The drug overdose crisis in Davidson County continues to escalate, experts say, and members of the Metro Council’s Public Health and Safety Committee are seeking ways to curb the death toll.  On Thursday evening at Nashville’s Historic Metro Courthouse, three experts on the front lines of the fight against drug overdose deaths presented to the committee, including Mary Linden Salter, executive director of …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) -Metro Police have charged two men with 2nd-degree murder in two separate fentanyl overdose deaths. According to police, 35-year-old Victor Scruggs allegedly sold a pill that killed 40-year-old William Young on Feb. 5, 2021. Police say that Young was found dead at his South Nashville residence, with his cause of death was ruled as “acute combined drug …

A Portland teenager died on Sunday and another died Monday, after both took pills laced with fentanyl, police said. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that can be up to 100 times more potent than morphine. A small amount can be fatal. Initial investigation by Portland police showed both teens had blue pills in their possession — know as M30s — …

Six students on spring break overdosed on what appeared to be cocaine laced with fentanyl and were hospitalized in Fort Lauderdale Thursday, and one was in critical condition, CBS Miami reports. It happened at an Airbnb. Four went into cardiac arrest after ingesting the drug before two friends tried to help by performing CPR. That’s when they were also exposed to …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — Two grandparents in East Nashville have been arrested in connection to the death of their infant grandson. Metro Nashville Police took 80-year-old Charles Allen Sr. and 58-year-old Yolanda Newsome into custody on Thursday. Police say their 20-month-old grandson, Korran Newsome, died in August from acute fentanyl intoxication. Investigators said baby Korran was in the care of his …

Two inmates at a jail in New Haven died Thursday in a case of suspected fentanyl overdoses, prison officials said. The two inmates were found unresponsive in the same cell by a guard conducting a routine check at the New Haven Correctional Center, the state Department of Correction said in a news release. Medical staff administered an opioid antidote before …

State Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Wednesday that a group of law enforcement agencies shut down a major drug trafficking operation in central Maryland, seizing large amounts of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine. Frosh said officers seized $70,000 in cash, 5 kilograms of fentanyl, 500 grams of heroin and more than 7 kilograms of cocaine. Frosh said the seizure of fentanyl …

Overdose deaths have nearly doubled in Tennessee in recent years, with fentanyl-related overdose deaths quadrupling. News 2 digs deeper into the impact of drugs on families and the community. See our special reports, ‘Deadly Deal’, all day Thursday in every newscast. Read the full article here.

JACKSON, Tenn. — One drug is taking the lives of thousands. Fentanyl, a drug 80 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, has become the root of many overdose deaths across the nation and in West Tennessee. “Fentanyl and methamphetamine both have become cheaply made and manufactured in China and Mexico, and being imported into the United …

The jury in the case against former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay has found him guilty of distributing fentanyl and causing the death of former pitcher Tyler Skaggs in 2019. The jury, which began deliberations Thursday morning, wasted little time in reaching its conclusion. Kay was immediately taken into custody while his family sat in silence as the …