Tag: Fentanyl
R.I. Foundation gifts $250K to URI for purchase and distribution of...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation is gifting a $250,000 grant to the University of Rhode Island to purchase roughly 3,000 Narcan kits for...
Two in custody following seizure of 3.4 kilograms of fentanyl pills
PROVIDENCE – Two men are in federal custody following a Rhode Island DEA Drug Task Force investigation that resulted in the seizure of more...
Health officials tracking increase in fentanyl-related overdose deaths in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Overdose deaths involving fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, are on the rise in Rhode Island, health officials say.
The R.I. Office of the...
Providence man sentenced to 5 years in prison for possession, distributing...
PROVIDENCE – A Providence man found to be in possession of more than 100 grams of fentanyl was sentenced Feb. 7 to five years...
R.I. Hospital-led researchers use devices to test street drugs for fentanyl
PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island Hospital opioid expert is leading a study that has found that using two separate methods to check for fentanyl...
Brown University awarded grants to reduce opioid overdoses
PROVIDENCE (AP) — Brown University was awarded $6.8 million in federal funding to work with Rhode Island health officials to help solve the opioid...
Insys files for bankruptcy, overcome by opioid liabilities
NEW YORK – Insys Therapeutics Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after agreeing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle a related probe...
Five Questions With Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott
5Q: Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott | Director, R.I. Department of Health
1. What do residents who live in a state-designated “health equity zone” get that...
Brown study: Fentanyl test strips effectively reduce young-adult opioid overdoses
PROVIDENCE — Brown University's School of Public Health researchers report fentanyl test strips are effective in preventing opioid overdoses and that community-based organizations would...
Advocates to distribute street drug tests for fentanyl throughout R.I. Friday
PROVIDENCE — Public health advocates, including representatives of Preventing Overdose and Naloxone Intervention at The Miriam Hospital, will distribute street drug test strips for...
