Local 4-H launches family empowerment program to combat opioid crisis
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A new program by the Brunswick County 4-H works to empower families while also addressing how that empowerment can combat the opioid crisis. The group is hosting an 11 week...
View ArticleEmails: Purdue executive cast blame on opioid victims
By MICHAEL MELIA and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A member of the family that owns Purdue Pharma, maker of the painkiller OxyContin, cast blame on victims of the opioid...
View ArticleLife After Addiction: Former addict shares how opioids nearly destroyed her
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Krista Turner started experimenting with dangerous drugs like hallucinogens when she was in her teens and her struggle with drug addiction continued about 10 years. “You get...
View ArticleTrial: Murder suspect tested positive for drugs following crash
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The trial of the man accused of crashing into a family’s car and killing a 2-year-old continued Wednesday in New Hanover County. Jonathan Hayes was allegedly high on opioids at...
View ArticleJury convicts driver who had to be revived with Narcan in crash that killed...
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A jury has convicted a Wilmington man on multiple charges in a car crash that killed a 2-year-old boy. The jury late this afternoon found Jonathan Hayes guilty of second-degree...
View ArticleDeputies: Whiteville City Schools employee arrested on drug charges
WHITEVILLE, NC (WWAY) — The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office says they arrested two people on narcotics charges, including one Whiteville City Schools employee. According to the sheriff’s office,...
View ArticleNumber of US overdose deaths appears to be falling
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary statistics suggest. The Centers for Disease Control...
View ArticleAnchor Initiative Program helping addicts overcome substance abuse addiction
BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — From opioid addition to other highly-addictive drugs, the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office is taking a new approach to help people overcome illicit drug use. The...
View ArticleOklahoma judge finds Johnson & Johnson fueled opioid crisis, orders $572M...
NORMAN, OK (AP) — An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state’s opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million to...
View ArticleCommissioner shares personal opioid story
NEW HANOVER COUNTY,NC (WWAY) — Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo says, in the last 10 years, 243 people lost their lives in New Hanover County to opioids. “Saw my baby almost die before my eyes,” Jonathan...
View Article$260 million deal averts 1st federal trial on opioid crisis
CLEVELAND (AP) — The nation’s three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker agreed to an 11th-hour, $260 million settlement Monday over the terrible toll taken by opioids in two Ohio counties,...
View ArticleState budget stalemate stalls opioid pilot program funding
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The state budget stalemate continues to hinder funds for programs right here in Wilmington. City council talked about how they can keep a major opioid overdose program funded,...
View ArticleNCDHHS awarded $2M grant to support mental health response to COVID-19
RALEIGH, NC (WWAY) — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to...
View ArticlePharma execs used strip clubs, broke FDA laws to boost opioid sales
(CBS News) — Nearly 70,000 Americans die each year from drug overdoses, mostly from opioids. As 60 Minutes has reported, the explosion in both the demand and supply of pharmaceutical opioids began...
View ArticleWilmington pharmacy ordered to pay $1M fine, stop dispensing opioids
WILMINGTON NC (WWAY) — A federal court has ordered a Wilmington pharmacy to pay more than $1.05 million in fines and to stop dispensing opioids. United States Attorney for the Eastern District of...
View ArticleFormer doctor who operated ‘pill mill’ in Columbus County sentenced to prison
COLUMBUS COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — A former doctor whose Tabor City medical office was raided by law enforcement officers in 2018 will spend six and a half years in prison for unlawfully distributing...
View ArticleNew Hanover County and City of Wilmington leaders discuss opioid settlement...
NEW HANOVER COUNTY (WWAY) — New Hanover County and City of Wilmington leaders discussing the opioid crisis and how it plans to use the more than $18 million dollars in settlement funds they will...
View ArticleFDA approves over-the-counter Narcan, Here’s what it means
(AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first...
View ArticleWilmington doctor to pay $170,000 for allegations of unlawfully prescribing...
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — A Wilmington doctor has agreed to pay $170,000 to resolve alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act. Dr. Mark S.T. Armitage, a physician practicing with Pelican...
View ArticleChanges to Death by Distribution law to soon take effect
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY)– This week in the Cape Fear, there have been at least two people charged with causing the fentanyl-related deaths of someone by distributing opioid drugs. As the opioid crisis...
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