The number of people living with CF worldwide is now 105,000, up from 70,000 in 2012, according to estimates from US ...
Brian Wasson, a former captain with the Scottsbluff Police Department, was sentenced to prison for felony theft of drug ...
District Court Judge Cindy Volkmer sentenced former Scottsbluff Police Captain Wasson to 40 to 68 months imprisonment on each ...
He became hooked on codeine – an opioid and Class B controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act. He said he downed two to ...
As Dr. Kilby notes, the algorithm is designed to predict elevations in someone’s lifetime risk of opioid addiction, not whether a new prescription will change that trajectory. For example ...
“With the opioid epidemic continuing to impact communities across the United States, National Prescription Take Back Day serves as a vital step in the path to recovery, providing individuals ...
Most of Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposals dealing with the ongoing opioid crisis were nixed in the final budget deal. Few substantive policies meant to address the opioid overdose crisis were in a ...
If they don’t, the opioid trust can withhold and ultimately cut funding from them in the future. Exhibit E, a 15-page document, does not specifically mention prosecutors or public defenders.
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As the opioid crisis raged across Pennsylvania, public defenders increasingly represented people whose charges stemmed from their addiction. In Elk County — a sparse mountainous region home to ...