Camillus 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 ArticleCharges upgraded in fatal heroin overdose case
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — Two northern New Jersey men accused of selling heroin to another man who later died from an...
View ArticleActor’s death spotlights the danger of addiction to painkillers and heroin
At risk of oversimplifying a horrifying national trend, the problem of opioid addiction is something akin to a bicycle inner tube with a bulge in it: Squeeze the tube back into shape and the bulge...
View ArticlePhilip Seymour Hoffman’s death points to broader opioid drug epidemic
The death last Sunday of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman at age 46 focused media attention on the nationwide surge in heroin use and overdoses. But the very real heroin epidemic is framed by...
View ArticleSupreme Court relaxes mandatory drug-dealer sentencing in overdoses
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday relaxed sentencing guidelines for drug dealers, ruling they may not be given a mandatory 20-year prison term every time an overdose results in the death of a...
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 ArticlePa. leads nation in young men's overdose deaths, N.J. 4th
Pennsylvania leads the nation - New Jersey is fourth - in drug overdose deaths among young adult men, according to a new analysis, raising the local level of urgency about an epidemic that over the...
View ArticleWoman gets 13 years in prison in Dallas overdose death case
A Dallas woman has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for her role in the overdose death of a 19-year-old woman. The...
View ArticleFormer Washington-area FBI agent sentenced for evidence tampering
By John Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former FBI agent who admitted using heroin seized in drug busts in the Washington area, leading to the dismissal of several major drug-trafficking cases, was...
View ArticleSelling heroin used in fatal overdose lands St. Charles woman 10 years
ST. CHARLES COUNTY • A second person charged with delivering a fatal dose of heroin to a St. Charles man has pleaded guilty; she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Whitney Michelle Patrick, 24, and...
View ArticleSummit County gets tough on heroin deaths, charging drug suppliers with...
When Charles Marotto was recently sentenced to five years in prison for providing a fatal hit of heroin to a man he considered a friend, few people left the courtroom happy. Not Marotto. Not the...
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 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...
View ArticleJudge sentences 4 for selling heroin that led to Longmont death
All four admitted guilt A federal judge in Denver has handed down sentences of up to 10 years in prison to three people who pleaded guilty to distributing heroin connected to a 2013 fatal...
View ArticleJudge sentences 4 for selling heroin that led to Longmonth death
All four admitted guilt A federal judge in Denver has handed down sentences of up to 10 years in prison to three people who pleaded guilty to distributing heroin connected to a 2013 fatal...
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 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 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...
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