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Kentucky sues Express Scripts, alleging it had a role in the deadly opioid addiction crisis
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's attorney general has sued Express Scripts, claiming the big pharmacy benefit manager was at the center of an opioid dispensing chain that fueled a deadly addiction crisis still haunting his state. The lawsuit Attorney General Russell Coleman filed...
Mother pleads guilty in the death of her 5-year-old son whose body was found in a park
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the 2021 death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and neglected, weighing just 19 pounds when his body was found buried in a Massachusetts park, prosecutors said. Danielle...
Old newspaper boxes are being used to distribute the overdose reversal drug Narcan
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — For decades, Jeff Card's family company was known for manufacturing the once ubiquitous tin boxes where people could buy newspapers on the street. Today, reach into one of his containers and you may find something entirely different and free of charge:...
West Virginia's new drug czar was once addicted to opioids himself
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s new drug czar has a very personal reason for wanting to end the state’s opioid crisis: He was once addicted to prescription painkillers himself. Dr. Stephen Loyd, who has been treating patients with substance use disorder since he got...
US Treasury sanctions a chain of ice cream shops and a pharmacy tied to the Sinaloa Cartel
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it sanctioned two Mexican businesses — an ice cream chain and a local pharmacy — for allegedly using proceeds of fentanyl trafficking to finance their operations tied to the Sinaloa cartel. Treasury’s Office of...
New Hampshire woman to plead guilty in the death of her 5-year-old son
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman is preparing to plead guilty in the death of her 5-year-old son, according to court documents. Danielle Dauphinais, 38, will plead guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and two counts of witness tampering in the death of her son Elijah...
Maine’s watchdog agency spent years investigating four child deaths. Here are the takeaways.
In 2021, the legislature’s government oversight committee directed the state watchdog agency to investigate the deaths of four children whose families had some involvement with the child welfare system. Last week, the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability...
Feds bust Connecticut dealers accused of selling counterfeit pills throughout the US
In a nondescript garage in Connecticut, a New Haven man manufactured hundreds of thousands of counterfeit pills containing methamphetamine, a powerful opioid and other illicit drugs that he shipped around the U.S. and gave to local dealers to sell on the streets, new federal grand jury indictments...
2 men plead guilty to providing fentanyl-laced heroin that killed prominent NYC transgender activist
NEW YORK (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty to providing the fentanyl-laced heroin that killed prominent New York City transgender activist Cecilia Gentili earlier this year, federal prosecutors said Monday. Michael Kuilan, 44, pleaded guilty to a charge that he distributed and...
Police saved a baby in New Hampshire from a fentanyl overdose, authorities say
MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Police in central New Hampshire said Friday they saved the life of a baby who was overdosing on fentanyl. A 9-month-old put the drug in their mouth at a home on Thursday and the mother called police on the way to the hospital because “the baby wasn’t doing...
