiraling into a public health crisis, a U.S. prosecutor said on Monday. John Kapoor, the billionaire founder of Insys...
Fraser Health issued a drug alert after a reported counterfeit Xanax pill was found with a drug-checking machine at SafePoint in Surrey. The alert, which was issued on Friday (Jan. 25), says that “reports indicate there may be...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The one-time billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc and four other former executives and managers of the opioid drugmaker will face trial over charges they conspired to pay doctors bribes to prescribe patients an addictive fentanyl spray to boost sales. FILE PHOTO:...
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 22: The shadow of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is cast on a photograph of heroin and fentanyl during a news conference the U.S. Capitol March 22, 2018 in Washington, DC. In an attempt to fight America's opioid epidemic,...
Three patients died after receiving excessive doses of pain medication at Mount Carmel Health System -- after the hospital had been alerted to potential problems with one of its doctors, the Ohio hospital. Three patients died after receiving excessive doses...
One year ago, 27-year-old Amber DeSisti was found frozen outside the Bradford County, Pa., courthouse after she died from an opioid overdose. About a year before, just a few miles away, Ben Kinsman, 28,...
Crime reports are a sampling of incidents responded to by local law enforcement agencies. They are not intended to be all-inclusive. Brimfield • Courtney J. Corrick, 28, of 475 E. Robin St., Conway, Arkansas, was charged with failure to comply with the order of a police officer,...
Silvio PacificoThe Soundview Community Drug Free Coalition. By Alex Mitchell Bronx Times Share on TwitterTweet Share on Facebook Subscribe In efforts to prevent drugs from swamping their community, the Soundview Community Drug Free Coalition is implementing new strategies to thwart adolescent substance abuse. The coalition announced that it’s been awarded $62,000...
Doreen Slocum started doing drugs in her early teens, and - like many - it didn't take long for her to get into the hard ones."I would say probably fully blown heroin by the time I was 19," she said.She has since turned her life...
Six people are facing charges in connection to separate drug busts in the city on Thursday that turned up more than $100,000 worth of drugs and other items, London police said on Friday.In one bust Thursday afternoon, police said the Guns...
ZANESVILLE - Judge Kelly Cottrill postponed the sentencing of a Quaker City woman this week who has a history of drug abuse.Elizabeth Martin (Photo: Submitted)Elizabeth A. Martin, 22, pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine on Nov. 21. Earlier that month, Martin's $100,000 bond was reduced to...
Columbus, Ohio -- Investigations are underway into allegations that a doctor working for an Ohio hospital system ordered inappropriately high doses of pain medication to dozens of patients, leading to the deaths of at least 28 people at two hospitals. The Columbus-area Mount Carmel Hospital System...
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West Virginia Congressman David McKinley is focusing on the opioid issues affecting his state.OHIO VALLEY — West Virginia Congressman David McKinley will serve on three House Energy and Commerce subcommittees.His goal? Stopping the opioid issues affecting his state.In West Virginia, 52 of every 100,000 deaths are...
Editor: Drug overdoses killed more people in the United States than car accidents or guns. In 2017, synthetic opioids such as Fentanyl were involved in nearly 30,000 deaths from 2016-2017. Mexican cartels make large quantities of cheap methamphetamine and deliver it to the United States through the...
The head of a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on opioids has accused the federal agency of looking out for pharmaceutical company income at the tragic cost of public lives, saying the behavior “borders on the criminal.” “As I sit and listen to them in...
A Xanax tablet: A drug-checking machine in Surrey has detected harmful chemicals that could cause overdose or death. www.drugs.com The Fraser Health authority is warning anyone who uses drugs that fake pills are being sold on the street as pharmaceutical Xanax, and are tainted with a synthetic...
Kristopher Lee Harless, 41, New Cumberland, W.Va., pleaded guilty in Common Pleas Court to one count of aggravated possession of drugs for selling fentanyl in March 2017. Harless was initially charged with four counts of aggravated possession of drugs as a part of the Operation...
Fentanyl is 100 times as powerful as morphineThe US Drug Enforcement Administration says fentanyl has been around since the 1960s.It was meant to be a pain-killer for cancer patients.The DEA says fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine, and 50 times more potent than...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video SACRAMENTO -- The arrest of Carrie Markis is coming as a great surprise to those living in her neighborhood. On the outside, she was a quiet registered nurse with a master's degree from...
Drugs and other items seized during police raids on three London homes and a vehicle, January 24,...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 26, 2019, 3:02 PM GMTBy Erik OrtizChristine Allison and her husband, Troy, were watching television in their Columbus, Ohio, home last July when his breathing became erratic....