A New Study Warns Emergency Workers About the Dangers of Heroin Cut With Acetyl Fentanyl To the long list of reasons that make abusing heroin so dangerous, add this: acetyl fentanyl. According to a recently published study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, acetyl fentanyl is a "quasi-legal" synthetic opiate often mixed with heroin sold on the street. It's potent stuff - five to 15 times stronger than heroin - but users typically have no idea if it's in the dose they've just bought. [continues 290 words]
LAKE PLACID -- A Wilmington woman has been charged with selling fentanyl, a prescription drug that turned up in the bloodstream of a man who died of a drug overdose. Jonathan Bathmaier, 28, was found dead in his AuSable Forks home on the night of May 17. An autopsy showed he died of an accidental, mixed-drug overdose. Fentanyl was part of the drug cocktail. State Police arrested Jennifer M. Pabins, 26, of Wilmington on Monday and charged her with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. [continues 263 words]
RAY BROOK -- Cooperation among federal and state law-enforcement and anti-drug agencies seems to be paying off. On Wednesday, the State Police accepted a check worth $497,794 from the newly formed Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The check is the State Police's share of $730,000 in U.S. currency seized in a handful of drug-smuggling investigations in which the New York authorities participated over the last year. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a melding of what had been separate Immigration and Customs enforcement agencies, is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The agency has 160 investigators spread out along New York's border with Canada. [continues 194 words]
Essex DA Touts Drug Court As Spur To Sanity, Sobriety LAKE PLACID -- Not long ago, authorities pulled over a young man as he drove up the Northway through Essex County and allegedly found more than four ounces of crack cocaine strapped to his calf. The suspect has no criminal history and is likely, as Essex County District Attorney Ronald Briggs put it, "just a mule." Still, if the defendant is convicted of a felony-level possession-of-drugs charge, the presiding judge will have no choice but to send him to prison for at least 15 years. [continues 692 words]
