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FOXBOROUGH, MA — A man accused last year of setting up a fentanyl mill in his apartment has a new warrant out for his arrest, after police said he skipped his court date. Stephan Pena, 24, orginally from Miami but living...
A new study is questioning the use of antipsychotics in children and young adults for mental health conditions other than psychosis, as doing so raises the risk of unexpected death. Researchers examined data from about 250,000 children and young people (ages five to...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A Detroit, Michigan man pled guilty yesterday to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Octavius Ellis, 23, entered a guilty plea today to knowingly and intentionally distributing fentanyl. Stuart praised the work of the Huntington Police Department. “Fentanyl is...
(CNN) -- Fentanyl is now the most commonly used drug involved in overdoses. According to a new government report put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl overdoses skyrocketed 113% between 2013 and 2016. Use of the synthetic opioid has soared over the...
According to a new report from health officials, Fentanyl – a synthetic opioid drug, is surpassing heroin as cause of drug overdose deaths in the United States. The report was released 12th of December 2018 in the...
Top Local Stories KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) - Fentanyl is now the most frequently found drug in overdose deaths in the U.S., surpassing heroin, according to National Vital Statistics report published this week by the Centers for...
GREENVILLE, SC - According to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), fentanyl is the deadliest drug in the United States. "This could be pure fentanyl, this...
ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) - "I'll remember that day for the rest of my life," Robert McCleary said. Robert McCleary lives at the Outcast Sober Living and Substance Abuse Ministry. He says it was Christmas Eve nearly eight years ago when he overdosed on fentanyl. "My wife...
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Delta parents are being warned once again about the dangers of fentanyl, after fake Xanax pills brought to school by a student were found to contain fentanyl. According to a joint letter to parents from the Delta School...
Partners Against Narcotics Trafficking detectives (PANT) have made more drug arrests, including two involving fentanyl. Over the past several months, PANT received information identifying 53-year-old Prescott Valley resident Todd...
PANT continues effort to rid Yavapai County of Drug Plague - Notable Cases Highlighted FENTANYL DEALER ARRESTED - Over the past several months, Partner’s Against Narcotics Trafficking detectives (PANT) received information identifying 53-year-old Prescott Valley resident Todd Bearden...
Deputies arrested a Long Beach man and seized roughly $200,000 worth of "China white," or heroin laced with fentanyl, in Thousand Oaks on Dec. 12, 2018. (Credit: Ventura County Sheriff's Department) Deputies arrested a Long Beach man and seized roughly...
At 9:48 p.m. on Thursday, Jose Jimenez became the 25th person to be executed in the United States in 2018. Jimenez was convicted of a 1992 murder; his execution had originally been scheduled for...
CLOSE Here's a breakdown of the stories right now at www.democratandchronicle.com. Virginia Butler, Democrat and ChroniclePolice lights(Photo: franckreporter, Getty Images)In a series of morning raids Wednesday, federal authorities arrested eight Rochester residents accused of roles in a major drug-trafficking...
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CDC finds more overdoses involve fentany More News Headlines LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) - Fentanyl is now the leading cause of...
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Joanne Peterson didn’t need the federal government to tell her that fentanyl is now more deadly than heroin. “It’s been the deadliest drug for a long time,” said Joanne, who runs Taunton-based Learn to Cope, a statewide support network for families grappling with a loved one’s...
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Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - The Centers for Disease Control said...
BALTIMORE — Officials sent out a big warning Wednesday to anyone who sells fentanyl in Baltimore City: Your case could end up in federal court with federal sentencing guidelines.Fentanyl deaths have sharply and quickly increased in Maryland, so much so that leaders from the top...
In this Oct. 22, 2018 file photo, a fentanyl user holds a needle near Kensington and Cambria in Philadelphia. Suicides and drug overdoses helped lead a surge in U.S. deaths last year, and drove a continuing decline in how long Americans are expected to live....
5 Investigates: Trial begins in alleged kickback conspiracy involving fentanyl spray Updated: 6:02 PM EST Dec 12, 2018 Hide Transcript Show Transcript WEBVTT EMILY: WAS IT A KICKBACK CONSPIRACY FUELED BY PERSONAL GREED OR SIMPLY A PRESCRIBER TRYING TO HELP HIS PATIENTS WITH PAIN? BEN: THAT’S WHAT JURORS IN...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video According to the National Vital Statistics Report released by the CDC on Wednesday, oxycodone was responsible for the most overdose deaths in the country in 2011. Then from 2012 to 2015, it...
Alex White took his first steps at 10 months old.Once he could walk, he ran. Once he could run,...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - A new report issued by the Center for Disease Control is naming fentanyl as the deadliest drug in the country. They say it is 80-100 times stronger than heroin or cocaine. Nikki Strunck knows all too well that the new...
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Numbers show the country is dealing with an unprecedented drug overdose crisis and now a new government report finds the powerful...
The illegal drug trade adds up in Nebraska. State troopers say they've never seen so much volume. The heavy drug traffic includes Fentanyl, the powerful opioid the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just named the deadliest drug in the country.KETV NewsWatch 7 got exclusive access...
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CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) - A former Insys Therapeutics Inc sales representative now married to the drugmaker’s ex-CEO said on Wednesday she arranged to have a physician assistant in New Hampshire receive kickbacks to prescribe patients its addictive fentanyl spray. Christopher Clough, a former physician assistant,...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The drug overdose crisis is tightening its grip on the United States, with opioids taking a brutal toll according to a new government report. The report says the powerful drug fentanyl is now the biggest killer, a reality Rich Strickling is all...
The number of total drug overdoses jumped 54% each year between 2011 and 2016. In 2016, there were 63,632 drug overdose deaths. According to Wednesday's report, which analyzed death certificates for drug overdose deaths between 2011 and 2016, fentanyl was involved in nearly 29% of...
CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) - A former physician assistant in New Hampshire put his own greed ahead of medical obligations by taking kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics Inc to prescribe patients its highly addictive fentanyl spray, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. Christopher Clough, a former physician...
As the U.S. opioid epidemic grinds on, fentanyl is fast becoming the main culprit in drug overdose deaths, health officials report.Cocaine and heroin remain the street drugs of choice, but more overdose deaths involve fentanyl, either mixed with those narcotics or taken alone. Between 2013...
CLOSE The overprescription of opioids is leveling off, but deaths continue rising, says Dr. Marc Fishman of the Maryland Treatment Centers. He talks about addiction, treatment and bootleg fentanyl with USA TODAY Editorial Page Editor Bill Sternberg. USA TODAYBags...
(CNN) — Fentanyl is now the most commonly used drug involved in drug overdoses, according to a new government report. The latest numbers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics say that the rate of drug overdoses involving...
A new report analyzing the drugs involved in fatal overdoses once again emphasized fentanyl’s role in the United States’ opioid crisis and highlighted a point frequently made by public health experts: Most people who fatally overdose have more than one drug in their system. In...
(Reuters) - A former physician assistant is set to face trial in New Hampshire on Wednesday over charges he accepted kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics Inc (INSY.O) to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray the drugmaker produced. FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys,...
By Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff December 11, 2018 A Dracut physician has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2016 death of a woman who overdosed on opioids that he had prescribed, the first such indictment in the state, authorities announced Tuesday.Dr. Richard Miron is accused of...
Police Chief Greg Graham noted in an "urgent" social media post on Tuesday that there were 78 overdoses in 2017, with 16 deaths. This year there have been 161 overdoses, with 25 deaths. Ocala Police Chief Greg Graham on Tuesday posted an urgent message to his...
DRACUT, MASS. (WHDH) - A Dracut doctor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after he illegally prescribed opioids to an at-risk patient that resulted in her death, and with illegally prescribing opioids to other patients for no legitimate medical purpose, Attorney General Maura Healey announced. Richard Miron,...
The Trump administration declared the opioid epidemic a “national health emergency” in October 2017. This was a good beginning, but only just a beginning. That’s because...
Joe DiFazio The Patriot Ledger jldifazio Tuesday Dec 11, 2018 at 4:31 PM QUINCY — Police arrested a woman who they say was selling cocaine and fentanyl in the Norfolk Downs neighborhood. Michelle M. Mallon, 44, of Quincy, was charged with distribution of fentanyl, distribution of cocaine and possession with intent to...
After seeing an increase of opioid-related overdoses and deaths, Perth County's health unit is warning the public about using illicit drugs, including heroin and methamphetamine being "cut" with fentanyl. "There is no easy way to know if fentanyl is in what a person is using," a press release issued by the Perth District...
By Ricardo Torres-Cortez (contact) Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 | 2:55 p.m. A pain management doctor linked to the accidental death of a Henderson judge will serve up to 20 years in prison for unlawfully prescribing opioids, according to the office of the U.S. attorney...