Staten Island bested all the other boroughs with a 49% reduction in accidental deaths from overdoses last year, from 157 in 2023 to 81, according to the most recent statistics available from the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In addition to the work of the task force, the borough is leading the nation with the AI-based Hotspotting the Overdose Epidemic program, which garnered a 77% drop in fatal overdoses among active participants for the 12 months ending in April 2024.
"There's no doubt that America's adversaries are trafficking fentanyl into the United States in part because they want to kill Americans. If this were a war, that would be one of the worst wars. I believe they killed over the last five or six years, per year, 200-to-300,000 people. You hear about a 100,000, which is a lot of people, but the number is much higher than that. That's been proven."
Responding to a report of multiple unresponsive individuals at 44 Liege St., Providence emergency personnel found four people on the front lawn and three more being carried outside the house. First responders treated the students with Narcan and transported them to nearby hospitals, where they were deemed "conscious and alert," the Providence Police Department said. On Saturday, detectives identified a suspect believed to have supplied narcotics to one of the students who overdosed, Providence police said.
Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president's oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference. In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine's corrupt rich had fled their country leaving what they believed to be the peasant class to fight the war.
An Alabama attorney has been accused of trying to poison her husband with a substance she believed to be fentanyl. Sara Baker, 74, of Vinemont, Alabama, is accused of putting the substance in her husband's food or drink on three separate occasions in September, report the Cullman Tribune, Law & Crime, ABC 33/40, WAFF 48 and WVTM 13.
Mr. President, thank you so much for taking questions with your assembled cabinet. I wanted to clarify something that you had said on Sunday regarding the boat strikes near Venezuela. You had said that you didn't know if the second strike on that one boat had happened, but you wouldn't have wanted it, Gutierrez began, adding: Now that your administration has acknowledged that it happened, do you support that second strike?
LOS ANGELES A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to working with Mexican traffickers to bring drugs into the U.S., officials said Thursday. Diego Bonillo, 30, pleaded guilty in July to multiple charges, including conspiracy to import controlled substances such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin. As part of his plea deal, he admitted to using his position to allow drug-filled cars into the U.S. from Mexico without inspection.
The inmate, identified as 31-year-old Markeisha Monique Renee Blount, suffered a medical emergency around 6 a.m. on Sept. 29 at the Maple Street Correctional Facility, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Tuesday. Jail personnel administered life-saving measures, including Narcan, but she died at the facility. Detectives determined another inmate brought drugs into the jail and gave them to Blount, the sheriff's office said, adding that "the drugs are believed to have contained fentanyl."
Fewer than one in three teenagers with opioid use disorder receive treatment, according to a study published in this month's Health Affairs journal that looked at the disorder in minors from 2022 to 2023. In 2023, 557 teens died of opioid overdose, nearly threefold as many as in 2018, while adult opioid deaths only went up by 65% during this time, according to the study. Drug overdoses are now among the leading causes of death for US teenagers.
Ibrahim was among the drug dealers who regularly sold illicit narcotics, primarily fentanyl, to people who used the now-closed supervised injection site, which did not itself provide narcotics, reads the statement of facts. According to the statement of facts, he and others would often set up a shop in the courtyard directly to the west of the centre, near the Queen Street E. Presbyterian Church. Ibrahim would regularly spend time around the centre and was known to workers as Ben.
It's absolutely true there were UN-affiliated organizations that enable a lot of this mass migration but they also have been very permissive about money laundering in the movement of illicit chemicals. The fentanyl pandemic in the United States is tied to a lot of these kinds of movements. Took my daughter and 500,000 other sweet children out of our country.
Drug deaths in the U.S. have plunged dramatically and steadily since the summer of 2023, according to the latest preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Figures released this month by CDC show fatal overdoses falling to 77,648 in the 12-month period ending in March of this year. That's the lowest tally of provisional predicted deaths from fentanyl and other street drugs since at least March 2020.
