Saco Traffic Stop Results in Drug, Welfare Fraud Charges

Saco traffic stop results in drug, welfare fraud charges
Filed under: cocaine abuse programs
Two women face charges and police confiscate heroin, cocaine base and Suboxone, and find a welfare EBT card belonging to someone else. By Kevin … A routine traffic stop in Saco on Wednesday resulted in drug and welfare abuse charges against two women … Read more on Press Herald

 

We need the right tools to tackle the overdose pandemic
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Naloxone is so easy to use and effective that forward-thinking public-health officials have taken to handing out take-home naloxone kits to regular drug users, those who tend to use needle-exchange programs. About 85 per cent of intravenous drug users … Read more on The Globe and Mail

 

Around the world
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. authorities in Puerto Rico have seized $ 43 million worth of cocaine off the island's southeast coast. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday that more than 3,370 pounds (1,529 kilograms) of cocaine were found … Read more on Arizona Daily Star