What's behind growing push to punish dealers in fatal ODs?
Faced with an alarming increase in opioid addiction, a growing number of prosecutors are charging dealers not just for selling but for the deaths of customers who overdose on heroin or fentanyl. Here...
View ArticleDrug dealer gets 5 years for customer's overdose death
A Hamilton drug dealer was sentenced to prison Friday for causing the death of a customer who overdosed. MOUNT HOLLY -- A drug dealer who pleaded guilty to causing a customer's death by selling him...
View Article3 indicted on charges they sold drugs that led to overdose deaths
The three overdose victims died in 2016. WOODBURY -- Three men have been indicted on charges that they sold drugs that led to overdose deaths in Gloucester County. The cases against the three men are...
View ArticleMan gets 13 years for selling heroin that led to OD deaths
Angel Hernandez, 39, of Elmwood Park was convicted of two counts of strict liability for drug-induced deaths. PATERSON - A drug dealer from Bergen...
View ArticleCloster man sentenced for selling heroin that led to Emerson woman's overdose
After a county prosecutor declared that his case should be a “cautionary tale” to any would-be drug dealer, a judge on Wednesday sentenced a Closter man to six years in state prison for selling the...
View ArticleThe Heroin Crisis in Trump’s Backyard
Facebook Twitter Google + Email Comment Print PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla.—Across the bridge from Palm Beach’s oceanfront mansions and Mar-a-Lago, the private club owned by President Trump where he spent...
View ArticleDoctors must lead us out of our opioid abuse epidemic
(CNN)Veteran doctors don't need a blood test to tell when someone is on the verge of a drug overdose. They can even narrow down the culprit by observation alone. Dilated pupils mean cocaine,...
View Article“Not in it for Justice”
Summary On the night of November 2, 2015, Maria Soto’s 18-year-old son Daniel went out with friends and did not come home. At 1:30 p.m. the next day, Maria finally got a call: Daniel had been stabbed...
View ArticleHow Ohio prosecutors are fighting back against deadly heroin
(CNN)The short, scarce breaths had all but stopped by the time the paramedics arrived. On August 21, EMS workers in Springfield, Ohio, found a heroin user passed out behind the wheel of a car. Having...
View ArticleHow Misuse of a Single Paragraph Ended Up Killing 60,000 Americans Per Year
Opioid addiction is at an all-time high in the U.S., and according to many addiction specialists, pain and hopelessness are primary drivers of this burgeoning crisis.1 Limiting the availability of...
View ArticleCongress’s Take on the Heroin Epidemic
A heroin epidemic is on fire all across America. Heroin deaths shot up from 1,779 in 2001 to 10,574 in 2014 as Afghan opium poppy fields metastasized from 7,600 hectares in 2001 (when the War in...
View ArticlePrescriptions for painkillers brought about the explosion in heroin use in...
Andi Peterson, seen in a mugshot (left) and several years after treatment (right). Andi Peterson never thought twice about taking Percocet. After all, the powerful painkiller had been prescribed by a...
View ArticleWhat's behind growing push to punish dealers in fatal ODs?
Faced with an alarming increase in opioid addiction, a growing number of prosecutors are charging dealers not just for selling but for the deaths of customers who overdose on heroin or fentanyl. Here...
View ArticleDark Shadows: Iran-Contra, Secret Wars & Covert Operations, Part 3
INTRODUCTION: This is the third of a five-part series exploring the Iran-Contra Affair and its consequences. Part 1 described the Reagan Administration’s secret wars and illegal arms deals exposed in...
View ArticleDrug-addicted, dangerous and licensed for the operating room
Dr. Joely Nelson slumped from a living room chair onto a pillow on the hearth of the fireplace, her face scorched from the heat, her dead body riddled with drugs. A fellow anesthesiologist found her...
View Articletreatment for crack addicts than today's heroin users
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — When Leola Bivins was first sent away for dealing drugs, she was a 22-year-old high school dropout with a 2-year-old daughter at home. Addiction was the center of the life she...
View ArticleDrugmakers fought state opioid limits amid crisis
The makers of prescription painkillers have adopted a 50-state strategy that includes hundreds of lobbyists and millions in campaign contributions to help kill or weaken measures aimed at stemming the...
View ArticleREAD: Full text of Christie's 2017 State of the State
Full text of the governor's 2017 State of the State address. TRENTON -- Gov. Chris Christie gave his seventh State of the State address on Tuesday. Here's the full prepared text of the governor's...
View ArticleLive fact check: Chris Christie's 2017 State of the State address
Follow along as we annotate the speech with fact checks, previous coverage and additional context Gov. Chris Christie is scheduled to give his 2016 State of the State speech in Trenton Tuesday. We'll...
View Article'It was a conspiracy': recovering addicts wage legal battle over prescription...
Groundbreaking lawsuit unfolds in West Virginia as ‘pill-pushing’ doctors and pharmacists are being accused of colluding with medical industry to get rich...
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