From The Trussville Tribune staff reports BIRMINGHAM — A Birmingham man was sentenced to 121 months in prison for being in possession of nearly half a kilogram of fentanyl, according to Unit... Read more
By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel... Read more
By CLAIRE GALOFARO and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The photo that flashed onto the courtroom screen showed a young man dead on his bedroom floor, bare feet poki... Read more
From The Trussville Tribune staff reports MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state of Alabama is getting $6.3 million in federal funding to help fight opioid addiction. The U.S. Department of Healt... Read more
By The Associated Press JASPER, Ala. (AP) — Opiods, meth and other drugs are ravaging Walker County in northern Alabama, authorities say. At least 254 people died from drug overdoses in Walk... Read more
From The Trussville Tribune staff reports WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Raeford Brown was uniquely positioned to help the U.S. government answer a critical question: Is a new version of the painkill... Read more
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A new program is being developed to address the opioid problem in parts of west Alabama. A statement from the University of Alabama says a team of researchers and oth... Read more
By Erica Thomas, managing editor CLAY — Everyone has heard about how the opioid crisis is claiming the lives of thousands of Americans every year. In fact, the National Institute on Drug Abu... Read more
From the Trussville Tribune staff reports WASHINGTON, DC – Our civics books tell us that the founders envisioned a system of federalism in which a high level of cooperation between the feder... Read more
From the Department of Justice WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have proposed a reduction for controlled substances that may be man... Read more
