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Peterborough Public Health reports through so far in 2023, there have been 195 emergency department visits for drug poisonings — down from 285 over the same time period in 2022.

Grey Bruce Public Health is reporting an alarming spike in recent drug poisonings related to fentanyl, with 14 overdoses in three days.

Grey Bruce Public Health is reporting an alarming spike in recent drug poisonings related to fentanyl, with 14 overdoses in three days.

Bryce Gardner Duncan, 23, will serve prison time, but his charge was reduced from murder to manslaughter.

Fatal overdoses involving opioids rose again last year in Vermont, reaching their highest point since the state began tracking them more than a decade ago....

New data gives an updated look at state of the addiction crisis in New Hampshire.

This Week in Washington: President Biden announces ending date of COVID-19 PHE, House begins investigations into COVID-19 origins; State of the Union scheduled for Feb. 7...

Family. >> he was such a happy baby. oh, my god. he was so happy all the time. >> is it hard to talk about? >> no, i love talking about him. i talk about him to anybody who will listen. i loved seeing him on the hockey rink. that was his happy place where he could just sort of be free. his friends packed up immediately from schools wherever they were and came over and the family started showing up and i was just in shock. we tried. we were doing cpr and not a chance. he was long gone. i dont say...

Oh, my god, he was so happy all the time. >> is it hard to talk about? >> no, i love talking about him. i talk about him to anybody that will listen. i loved seeing him on the hockey rink and i think that was really, really his happy place, you know, where he could just sort of be free. his friends packed up immediately from schools, wherever they were, and came over and the family started showing up and i was just in shock. you know, we tried, we were doing cpr and not a chance. he was long gon...

>> on a single sad night, november 2nd, dinas son became one of the 92,000 fatal overdoses in 2020 alone. much of it driven by fentanyl. the problem is theres so many of these drugs that are now on the street that the dea had to set up a secret forensics lab just to try and keep up. were making our way there now. scott is deputy assistant administrator. youre getting more pills and more of those pills are coming back positive for fentanyl? >> almost every one of them comes back positive. >> in 2...