Jury Convicts Mother In Boy's Death From Benadryl Overdose
Investigators say the 16-month-old boy had at least 10 times the normal amount of the medication in his system.
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Investigators say the 16-month-old boy had at least 10 times the normal amount of the medication in his system.
A tool to combat deaths from drug overdoses is paying off, but police say there's still much work to be done in the battle against drugs.
The overdoses involved heroin, fentanyl and Vicodin, another powerful painkiller.
A judge has awarded a $3 million settlement to the estate of a woman who died of a narcotics overdose while undergoing physical rehabilitation at a facility in metro Detroit.
Having seen a dramatic increase in the number of cases involving heroin, the Oakland County Sheriff's office will be teaming up in the coming week with other law enforcement agencies to host a seminar aimed at educating the public on the dangers to teens.
Bouchard says heroin use often begins as a replacement for prescription drug abuse.
The 35-year-old said he put his friend's body in a large trash bin after the man died of an apparent drug overdose.
Monroe County health officials are calling it an "epidemic" -- the proliferation of fatal heroin overdoses that continue to claim young lives.
A local mom says her two children's heroin addiction has cost her her home, all her belongings and her family.
Police say a 26-year-old man whose body was found two months ago inside a twice-ticketed pickup truck on a Kalamazoo street died of a heroin overdose.
CDC Director Thomas Frieden said overdoses involving prescription painkillers are at epidemic levels and now kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.
A volunteer chaplain at the Ferndale police department has been relieved of his duties after a man died at his home of a drug overdose.
A Detroit hospital saw an increase in drug overdose cases from so-called "rave" drugs during the Movement Electronic Music Festival, over Memorial Day weekend.
