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Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEDec. 26, 2018 / 11:13 PM GMTBy Janelle GriffithThe former CEO of a drug company that produced a powerful and addictive painkiller containing fentanyl for cancer patients has...
Researchers have reported that a newly developed vaccine that could combat both opioid dependency and overdose has yielded what appear to be positive results in animal testing. The vaccine, which uses monoclonal antibodies – antibodies made by identical copies of immune cells – appeared to block...
FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made by Insys Therapeutics Inc, is seen in an undated photograph provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama. U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama/Handout via REUTERS...
A Halifax man who was caught with large quantities of fentanyl and cocaine in his apartment has been handed a six-year...
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December 26, 2018TRI-CITY AREA — Christmas came a little early for the family of John Topie, a former teacher and award-winning coach who was sentenced in March, 2017 to 5-15 years in prison for armed robbery.Lapeer County Circuit Court Judge Nick Holowka issued the sentence...
One at a home, the other at a hotel Four days before Christmas, Ocala police officers assisted in reviving two people who suffered drug overdoses. They were separate instances at different locations, with less than half an hour between the two.On Christmas Day, officers again assisted...
Christopher Ladon PopeAn Ocala man who agreed to accept a ride from a Marion County sheriff’s deputy last week became violent and had to be tasered after he was...
By Anna Rumer - December 25, 2018 Mac Miller's mother is counting her blessings during the first holiday season without her son. The late rapper's mom shared a photo of her Christmas Eve dinner...
The past week and a half has been kind of a good-news, bad-news cycle.Last week, the Brennan Center for Justice released its revised preliminary analysis of crime and murder in the nation’s most populous cities for 2018. Good news: The Brennan Center’s “early snapshot” report...
The report titled “Global Transdermal Patch Market” gives a proper knowledge of Global Transdermal Patch industry. Furthermore it also cover-up forecast and analysis for Transdermal Patch market on the Global and regional level. The report analyses Transdermal Patch market on basis of its attractiveness and...
The opioid crisis has caused the Kainai Healing Lodge to open its doors around the clock over the holidays as a safe withdrawal site."We're supporting Indigenous clients suffering from severe withdrawal from substance use — in particular opioids," consultant Shauna Fox said."Our priority is [to focus on] individuals that...
Dec. 24 (UPI) -- In 2018, researchers continued gaining ground on cancer and learning how Alzheimer's disease and other dementias work. They found new ways to make prosthetic limbs feel like real ones, and put into practice methods to reduce hospital-borne infection and attempt to...
LETTER – Opioid crisis not important to government because dead people can’t vote Dear editor, ...
MILTON — Upcoming Santa Rosa County events and activities are as follows. ANNOUNCEMENTSHOLIDAY CLOSURES: MILTON — The following offices have announced their Christmas and New Year's Day closures.All Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County locations will be closed Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 in observance...
The US opioid epidemic is worsening because of rising overdose deaths linked to synthetic opioids, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Synthetic opioids are highly potent painkillers that can be...
As we near the end of 2018, the latest public health data suggests we may be seeing a plateau in the number of opioid deaths. ideastream’s Lecia Bushak joins "Morning Edition" host Amy Eddings with an update on this and other health stories that made...
Jenna Portnoy Reporter covering Virginia, Maryland and D.C. congressional delegations December 24 at 5:07 PM The District on Monday announced a plan aimed at cutting opioid-related...
Manitoba Public Insurance is systematically testing stolen vehicles recovered by police for traces of illicit drugs — including fentanyl — as part of a pilot project to ensure vehicles owners aren't put at risk.The project, which has already been running for several weeks, aims to...
An Abbotsford man who police say was connected to the Lower Mainland gang conflict at the time of his arrest in June 2017 has been convicted of two of the nine drug charges he faced. Cody McClain, 22,...
ALBANY COUNTY, New York (WXXA) - The powerful street drug "Grey Death" , a mix of opioids, appears to be behind a New York inmate's death.After testing...
Indigenous Friendship Centres are taking a different approach to addressing Alberta’s opioid crisis, in part thanks to a government grant that will end in 2019.“The problem is the cash is going to run out … and navigators in four Friendship Centre communities will not exist...
CLOSE For some who are homeless in Palm Springs, heroin addiction has taken over their lives. Zoe Meyers/The Desert SunCelebrating Lost Loved Ones interactive map memorializes those lost to accidental overdoses.(Photo: Hayden, Nicole)While California has historically been less impacted...
The sheriff's department now say a dark gray powder called "grey death" was found in a sock he was wearing. Investigators say the drug has been linked to a number of lethal overdoses in the south. The drug is now headed to the state police lab for...
Fentanyl pills are shown in an undated police handout photo. Supplied / The Canadian Press Indigenous Friendship Centres are taking a different approach to addressing Alberta’s opioid crisis, in part thanks to a government grant that will end in 2019.“The problem is the cash is going to...
December 23, 2018 — The Albany County Sheriff's Office is investigating after an inmate was found dead in his cell yesterday morning.the sheriff's office tells CBS6they found a substance on the inmate that may be new to our area.Corrections officers found 29-year-old Shane Lemperle unresponsive in...
As an overdose crisis began taking shape in Denver, Colo., one of the places the city's leaders looked for answers was north of the border.Coun. Albus Brooks says he hopped on a plane to Vancouver last year before putting together a recent proposal to open...
Editor’s note: This is the No. 7 news story of 2018 as voted on by Tribune Chronicle newsroom staff.WARREN — The opioid crisis has been a growing concern in the community, but in 2018, overdose deaths have been on the decline. In 2017, the number of...
Breaking News EmailsGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.SUBSCRIBEDec. 23, 2018 / 5:52 PM GMTBy Anna SturlaOne of the last times Yvonne Postlethwait-Allen talked to her younger brother, she told him not to visit for Christmas.Her...
In June of 2018, members of the Anne Arundel County Police Department, Southern...
Greenwich Police on Thursday reported that back in September they were summoned to a local hotel on a report of a deceased person. Upon arrival at the hotel police found a deceased man in one of the hotel rooms. Initial on scene investigation led detectives to...
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CONCORD – Authorities on Thursday arrested a total of 15 New Hampshire residents on a variety of federal charges, with many of them related to fentanyl and/or other drugs.Those arrested include: Thomas Blanchette, 42, Rochester – conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 40...
In all, there were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in 2017. Opioids were involved in 67.8%, or 47,600 of those deaths. Of those opioid-involved overdose deaths, 59.8% of them, or 28,466, were due to synthetic opioids. "The opioid overdose epidemic continues to worsen and evolve because...
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Patients are being denied NHS prescriptions for medicinal cannabis despite it now being legal, according to campaigners. Carly Barton claims her experience so far of trying to get the treatment on the NHS since the law change feels “like being blacklisted”. Unable to afford...
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By Ethan WestonDecember 22, 2018Another CDC report from earlier in December found that in 2016 fentanyl surpassed heroin as the most deadly drug used in the U.S.Deaths from synthetic opioids like fentanyl rose by 45 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to a new report by the...
(CNN) – Illegally manufactured fentanyl was the driving force behind a 45.2 percent increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids from 2016 to 2017, according to a new report published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all, there were 70,237 drug overdose deaths...
GOSHEN — Orange County lawmakers unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday calling on the state Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to outlaw variations of fentanyl that were created to skirt the law but have the same effect as the powerful opioid and are just as deadly.The...
Police officers carry and administer naloxone in response to opioid overdoses like other first responders. File photo Increase in suspected overdoses reportedThe Community Drug Strategy has received a report of a higher volume of suspected overdoses in Sudbury.“While we cannot confirm the substance that has caused the...
Illegally manufactured fentanyl was the driving force behind a 45.2% increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids from 2016 to 2017, according to a new report published Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In all, there were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in 2017....
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A three month investigation into drug activity in Northern Ocean county culminated in the arrest of four people, with one remaining at large, from Lakewood and Toms River according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer.The Prosecutor's Narcotics Strike Force, Northern Enforcement Unit, Lakewood Township Police...