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Leadership for the Paducah Police Department say an 18-month investigation has led to the arresting and indicting 23 people from western Kentucky and southern Illinois for charges related to alleged fentanyl trafficking.
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The state report shows that fentanyl accounted for more than 70% of all drug overdoses.
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"He's breathing. He's talking. He's not snoring. He's saying, 'Please, please get off of me, I can't breathe.' That is not a fentanyl overdose. That's someone begging to breathe," an expert testified.
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Officials in the Ohio Valley say recent increases in overdose deaths are largely due to fentanyl, and experts believe most of the powerful synthetic…
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A Washington Post investigation finds the Ohio Valley is suffering the most from the surge in overdose deaths due to synthetic opioids, even as deaths…
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The U.S. Senate has approved a bipartisan package to address the nation’s opioid crisis with more resources for addiction treatment and recovery and an…
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Health officials in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia say the number of overdose deaths related to the opioid crisis continued to rise in 2017 as state…
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The powerful opioid fentanyl is showing up in batches of cocaine, threatening a new wave of opioid overdoses. Some doctors, drug users and law enforcement wonder if the contamination is deliberate.
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Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear plans to announce an initiative to combat opioid overdoses and deaths.A statement from his office says he'll make…
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Health officials say Tennessee saw a record number of overdose deaths in 2016.A state Department of Health news release Monday says 1,631 Tennesseans died…