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US study finds more people die smoking drugs like fentanyl than injecting them

Smoking has surpassed injecting drugs as the most common method of drug overdose deaths in the United States, a new government study suggests. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named the study published Thursday the largest study to examine how Americans ingested the drugs that led to their deaths. CDC officials decided to […]

Baby Overdoses on Fentanyl in Florida, Mother Arrested

A Fort Myers, Fla., woman was arrested after her baby allegedly overdosed on fentanyl, and CPR restored her pulse, police said. Fort Myers Police responded to a call about a baby not breathing at 1:34 a.m. Sunday, WINK News report. Officers met the caller, 38-year-old Mary Sinopoli, the baby’s mother, on the side of the […]

Trafficker Hauled ‘Massive Amounts’ of Meth, Fentanyl to WA

Michael Lopez-Ferrer, a 30-year-old Salinas, Calif., resident who frequently traveled to Eastern Washington carrying illegal drugs from Mexico, was sentenced to prison. He will spend the next nine years in prison after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Tri-City Office launched an investigation. tricity herald report Monday. Confidential informants working with the DEA knew Ferrell […]