Will Getty family curse claim the next generation after the latest death?
Another son, John Paul Getty Jr. (born Eugene), became a heroin addict whose second wife, Talitha, died of a drug overdose in Rome. Enlarge Image …
Category: Health and Society
Drug deaths were already climbing at the beginning of 2020. Then the pandemic hit
Yolande Snaith and her husband Pierre Joubert lost their 21-year-old son, Alexander Joubert, to an overdose of pills containing fentanyl. (K.C. Alfred/ …
Rapper who filmed Holby City actor’s daughter as she died of overdose grins in Instagram snap …
A rapper who was jailed after filming the daughter of a Holby City actor dying from a party drugs overdose has been pictured grinning in his first …
Biden’s other health crisis: A resurgent drug epidemic
More than 76,000 people died of a drug overdose between April 2019 and April 2020, according to the most recent preliminary federal data, the most …
As COVID-19 spikes, so do overdoses in Center City restaurant workers, rattling a stressed …
10, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital reported a spike in overdoses to city public health officials; in the days following, at least three people died of …
Synthetic drugs make field testing dicey for officers
Fentanyl and carfentanil are both powerful synthetic opioid drugs that … The drugs are responsible for thousands of overdose deaths across the …
More help or more charges? Discussion on manslaughter for overdose deaths.
Elkins says the number of drug overdose deaths in the county has increased … charges for people who sell drugs if it leads to an overdose death.
Mark Tyndall: Criminalizing drug use never made sense
The current epidemic of drug–overdose deaths is a tragic but predictable outcome of this failed strategy. Making something illegal means that politicians …
Sunshine Coast has seen 16 overdose deaths in past 2 years
The statistics package also included information on the 15 hardest hit Local Health Areas (LHA) in terms of the rate of illicit drug toxicity deaths per …
Staff at Surrey hospital who gave an eleven-month-girl a fatal overdose of anti-seizure drug …
She was prescribed phenytoin, which was linked to an adult patient death at the trust that manages the hospital in January 2016 as well as another …