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It’s autumn of 2010 and I’m standing in the exact spot where ten-year-old Kristine Mihelich was found dead as fucking winter in 1977, her newly plum-colored face a muted beacon in the freshly fallen...
View ArticleTHE WATCHDOGS: Heroin deaths — tragedy or murder?
When police and paramedics arrived at her aunt’s apartment in Carol Stream, Adrianna Diana told them she and her friend Christopher Houdek had cooked and shot up heroin the night before. Diana, 20,...
View ArticleManslaughter and drug-death charges tossed in heroin overdose case
A judge ruled that heroin found in the victim's bedroom appeared to have come from a source unrelated to the defendant HACKENSACK -- Charges of manslaughter and strict liability in a drug-induced death...
View ArticleA painkiller’s deadly price: Fentanyl epidemic robs Georgia family of mother,...
Somebody help me! Pat Strickland was about to watch a movie in the den of her suburban Atlanta home two years ago, when she heard her 11-year-old grandson screaming upstairs. She rushed up the ten...
View ArticleHeroin dealer faces charge in death of 18-year-old
A day later, Weiss, an 18-year-old La Cueva High School wrestler and football player who had become addicted to legally prescribed painkillers, was found dead in his Northeast Heights bedroom by his...
View ArticleHow the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic Is Morphing — and Growing
Click here for reuse options! Pro Publica talks to journalist David Armstrong about the rise of fentanyl and the challenge it presents. The nation’s opioid epidemic shows no signs of abating—and in...
View ArticleDoctor accused of issuing thousands of illegal drug prescriptions
A San Gabriel Valley doctor pleaded not guilty Thursday to writing thousands of illegal prescriptions for powerful painkillers during late-night weekend visits and then laundering the money he received...
View ArticleDrug dealer guilty in Clark County overdose death
UPDATE @ 10:30 p.m. (Oct. 8): A drug dealer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter tonight for selling heroin that led to an overdose death. A jury found Lucas Fowler, 25, of Springfield Twp.,...
View ArticleNew Jersey man pleads guilty in drug-related death
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A southern New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from another man's...
View ArticleExperts say empathy for addicts the result of heroin’s grip on white population
The Rev. Mike Starks witnessed the destruction of crack cocaine, but not from the sidelines — he was a self-described gangster and drug addict before he became a minister. The Akron community activist...
View ArticleClark County drug dealer guilty in overdose death
A drug dealer has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the first time ever in Clark County for selling drugs that led to an overdose death . A jury found Lucas Fowler, 25, of Springfield...
View ArticleCamillus mom tells crowd at drug forum daughter's overdose shattered her life
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A Camillus woman told a crowd of about 450 people at a public forum on drugs Wednesday night her life "was shattered into a million pieces" when her 24-year-old daughter died of a...
View ArticleGuilty plea to drug charge in case linked to Derek Boogaard death
A former minor league hockey player accused of selling prescription painkillers to an ex-hockey player who died of an accidental overdose pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanour drug charge. Jordan...
View ArticleGuilty plea to drug charge in case linked to Boogaard death
NEW YORK (AP) — A former minor league hockey player accused of selling prescription painkillers to an ex-hockey player who died of an accidental overdose pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor drug...
View ArticleDrug dealer sent to prison for 10 years in OD death
A drug dealer will spend the next decade in jail — the first person convicted by a Clark County jury of involuntary manslaughter for selling drugs that led to an overdose death. Lucas Fowler, 25, of...
View ArticleSaving lives should be priority, not making drug arrests
Follow @csteditorials Prosecutors across the nation have begun charging people with murder if they shared illegal drugs such as heroin with a friend or family member who died as a result. Now there’s a...
View ArticleAkron man, Kevin Ecker, gets 21 years for selling drugs that killed addict
An Akron man will spend 21 years in prison for selling a drug addict the highly potent fentanyl that killed her when she overdosed in March 2015. Kevin Ecker’s case was the 22nd drug-related...
View ArticleFederal prosecutor cites pregnant Camillus woman's fentanyl death as warning...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The top federal prosecutor for Central New York cited the death of a pregnant Camillus woman last year as a warning to all dealers putting addicts at risk with potentially lethal...
View ArticleTwo men sentenced for selling heroin that led to SUNY Oswego student's death
OSWEGO, N.Y. -- Two men were sentenced to prison Tuesday in connection with a SUNY Oswego student's fatal overdose on heroin. Gabriel A. Gonzalez, 24, and Brian T. Tumolo, 23, were both sentenced in...
View ArticleSheriff: Cheaper drug that's 50x stronger than heroin slams Syracuse's suburbs
Syracuse, NY -- There's a new drug in town that's 50 times stronger than heroin and more profitable for drug dealers, Onondaga County Sheriff Gene Conway warned. It's called fentanyl, and it's hitting...
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