opioids

Travel nurse David L. Shaeffer has been accused of stealing the powerful opioid from hospitals he worked at in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Deborah Baskerville is accused of posing as Shonte Hall, a licensed nurse, and stealing prescription pills while working at a New Jersey medical facility.

This county in New York has the highest opioid overdose rate in the whole state.

Lisa Ferraro, of Hillsdale, is accused of writing over 400 prescriptions for oxycodone without ever examining most patients at her Paterson medical office.

New York State Health Department officials are warning New Yorkers about synthetic marijuana.

Charles Johnson, of Irvington, pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom to charges stemming from three armed robberies in Elizabeth last year. He faces prison when sentenced in October.

The young girl was alert at a local hospital Wednesday while her parents were being held in jail, after the life-threatening incident in Wall Township.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is seeing a rise in the number of opioids being mixed with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer.

Free naloxone kits, while supplies last, are part of the team's second annual Addiction Awareness Night at the ballpark in partnership with the state.

Raymond Catania admitted to prescribing thousands of powerful painkiller pills to a couple over the course of a year in Somerset County.