http://www.drugnews.org/ Media Awareness Project Drugnews daily 4 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.mapinc.org/ http://www.mapinc.org/pix/xmlpower.gif http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n271/a06.html Barrie Examiner, 17 Aug 2017 - Psst. Pass the word along. Much like the warning at the '60s Woodstock concert to avoid the brown acid, authorities are warning today's recreational drug users to carry naloxone kits in case their drugs are laced with fentanyl. "We're alerting recreational drug users that the MDMA (ecstasy) or cocaine they're taking could be tainted with fentanyl," said Janice Greco, manager of injury and substance misuse prevention at the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU). Browne, Cheryl Barrie Examiner Oxycontin/Oxycodone 2017-08-19 http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n262/a09.html London Free Press, 12 Aug 2017 - As deadly fentanyl fuels a public health crisis, Free Press reporter Jennifer Bieman reveals what you should know about common London street drugs Forget the old adage that what you don't know, can't hurt you. When it comes to street drugs, what you don't know can kill you. Bieman, Jennifer London Free Press Oxycontin/Oxycodone 2017-08-15 http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n261/a06.html The Observer, 11 Aug 2017 - Sarnia cops warn of opioid-laced street drugs after three overdoses - one of them fatal - in five hours Three overdoses in mere hours, one of them deadly - the sinister new face of Southwestern Ontario's opioid drug crisis has killed again, this time not a week after a rare public health warning about the often-hidden killer. Bowen, Neil The Observer Oxycontin/Oxycodone 2017-08-15 http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n268/a05.html Washington Post, 11 Aug 2017 - "Federal drug prosecutions have gone down in recent years. We're going to be bringing them up and bringing them up rapidly. At the end of 2016, there were 23 percent fewer than in 2011. So they looked at this scourge and they let it go by, and we're not letting it go by." President Trump -- who two days after this briefing said he would declare the opioid epidemic to be a national emergency -- not so subtly tried to pin the blame on the Obama administration. "They looked at this scourge and they let it go by," the president said, citing statistics that federal drug prosecutions have declined 23 percent since 2011. Kessler, Glenn Washington Post Oxycontin/Oxycodone 2017-08-11 http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n254/a01.html Toronto Star, 07 Aug 2017 - If half a dozen deaths in Toronto last week were likely attributable to fatal opioid-related overdoses, how many do you think would have died if those drugs were legal? Fewer? I don't see the logic in that. Easier access to drugs and no criminal liability wouldn't discourage use, surely. And we're not talking here about a mild mind-bending substance such as pot, which is to become decriminalized in Canada next year. Still stupid - dumb-downing of the populace . . . but it is the consensus will of the nation - because we seem to be just fine with the stupefying effect of "recreational" marijuana and hash despite all the evidence of young lives going off the rails when teenagers toked to the gills lose interest in school and sports and healthy activities. There is a domino effect to falling in thrall with drugs. If you haven't experienced that reality in your own family, then you're lucky, that's all. Or maybe the people you love aren't part of that sub-sect physiologically and psychologically susceptible to addiction. Most users - 90 per cent, according to the literature - will never be addicted, but 10 per cent strikes me as a really high casualty demographic, no pun intended, and the legalization argument gives those lost souls short shrift. DiManno, Rosie Toronto Star Oxycontin/Oxycodone 2017-08-07 http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n252/a08.html Kingston Whig-Standard, 04 Aug 2017 - Five people in two days sent to hospital after taking drugs believed to be laced with fentanyl Local health officials are raising the alarm after a string of fentanyl overdoses this week. On Tuesday and Wednesday, five people, including three in Kingston, were sent to hospital after taking drugs believed to be laced with bootleg fentanyl. Ferguson, Elliot Kingston Whig-Standard Oxycontin/Oxycodone 2017-08-04 http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n251/a04.html London Free Press, 03 Aug 2017 - Bootleg fentanyl blamed for five overdoses, two of which didn't respond to double doses of antidote WOODSTOCK - Five Oxford County overdoses in the last half of June likely were caused by a bad batch of heroin, possibly laced with particularly potent bootleg fentanyl, a health official says. Rivers, Heather London Free Press Oxycontin/Oxycodone 2017-08-03 http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n244/a03.html The Record, 27 Jul 2017 - CRISIS CAMBRIDGE - Cambridge coroner Dr. Hank Nykamp is tired of political rhetoric and inaction as the local fentanyl crisis deepens. The longtime city doctor has been a Cambridge coroner since 1985. He has seen the best and worst of the city during his career. He loves this city, but believes more must be done to stem the growing number of opioid overdose cases crossing his examination table. Martin, Ray The Record Oxycontin/Oxycodone 2017-07-27 http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n238/a03.html Ottawa Sun, 22 Jul 2017 - Rules he violated accused's rights to a fair trial by asking to meet with police officer An Ottawa judge has declared a mistrial in a drug case after privately questioning an investigating officer in chambers violated an accused's right to be at his own trial. Yogaretnam, Shaamini Ottawa Sun Oxycontin/Oxycodone 2017-07-25 http://www.mapinc.org/find?186 DrugSense Search MAP BK http://mapinc.org/find