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Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 13, 2019, 4:05 AM GMTBy Dennis RomeroA man died Saturday and 12 people were hospitalized in what authorities in Northern California described as a mass casualty overdose...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEJan. 13, 2019, 4:05 AM GMTBy Dennis RomeroA man died Saturday and 12 people were hospitalized in what authorities in Northern California described as a mass casualty overdose...
One person is dead and 14 others hospitalized after a mass drug overdose incident in Chico, Calif., that law enforcement said...
DARKE COUNTY – After nearly 200 drug overdoses reported in 2017, Darke County saw the numbers decline for 2018. Though the reduction in OD calls sound encouraging to the community, law enforcement are well aware of the reason…a rise in methamphetamine use. In 2017, fentanyl-laced heroin...
From staff reports Published 3:30 p.m. CT Jan. 11, 2019 Keith Joseph Payne (Photo: Courtesy of Santa Rosa County Jail)A 25-year-old man who admitted he may have been...
TOMS RIVER, NJ — A Toms River man is accused of being high on fentanyl and morphine when he crashed head-on into a woman's car on New Hampshire Avenue last year, killing her, the Ocean County prosecutor's office said Friday.Daniel Reed,...
Two convicted drug traffickers are back behind bars after agents overheard them talking in a holding cell about the motel they had used to store and package a large cache of drugs.According to Jan. 10 federal charges, police pulled over Jesus Rodriguez and Ramon Fabela...
The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey launched a campaign to raise awareness for fentanyl and its dangers. In response to the number of drug overdose deaths reaching over 3,000 in New Jersey, the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey launched a campaign to raise awareness...
Kyle Stucker @KyleStucker DOVER — A Rochester woman was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in state prison Thursday after pleading guilty to sneaking fentanyl into the county jail and providing it to a woman who died after using the drug.Kerry Guay, 32,...
As of Saturday, at 22 days in, the government shutdown over a border wall becomes the longest in U.S. history. And as President Donald Trump dominated the media narrative this week with a prime-time speech from the Oval Office, a trip to the border, and nearly...
Adrienne Tanner is a Vancouver journalist who writes about civic affairs After a unanimous vote to approve a groundbreaking opioid-overdose reduction strategy, including a space to provide opioid users with a safe drug supply, Vancouver’s city council joined hands in the middle of council...
Detectives executed a search warrant at a Canton Street home along with a MetroLEC SWAT team. STOUGHTON — Four people were arrested late Friday afternoon when detectives executed a search warrant along with a SWAT team.The arrests were the result of an investigation by Stoughton police...
Jon Oxenford, 25, of East Palo Alto BY EMILY MIBACHDaily Post Staff Writer An East Palo Alto man has been charged with selling fentanyl to a San Carlos woman who later died from the drug, a prosecutor said yesterday. Jon Oxenford, 25, is believed to have sold 32-year-old...
Baby overdoses on fentanyl - Video - CityNews Montreal Baby overdoses on fentanyl A Sherbrooke...
69 News 69 News BETHLEHEM, Pa. - After arresting two suspected customers, Bethlehem police on Thursday arrested an Allentown man and seized hundreds of heroin...
It's not clear why women are becoming disproportionately affected. (iStock)The drug overdose death rate among women in the U.S. has greatly increased, according to data released...
Starbucks employees are worried about the danger of being stuck with used syringes discarded in store bathrooms. More than 3,700 people had signed a petition requesting safe syringe disposal in the stores’ bathrooms as of Friday. The petition cited fear of exposure to infectious diseases like...
Perry Botto and family members gather in December to remember the lives of his daughter Jeanette Botto and her mother Teresa. Jeanette died of an overdose in 2016, and her mother killed herself while grieving months later. (Cal Cary/For The Washington Post) ...
BEL AIR, Md. (WJZ) — Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler is asking for politicians to stop the bickering to to secure the U.S. southern border. Gahler believes the southern border is the source of drugs — heroin and other opioids particularly — that have been “creeping...
Police officers seized thousands of opioid tablets and several kilograms worth of crystal meth and cocaine when they raided an apartment in Grande Prairie, Alta., earlier this week, the RCMP said on Thursday.“Grande Prairie RCMP executed a search warrant on an...
LAREDO, Texas (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — San Antonio stations KABB and WOAI along with Sinclair Broadcast Group hosted the second town hall meeting in a 12-part series to raise awareness of America's deadly opioid crisis.The Thursday event took place just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border in...
President Trump speaks to the media as he tours the U.S. border with Mexico at the Rio Grande on Jan. 10 in McAllen, Tex. (Evan Vucci/AP) Watching the struggle over funding for a border...
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MILLBURN, NJ — In response to the crisis that has claimed thousands of New Jersey residents in the past four years alone, the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) has launched a media campaign to make families aware of the fentanyl outbreak in New...
A chief in charge of emergency medical services at the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District was charged Thursday with crimes including embezzlement after he was caught stealing narcotics from the agency, officials said. ...
SAN CARLOS — Authorities have arrested a man they say supplied the widely abused painkiller fentanyl to a woman who died of an overdose last fall, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. But while sheriff’s investigators sought to implicate the suspect in the death,...
Shannon McGuigan (Photo: Photo provided)MOUNT HOLLY - An alleged drug dealer has been indicted in connection with the fatal overdose of a Pemberton Township woman.Shannon McGuigan, 33, is accused of selling heroin laced with fentanyl to the 26-year-old victim in May 2017, said the Burlington County Prosecutor's...
More than $200,000 in drugs, cash and firearms were seized during a drug sweep at several locations on Aug. 7 (Photo: Shelly Schultz)ZANESVILLE - One of eight individuals involved in a major drug trafficking raid was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week.Monte E. Smith,...
More than $200,000 in drugs, cash and firearms were seized during a drug sweep at several locations on Aug. 7 (Photo: Shelly Schultz)ZANESVILLE - One of eight individuals involved in a major drug trafficking raid was sentenced to 15 years in prison last week.Monte E. Smith,...
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As the number of drug overdose deaths continues to rise, the social awareness of the epidemic has as well. Even celebrities are opening about their addiction issues. The drug epidemic, however, has affected far more people than previously thought. Death by drug overdose is classically more...
America's drug crisis is taking a deadly toll on a group you might not expect: middle-aged women. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that drug overdose deaths among females aged 30 to 64 have skyrocketed in recent years. According to...
WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) – The executive director of a black civil rights group Wednesday said a prominent Democratic donor is not being prosecuted after two men were found dead in his West Hollywood apartment because the victims were gay black men. A man – identified as 55-year-old...
While traditional criminal organizations have widened their portfolios dramatically in recent years, drug trafficking remains the most important earner in the region. And with opioid consumption surging and cocaine production at a record high, the underworld is...
WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) – The executive director of a black civil rights group Wednesday said a prominent Democratic donor is not being prosecuted after two men were found dead in his West Hollywood apartment because the victims were gay black men. A man – identified as 55-year-old...
At high doses opioids, particularly fentanyl, causes rapid cessation of breathing, respiratory failure and death, the physiologic sequence by which people commonly succumb from an unintentional opioid overdose. Yet most times death can be prevented through early detection and timely intervention if naloxone is administered...
Charlottesville resident Jordan McNeish knows the perils of opioid addiction first-hand. Three years ago, he was on an East Coast road trip with his ex-girlfriend, and the plan was to end up in Maine. But their first stop was Baltimore, to buy heroin. McNeish, 29, says...
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 9, 2019 / In this post, Dr. Najib Babul, an experienced pharmaceutical scientist, drug developer, inventor and consultant discusses the use of fentanyl test strips (FTS) to reduce opioid overdose complications and death. More than 2.1...
Rates of substance use disorder have continued to grow in the United States and studies have shown that 10-15% of health care professionals abuse substances at some point in their lifetime. Many individuals working in the health care field are dealing with patients, so these...
BOSTON (AP) — The former chief executive of a company that produces a potentially addictive fentanyl spray pleaded guilty Wednesday to scheming with his colleagues to bribe doctors into increasing prescriptions to boost sales. Former Insys Therapeutics CEO Michael Babich also agreed to cooperate with federal...
by Jessica Stringfield, WKRCThree arrested for outstanding warrants, possession of fentanyl, meth (Butler County Sheriff's Office)CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Three people were arrested Jan. 8 on outstanding warrants and drug possession. During the traffic stop at Park Ave. and F St. in Hamilton, Butler County Police...
U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier sentenced Anthony John Tozer, 33, on Tuesday in Fargo to 300 months in confinement after pleading guilty to a controlled substance crime that resulted in the death of Faith Burns, a 20-year-old woman who died Dec. 17, 2017, after ingesting...
BOSTON (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Wednesday to engaging in a scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe an addictive opioid medication and has agreed to become a government witness. FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug...
A new software system for smartphones can quickly and unobtrusively detect early signs of opioid overdoses, according to a new study. The software successfully identified respiratory depression (a hallmark symptom of overdose) in opioid users in an injection facility and during simulated overdoses (mimicked by...