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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid so potent that a miniscule amount equivalent to several grains of saltcan cause afataloverdose. Yet it's difficult for people who use drugs to detect, which presents a major public health hazard given how commonly fentanyl...
Three men who ran a dark web business which sold potentially deadly drugs around the world have been jailed. Three men including...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Texas man arrested while passing through the Cleveland area in late December was indicted this week after authorities found pounds of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine in a car he was driving, officials said.Roland...
Three men who ran a dark web business which sold potentially deadly drugs around the world were told their actions had brought “misery” as they were jailed.Lee Childs, 45, Jake Levene, 23, and Mandy Lowther, 22, were told by a Leeds Crown Court judge that...
North Andover Police Department North Andover police arrested a 24-year-old alleged drug dealer from Boston and his alleged customer inside a restroom at the North Andover Mall on Thursday, the department said. Luis Gonzalez, 24, a Dominican national who has a Boston address but has been...
Reviving someone from an overdose is just one step in tackling complicated addiction issues.When emergency responders administer Narcan, the antidote to an opioid or opiate overdose, they only lift a patient out of a dangerous overdose state, but there is more to treating addiction than...
Christine Allison's husband, Troy, died after being given a 1,000 microgram dose of fentanyl ordered by Dr. William Husel after going to Mount Carmel West in July. He died at age 44. Christine Allison told her husband, Troy, that she would see him at Mount Carmel...
SPRINGFIELD — Jurors in the manslaughter case arising from a Westfield overdose spent the first part of Thursday hearing what was said in texts between the two defendants and the woman who died.Daryn M. Sampson, 35, and...
JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Jackson County Sheriff's officials got the call Tuesday one of their own had been exposed to the opioid Fentanyl during a field test. "I later started hearing some different kind of traffic where he was radioing back and I knew something...
ORANGE PARK, Fla. — An Orange Park man is facing a maximum penalty of life in prison after a jury found...
Dan Scanlan @scanlan_dan Thursday Jan 17, 2019 at 6:32 PM A 34-year-old Orange Park man was found guilty Wednesday of selling fentanyl that killed 18–year–old Ariell Jade Brundige on Nov. 10, 2016, according to the State Attorney's OfficeA federal jury found Trumaine “Lucky” Muller guilty of one count of distributing...
The synthetic opioid fentanyl is most likely responsible for a cluster of overdoses in one Chico, California house. One person died after overdosing and four are in critical condition; a total of 12 people were taken to the hospital. According to NPR, Chico police are fairly...
DuPage County deaths in 2018 caused by fentanyl alone increased by 76 percent over the previous year, according to...
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A man has been charged with child endangerment after his 14-month-old son arrived unresponsive at a hospital with fentanyl and cocaine in his system and was resuscitated with a treatment used after drug overdoses. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 38-year-old Gayron...
DuPage County deaths in 2018 caused by fentanyl alone increased by 76 percent over the previous year, according to...
Share This Story!Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutBaby girl found dead in an Amazon warehouse bathroom in Arizona, police sayA baby was found dead Wednesday night in the bathroom of an Amazon warehouse in west Phoenix. Police responded to...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 17, 2019, 9:38 AM GMTBy Dennis RomeroIn Fresno, California, last week three men bought and used what they believed to be cocaine. Within two minutes of snorting...
A toddler in Michigan died after ingesting an "extraordinary level" of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that's far more potent than heroin, authorities say. Ava Floyd, 18 months old, died on Dec. 25. The prosecutor's office in the Detroit suburb of Macomb County said that the...
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Partners Against Narcotics Trafficking (PANT) arrested 16 individuals in 2018 who were either caught in possession of fentanyl, or are believed to have been selling the deadly narcotic. Of those, six have received at least a partial...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 16, 2019, 11:37 PM GMTBy Corky SiemaszkoLeaning on her cane, Joan Caleodis stepped gingerly into history on Wednesday as one of the first people to legally purchase...
Officials in Oxford County are warning about a toxic batch of blue fentanyl that is causing people to "drop" right after use. The alert comes from Southwestern Public Health, which oversees Elgin and Oxford Counties as well as the City of St. Thomas. The "very toxic fentanyl"...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 17, 2019, 2:26 AM GMTBy Erik Ortiz and Doha MadaniA widower who lost his wife to a lethal dosage of pain medication while she was hospitalized last...
Brockton police on Tuesday raided a local party bus company, seizing more than 330 grams of cocaine and fentanyl and arresting three suspects, including a manager, on drug charges in an operation hailed as a bust that made the city “a lot safer.”Brockton and State...
Police say they arrested three people and seized cocaine and fentanyl during a raid on a Massachusetts party bus rental company.Police executing a search warrant raided Tex Era Rental LLC in Brockton on Tuesday and say they found 270 grams of cocaine and 64 grams...
Three people are dead and two are arrested following several fentanyl-related deaths in Camden County last year.The Georgia Bureau of Investigation...
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On Nov. 8, three people were found dead within hours in one South Georgia county, all from fentanyl and cocaine toxicity.After arresting one man in late December on charges of felony murder, the GBI has now arrested...
This photo shows a home of Dr. William Husel in Dublin, Ohio, on Jan. 15, 2019. The intensive care doctor ordered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that...
A US couple has been charged in the opioid overdose of their 18-month-old daughter who died on Christmas Day. An autopsy revealed little Ava Floyd had ingested up to 15 times the amount of fentanyl authorities had ever seen in the Michigan county in the last...
LOWELL — A Lowell man was arrested on fentanyl trafficking charges Saturday at Edge Merrimack River, an apartment building catering to UMass students located across the street from Lowell High School. Lowell police searched the 27-year-old Jonathan Gacek’s unit in the building at 1 Merrimack Plaza,...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 15, 2019, 9:50 PM GMTBy David K. LiThree adults — including the parents of a 5-month-old baby — were rushed to the hospital after they overdosed inside...
Toronto Public Health has issued a warning about illicit drugs being sold in the city as either fentanyl or heroin causing what the city agency calls "concerning" symptoms.People who have ingested the drugs have reported having "horrifying and traumatizing" experiences, according to the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society.It...
Detroit parents are charged with murder after their 18-month-old daughter died on Christmas Day from fentanyl poisoning at their home 'where they were packaging drugs for sale'Antonio Floyd , 28, and 27-year-old Shantanice...
This photo shows a home of Dr. William Husel in Dublin, Ohio, on Jan. 15, 2019. The intensive care doctor ordered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that...
A 27-year-old man was found dead in his home last February, the victim of a fentanyl overdose.Nearly a year later, a Warren County jury on Tuesday convicted the dealer who sold the victim the fatal dose of...
This undated booking photo released by Macomb County Sheriff's Office shows Antonio Floyd, 28, and Shantanice Barksdale, 27, who have been charged in the opioid overdose of their 18-month-old daughter who died on Christmas Day. ...
FOX NEWS - Two Michigan parents were charged Tuesday with the murder of their infant daughter, who prosecutors say had an “extraordinary” amount of fentanyl in her system at the time of her death.Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith announced second-degree murder charges for Antonio...
Ohio State Promo (Photo: Shane Music)COLUMBUS, Ohio – An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced...
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