Medical examiner responds to 12 probable weekend overdose deaths
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office responded to three additional probable overdose deaths within less than an hour on Sunday, July 28 — bringing the weekend total to 12. The...
View Article‘Significant increase:’ 14 probable overdose deaths in Milwaukee County since...
MILWAUKEE — At least 14 people died of apparent drug overdoses since Friday, July 26 in Milwaukee County, officials with the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday, July 29. The medical...
View ArticleMedical examiner: At current pace, OD deaths in Milwaukee County could reach...
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office tweeted about a disturbing trend on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 14. Officials said if the current pace continues, by the end of 2019, Milwaukee...
View Article‘An imminent public health crisis:’ Drugs on track to kill historic numbers...
MILWAUKEE COUNTY — A total of 120 people died by homicide in 2018 in Milwaukee County. Three times as many people died to drugs and the new numbers show it’s not getting any better. “The pace we’re on...
View ArticleOklahoma judge rules against Johnson & Johnson, orders $572M payment in...
NORMAN, Okla. — An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to clean...
View ArticleLSS Aspen Center: Lutheran Social Services to open drug treatment facility in...
WAUKESHA — Lutheran Social Services will open a drug addiction treatment center in Waukesha. “We have an epidemic before us right now,” said Hector Colon with Lutheran Social Services. “There’s so many...
View ArticleSC Johnson demands Oklahoma AG ‘retract statements’ after wrong tagline used...
RACINE — Racine-based SC Johnson leaders asked the Oklahoma attorney general to retract a statement he made after an historic opioid lawsuit. The pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson was...
View ArticleVirginia drug bust: ‘Enough fentanyl to kill over 14 million people’
NORFOLK, Va. — Thirty-five people have been arrested for importing enough heroin and fentanyl to kill millions of people into Hampton Roads. U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger and various federal,...
View ArticleSurgeon general issues national warning against pot use: ‘This ain’t your...
WASHINGTON — Federal health officials issued a national warning Thursday, Aug. 29 against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize the increasingly potent drug for...
View ArticlePolice find more than 6,600 potentially deadly heroin pills in drug bust
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Police seized thousands of heroin pills made to look like Oxycodone in a drug bust in Nashville, Tennessee. The bust was the result of an investigation into 33-year-old Kingsley...
View ArticleMore than $2.1 million worth of cocaine seized during traffic stop in...
INDIANAPOLIS — Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department seized more than $2.1 million worth of cocaine during a traffic stop late Sunday, Sept. 8. According to a report from IMPD,...
View ArticleMilwaukee County medical examiner responds to 127 probable OD deaths since...
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office tweeted on Thursday, Sept. 12 that it has responded to 127 probable drug overdose since July 1. That is an average of one death every 14...
View Article7 people overdosed on drugs at a Pittsburgh apartment; 3 of them died
PITTSBURGH — A night of excess at a Pittsburgh apartment ended with three people dead, four people hospitalized, and a police department warning how quickly drugs can kill. Authorities responded to a...
View ArticleReport: Opioids settlement won’t fix areas hardest hit
WASHINGTON — A new analysis finds that money from a tentative settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma will be “no more than a stopgap” for state and local governments struggling to combat the...
View Article‘Devastated:’ Parents lose 2 children to opioid abuse, help spread the word...
MILWAUKEE — With the dangers of vaping making headlines across the country, Milwaukee-area leaders and families on Wednesday, Sept. 25 issued a reminder that the opioid crisis drags on. At Fire Station...
View Article10 people died of overdoses within 26 hours in 1 Ohio county
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio — One Ohio county had an “unusually high number” of overdose deaths in a little over a day, the county’s coroner said. “As of about 10 a.m. this morning we have had 10 people die...
View ArticleMedical Examiner responds to 4 probable OD deaths in just 6 hours
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office announced on Thursday, Oct. 3 that it has responded to four probable overdose deaths in the last six hours. MCMEO has responded to four...
View ArticleMan who trained people to use life-saving anti-overdose drug loses battle...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A recovering drug addict who trained thousands of people to save overdose victims died Sept. 28 after “he lost his battle with addiction,” his obituary said. He was 40 years old. Kevin...
View Article‘We’re not alone’ – ‘Sesame Street’ tackles addiction crisis
NEW YORK — “Sesame Street” is taking a new step to try to help kids navigate life in America — it’s tackling the opioid crisis. Sesame Workshop is exploring the backstory of Karli, a bright green,...
View ArticleNorth Carolina judge died of fentanyl and heroin intoxication, autopsy reveals
HIGH POINT, N.C. — An autopsy shed new light on the death of Guilford County’s chief district court judge. Tom Jarrell died at 56 years old on Aug. 3. According to the autopsy released Thursday, Oct....
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