Tag: Synthetic drugs
Experts: Spend opioid settlement funds on fighting opioids
As a possible $26 billion settlement with opioid producers looms, some public health experts are citing the 1998 agreement with tobacco companies as a...
Members of multimillion-dollar opioid drug ring sentenced
SALT LAKE CITY — The final legal chapter of a multimillion-dollar online opioid drug ring ended Friday as a group of millennials who helped...
19 people indicted on meth, fentanyl trafficking charges
INDIANAPOLIS — A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people on charges alleging their involvement in a drug-trafficking organization believed to be linked to...
More states agree to settlement plan for opioid-maker Purdue
More than a dozen states have dropped their longstanding objections to OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's reorganization plan, edging the company closer to resolving its...
Man who infected 46 patients with hepatitis C denied release
CONCORD, N.H. — A former traveling medical technician who stole drugs and infected more than 40 patients with hepatitis C will remain in prison...
Skaggs’ family sues Angels, 2 employees for negligence
LOS ANGELES — The family of former Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs filed lawsuits Tuesday in Texas and California charging the team and...
In pandemic, drug overdose deaths soar among Black Americans
ST. LOUIS — She screamed and cried, banged on the dashboard, begging her husband to drive faster, faster, faster toward her brother lying face-down...
Autopsy: Mother overdosed, infant starved to death
PORTLAND, Tenn. — Autopsies in Tennessee show that a 1-year-old child starved to death in his car seat in a house where his mother...
Nevada plans to use 3 or 4 drugs for late-July execution
LAS VEGAS — Nevada prison officials on Thursday disclosed that they want to use a never-before-tried combination of drugs for the state’s first lethal...
Democrats push bill aimed at family that owns Purdue Pharma
A congressional committee heard grievances Tuesday against the owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma as it considered longshot legislation that would keep them from...