Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Police: Rochelle Park Hairdresser Sold Prescription Pills From Salon Police: Rochelle Park Hairdresser Sold Prescription Pills From Salon
Police: Rochelle Park Hairdresser Sold Prescription Pills From Salon ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. -- A Rochelle Park hair dresser sold prescription pills from a local salon, said township police who said they found envelopes prepared, labeled and packaged for sale along with several hundred prescription pills. They also seized nearly $10,000 in drug proceeds when they arrested Anthony Bianchi, 44, of Nutley in the middle of a drug deal at the Rochlle Avenue salon on Friday, Police Chief Robert Flannelly said. Bianchi -- whose father, Joseph, is the mayor of North Arlington -- dealt Percocet, Oxycodone, Endocet "during daylight and business hours in [his] place o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Bergen Prosecutor: 'Helping Hand' Continues To Reach Opioid Addicts Bergen Prosecutor: 'Helping Hand' Continues To Reach Opioid Addicts
Bergen Prosecutor: 'Helping Hand' Continues To Reach Opioid Addicts HACKENSACK, N.J. – More than three dozen heroin users arrested in Bergen County over a four-day period got more than summonses to appear in court: They were each also offered the opportunity to connect with a recovering addict who could one day help save his or her life. Of the 37 users given the chance, 19 of those charged with heroin agreed to work with a “recovery specialist” -- – a recovering addict who has remained clean and knows how to help them find treatment, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. A dozen of them completed 5-day detox and had long-term treatment options …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Poughkeepsie, NY
News
Forum On Opioid Crisis Coming To East Fishkill Forum On Opioid Crisis Coming To East Fishkill
Forum On Opioid Crisis Coming To East Fishkill The region's painkiller overdose crisis is the topic on Thursday, March 15, during a Town Hall forum sponsored by the Town of East Fishkill. The forum begins at 7 p.m. in the Town Supervisor's Office. The community forum, titled "the Opiod Crisis in Our Area," is being conducted by C.A.P.E., the Council on Addiction, Prevention and Education of Dutchess County.  There also will be a free Naloxone (NARCAN) training for those interested. The antidote has been a proven emergency response to opioid overdoses.  East Fishkill Police will have a collection box available for anyone who …

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by Jon Craig
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
NJAG: Clifton Ortho Doc Who Freely Doled Out Opioids Barred From Practice NJAG: Clifton Ortho Doc Who Freely Doled Out Opioids Barred From Practice
Njag: Clifton Ortho Doc Who Freely Doled Out Opioids Barred From Practice CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton orthopedic surgeon who prescribed addictive opioid painkillers to patients who abused the drugs, sold them on the black market or otherwise didn't need them has been temporarily barred from practicing medicine. Evangelos Megariotis told one patient that "anything that drugs can do on the street, my medications will do better and safer” and to “just call me,” state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. He also treated patient complaints of hyper tension, upper respiratory issues, ADD, PTS and other conditions with drugs -- among them, Xanax, Adderal…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fairfield, CT
Business
CT-Based OxyContin Manufacturer Lays Off Half Of Its Sales Staff CT-Based OxyContin Manufacturer Lays Off Half Of Its Sales Staff
Ct-based OxyContin Manufacturer Lays Off Half Of Its Sales Staff Purdue Pharma, the Stamford drug manufacturer that created the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin has laid off half of its 400-member sales team and will no longer promote the prescription drug to doctors. The news, announced with a flurry full-page ads by the drug company in the country’s largest newspapers, according to this report in The Hartford Courant, is part of a corporate campaign by Purdue to preserve the drug’s brand and its own, both of which are being blamed in part for the country’s spiraling opioid crisis. Last week, Westchester County filed a lawsuit against more than 30 o…

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by Jon Craig
Newburgh, NY
Police & Fire
Man Charged In One Of Four Overdose Deaths In Orange County Over Weekend Man Charged In One Of Four Overdose Deaths In Orange County Over Weekend
Man Charged In One Of Four Overdose Deaths In Orange County Over Weekend An area man has been arrested for selling heroin that may have caused the death of a Maybrook woman, one of four people to die recently from drug overdoses in Orange County. Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler and Town of Montgomery Police Chief Arnold Amthor announced the arrest of Jay Pagan, 32, of Maybrook on Monday in connection with the overdose death Friday of the 24-year-old woman in the Town of Montgomery. The woman was one of four people who died over the weekend including a 37-year-old woman from the Town of Monroe, a 30-year-old man from the Town of Goshen and a 28-y…

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by Kathy Reakes
Armonk, NY
Politics
Schumer Calls For More Funding To Fight Opioid Crisis In Westchester Schumer Calls For More Funding To Fight Opioid Crisis In Westchester
Schumer Calls For More Funding To Fight Opioid Crisis In Westchester Mre must be done to fight the opioid crisis in Westchester and Rockland, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer said Friday. Schumer announced he will push to secure additional federal funding for Westchester and Rockland. In 2016, overdose deaths in Westchester and Rockland increased by nearly 200 percent. “The opioid crisis in Westchester and Rockland Counties and throughout New York is a national emergency that’s taken the lives of far too many Americans,” said  Schumer.  "As budget deal negotiations continue, I will do everything in my power to secure additional grant funds in New York that co…

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by Sam Barron