LOS ANGELES — An Arizona man has become the second person arrested on drug charges as authorities investigate the overdose death of rapper Mac Miller. Police gave no details on the connection between him and 26-year-old Miller, who died a year ago in his Los Angeles home of an accidental overdose of...
Parents: If You Don't Know How to Spot Drug Use, This Town Hall in Clovis Is for You
Too many parents can't spot the signs that their child is using drugs and miss the opportunity to intervene before drug use becomes drug addiction, says Flindt Andersen, founder and president of Parents & Addicts in Need. The nonprofit PAIN is hosting a town hall meeting Wednesday in Clovis to...
Number of US Overdose Deaths Appears to Be Falling
NEW YORK — U.S. overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary numbers suggest. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday posted data showing nearly 68,000 drug overdose deaths were reported last year. The number may go up as more investigations...
New Mexico Little League Park Plagued by Hypodermic Needles
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico Little League park is fighting a battle against discarded syringes with attached hypodermic needles amid the region's outgoing opioid epidemic. Atrisco Park, home of the Atrisco Valley Little League, in Albuquerque is racing to clean up syringes littering fields and the grounds to protect...
5 States Announce New Suits Over Prescription Opioids
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Five state attorneys general announced lawsuits Thursday seeking to hold the drug industry responsible for an opioid addiction crisis that has become the biggest cause of accidental deaths across the country and in many states. The new filings in Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, West Virginia and Wisconsin mean...
Pharmaceutical Exec Guilty of Bribing Doctors to Push Opioid
BOSTON — A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance. John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys...
Former Fresno News Anchor Found Dead in Glendale
Chris Burrous, a weekend news anchor at Los Angeles TV station KTLA and a former Fresno newsman, has died. Glendale police say the 43-year-old Burrous was not breathing when paramedics were called to a Days Inn on Thursday and he was pronounced dead at a hospital. His death is being...
Autopsy Finds Rapper Mac Miller Died From Drugs and Alcohol
LOS ANGELES — Mac Miller died from an accidental overdose due to a combination of alcohol and drugs, including fentanyl, a coroner's report released Monday said. The Los Angeles County coroner's report named the 26-year-old Miller's cause of death as "mixed toxicity," saying cocaine, alcohol and the powerful opioid fentanyl...
Radio Host Art Bell Died of Prescription Overdose
LAS VEGAS — Art Bell, a former syndicated AM radio host best known for nightly shows in the 1990s featuring paranormal themes and conspiracy theories, died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, authorities in Nevada said Wednesday. An autopsy found the 72-year-old Bell's death April 13 at home in...