Westlake, OH

Columbus, OH

New York State

The Mirror US

Paige Gibbons, 19, died of a fentanyl overdose in 2022 after she and a friend took what they thought was a Percocet pill, which turned out to be 100 per cent fentanyl

College student, 19, dies of Fentanyl overdose after taking what she thought was a painkiller

TheDailyBeast

Chilean actor Alex Araya may have succumbed to the stealth drug burundanga after he was found dead in his Colombian Airbnb. The actor was discovered dead on June 7 after a cleaning lady found his corpse in the Medellin Airbnb, according to La Tercera. The night before, Araya reportedly went on a Tinder date with two women, according to his brother, Eduardo, who talked to Chilean newspaper La Tercera. Araya went to the Airbnb at around 11:30 p.m. with the two women—two hours later, only the two women walked out.  The women allegedly stole Araya’s credit cards and cell...

Actor Found Dead After Tinder Date With Two Women

Florida State

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Vero Beach, FL

Lisa S. Gerard

Fentanyl is legal and known as pharmaceutical fentanyl. As a synthetic opioid - made in a laboratory - doctors prescribe pharmaceutical fentanyl in the treatment of severe pain. Many patients find relief by using it after surgery and for advanced-stage cancer.

Florida Indicts 5 for Fentanyl Deaths; "Fentanyl is Good for Business"

California State

The US Sun

A NEW law will prohibit officers from using expired tags to make traffic stops – unless the tags are older than a certain age. However, drivers can still be cited for it as long as the tags aren’t the reason they were pulled over. Assembly Bill 256 in California was signed into law in October […]

Cops can’t legally stop you from July 1 if license plate registration is expired – you still have limited time to fix it

A video has been shared on social media of a man appearing to take hard drugs on a busy street during the daytime.

Video prompts call for action on city drug abuse

Oregon State

Medford, OR

The Independent

An Oregon nurse has been arrested for allegedly using her patients’ pain medication and swapping it with tap water, risking “serious infections” in those she was meant to be looking after.Dani Marie Schofield faces 44 counts of assault in the second degree – each charge reflective of a patient “affected by Schofield’s criminal actions,” the Medford Police Department said in a statement.The intensive care unit nurse has been accused of diverting patients’ liquid fentanyl for personal use, and replacing it with unsterilized water, authorities said. The synthetic opioid is up to 100 times more potent than morphine.Schofield worked at Asante...

ICU nurse arrested for swapping patients’ pain medication with tap water

Business Insider

The DOJ alleges that telehealth executives made $100 million by prescribing Adderall and other stimulants to patients who didn't need them.

CEO arrested and accused of running an Adderall drug ring

Nathan Lobley, Thomas Bradley, Craig Ganson and Paul Taylor made more than £2m a month, police say.

Gang that made millions from huge drugs deals jailed

A pharmacist who admitted to selling drugs without a prescription for his own financial gain has received a suspended sentence. In April, Gerard Cullinan, of Hillside Crescent in Belfast, pleaded guilty on behalf of his company Castlereagh Pharmacy Ltd to selling or supplying painkiller co-codamol and opioid fentanyl without a prescription between January 2017 and June 2020.

Pharmacist sold drugs without prescription

The Guardian

Marlena Robbins believes psilocybin could help treat mental health and addiction issues among Native Americans

Magic mushrooms helped a Navajo woman deal with trauma. Now she wants to help others 

Massachusetts State

Camilo Díaz

(MA) Meet an amazing and loving Goldendoodle who is searching for his TRUE furever family. Waylon is a three-year-old pup who was put into rescue through no fault of his own. According to his Petfinder profile, Waylon originally grew up with a family of his own, but after that family got a new puppy they decided Waylon had to go. There are no further details provided, but it is lucky that Great Dog Rescue New England was there to give Waylon the chance at happiness he truly deserves!

Goldendoodle Surrendered To Rescue After Original Owners Get New Puppy

New York City, NY

NBC News

The driver of a pickup truck that fatally plowed into a group of revelers celebrating the Fourth of July at a New York City park Thursday evening was a substance abuse counselor who penned a book on helping others overcome addiction, according to law enforcement sources. Daniel C. Hyden, 44,...

Driver who plowed into NYC Fourth of July gathering in suspected DUI was a substance abuse counselor and author

Colorado State

Utah State

BroBible

The United States Drug Enforcement Agency had a remarkably two-week run in June when it seized over 170,000 fentanyl pills in Utah. That number represents over 25 percent of the entire total of fentanyl seizures in Utah in 2023 per a press release. Officials now expect the DEA in Utah to break a record for […]
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DEA Seizes Whopping 170,000 Fentanyl Pills In Record-Setting Two-Week Run In Utah

Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles Times

Kyle Sherwood, 28, came to Los Angeles for a drug treatment program. He ended up in MacArthur Park, where he was found dead, face down in a lake, according to officials. Two people have been arrested, but questions remain.

He came to L.A. for treatment. His body was found in a lake. What went wrong?

The Standard

An IT worker who poisoned a married couple with fentanyl is feared to have killed his own father and grandfather. Luke D'Wit, 34, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 37 years after using the opioid painkiller to poison Stephen and Carol Baxter at their £1million home in West Mersea, Essex.Detectives are now exploring whether D’Wit was responsible for the death of his father, Vernon, who had been prescribed fentanyl before he was found dead in a chair at his nearby home in 2021.As part of their review, detectives have also been re-examining how D’Wit’s grandfather died.Essex Police...

Fentanyl double murderer 'may have poisoned father and grandfather' as police launch probe

Gulf Breeze, FL

The wife of a Florida plastic surgeon who died on his operating table had prepared her own anesthesia before surgery and taken a handful of multicolored pills, according to a state report. Benjamin Brown, 41, was charged with second-degree felony homicide and manslaughter by culpable negligence. He turned himself in to police on Monday after a warrant was issued for his arrest on Friday. Brown is being held in the county jail pending his bond hearing.The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to Brown’s practice, Restore Plastic Surgery, in Gulf Breeze, Florida, for a medical emergency on November...

Wife of accused plastic surgeon prepped her own anesthesia before fatal operation

Dublin, OH

USA TODAY Sports Media Group

While Travis Kelce was stateside for Clyde Edwards-Helaire’s wedding for much of the weekend, he managed to make a (possibly) surprise appearance at Taylor Swift’s Sunday Eras Tour show in Dublin. And Swift wasn’t the only one thrilled to see Kelce arrive mid-show at Aviva Stadium. Academy...

A lip reader shared what Julia Roberts may have told Travis Kelce at Taylor Swift's concert in Dublin

Coffee County, GA

Daily Coffee Press

Last month, more than twenty individuals were indicted on felony charges in Coffee County. Several of them have recently made local headlines, including Guillermo de la Cruz-Morales, the sole person charged in connection with the disappearance of Maria Diaz, and Cornelius Jamison, accused of cocaine trafficking.

Grand Jury Indicts Over Twenty Individuals on Felony Charges in Coffee County

(NewsNation) — The mother of a U.S. Army soldier who died from an accidental overdose after taking a pain pill laced with fentanyl is demanding the military provide her granddaughters with owed survivor benefits nearly a year after the tragedy. Shannon Laudermilk’s daughter, Holly Eakins, joined the Army at...

Veteran daughter dies from fentanyl after treatment delays: Mom

Gabriella Korosi

I am a nurse who has been working in Addiction for over a decade. I had seen it all. I had seen sobriety, relapses, recovery, and death. I have seen the statistics increasing and people dying more and more related to addictions. The new problem is that many people do not realize that they might be taking a lethal dose of a substance that they did not purchase. Fentanyl is a very potent opiate medication that I used to use as a nurse for elderly patients or patients who had cancer for pain relief.

Addiction Hurts And Fentanyl Kills

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Cleveland.com

NewsBreak

‘Stop Believing’: Westlake resident fleeced by impostor claiming to be Journey’s Steve Perry

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Westlake resident told police that she was fleeced out of thousands of dollars by someone claiming to be Steve Perry, the former...

‘Stop Believing’: Westlake resident fleeced by impostor claiming to be Journey’s Steve Perry

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