The Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) partnered with local and federal law enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to apprehend 12 individuals in southeastern Wisconsin in a long-term federal drug … Read More
Kenosha County receives $300,000 federal grant to battle opioid addiction
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie held the third formal meeting of President Trump’s ongoing Commission on Combatting Drug Addiction and Opioid Crisis, where officials in the pharmaceutical industry and government detailed new partnerships and efforts in the hopes of limiting … Read More
With prescription drug abuse reaching epidemic proportions, police say there’s a new face of drug dealing; the elderly. Seniors Caught Pushing Pills Are The ‘New Face Of Drug Dealing’; Experts Say
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Steve Rummler of Eden Prairie was not a high-profile CEO or business leader. He was an independent financial planner who worked through the network of Minneapolis-based AdvisorNet Financial. Like many others in the local business community, he held a degree … Read More
The Food and Drug Administration targeted more than 500 websites it said were illegally selling unapproved versions of prescription medications, including opioids, antibiotics and injectable epinephrine products, the agency said Monday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/09/25/fda-targets-hundreds-of-rogue-websites-illegally-selling-opioids-and-other-prescription-drugs/?utm_term=.2f7c54f6d0ee
When Penny Mae Cormani died in Utah, her family sang Mormon hymns — “Be Still My Soul” — and lowered her small coffin into the earth. The latest victim of a drug epidemic that is now taking 60,000 lives a … Read More
NEW YORK (AP) — After a troubled youth himself, Phillip Cohen made it a practice to hire people at his woodworking business who have also struggled with addiction and mental health issues. But when an employee died from a drug … Read More
Heroin and opioid addictions — and overdoses — continue to plague Wisconsin and many other states. Public health officials and law enforcement agencies have been tackling the problem on a number of fronts. The latest here in Wisconsin premiered Tuesday … Read More
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