• News Wrap: Omarosa airs secret tape of Trump campaign job offer

    News Wrap: Omarosa airs secret tape of Trump campaign job offer

    Aug 16, 2018 10:45 PM EDT

    ... in deaths from synthetic opioids.Meanwhile, police in New Haven, Connecticut, are trying to round up a bad batch of synthetic marijuana, after 76 people overdosed within a 24-hour period.  Paramedics started responding to overdoses on Wednesday morning, around a park near Yale University.  No one has died, but ...

  • Elvis' addiction was the perfect prescription for an early death

    Elvis' addiction was the perfect prescription for an early death

    Aug 16, 2018 09:34 PM EDT

    ... if the rock star who President Richard Nixon awarded a special badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs had died of a drug overdose? When the toxicology report came back several weeks later, however, Elvis’ blood was found to contain very high levels of the opiates Dilaudid, Percodan ...

  • The year after childbirth is the deadliest for addicted women

    The year after childbirth is the deadliest for addicted women

    Aug 15, 2018 10:13 PM EDT

    ... with an opioid addiction, it can be a motivating moment,” said Davida Schiff, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and lead author of the postpartum overdose study. “We should capitalize on the emotions women feel during pregnancy, and sustain their care or enhance it during the postpartum period, which is ...

  • How Catholic churches in Pennsylvania hid decades of abuse

    How Catholic churches in Pennsylvania hid decades of abuse

    Aug 15, 2018 09:27 PM EDT

    "During the violent assault, Graff had borne down on Joey's back with such force it had damaged his back," the report said. Joey, later on, became addicted to painkillers after the back injury. Joey wrote the letter before he died of overdose. Graff served as a Catholic Church ...

  • A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and 'so much pain to process'

    A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and 'so much pain to process'

    Aug 14, 2018 10:30 PM EDT

    ... an admission that they had fraudulently marketed the drug for years. Beth Macy: The important thing to the families who had lost children to OxyContin overdose was they got to be here. They got to look them in the eye. And Federal Judge James Jones, who still presides over this ...

  • Poison control calls spike for unapproved drug that produces opioid-like highs

    Poison control calls spike for unapproved drug that produces opioid-like highs

    Aug 04, 2018 04:09 PM EDT

    ... public health threat. In April, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder passed a measure to reclassify tianeptine as a Schedule II controlled substance after a series of overdoses linked to the drug in 2017. “In light of the ongoing U.S. opioid epidemic, any emerging trends in drugs with opioid-like effects ...

  • 5 important stories that have nothing to do with Russia

    5 important stories that have nothing to do with Russia

    Jul 17, 2018 11:31 PM EDT

    ... Earlier this year, two Nigerian students were attacked after a rumor suggested “Africans had sold drugs to an Indian student who later died of an overdose,” and the next month, a mob of 200 people attacked and killed a Muslim man who they believed was transporting cows -- sacred in the ...

  • Nevada judge halts execution after objections from drug company

    Nevada judge halts execution after objections from drug company

    Jul 11, 2018 08:27 PM EDT

    A third company, Pfizer, last year demanded Nevada return the third drug intended for use in the execution, the powerful opioid fentanyl. But the state refused. Fentanyl, which has been blamed for deadly overdoses across the country, has not been used before in an execution. Jordan T. Smith, an assistant ...

  • Jackson family patriarch dies at 89

    Jackson family patriarch dies at 89

    Jun 27, 2018 05:17 PM EDT

    ve each other, and we have children. That's why we're together." When Dr. Conrad Murray went on trial in 2010, charged in Michael's overdose death from propofol, Joseph and Katherine attended court with several of Michael's siblings. Murray's conviction of involuntary manslaughter provided some measure ...

  • Mitt Romney wins GOP primary in Utah Senate race

    Mitt Romney wins GOP primary in Utah Senate race

    Jun 27, 2018 03:03 AM EDT

    ... a lawsuit that overturned Utah's ban on gay marriage. He's facing physician Jennifer Plumb, a doctor who vows to work to reduce opioid overdoses, in the primary to replace outspoken Democratic state Sen. Jim Dabakis. GOP voters were also deciding the next sheriff of Utah County. Pleasant Grove ...