drugs

Authorities yesterday confirmed that a Chico man who died of an overdose during a house party three weeks ago had ingested a lethal amount of Fentanyl.…

Authorities raided a marijuana plantation in the Sierra foothills above Oroville Wednesday, seizing and destroying plants weighing almost 3,900…

The lure of extracting quick cash from nearly worthless shake will lose a bit of its luster next month thanks to action by the Shasta County Board of…

Half of all drug-related deaths in Shasta County involved prescription medication between 2009 and 2013. That fact – paired with the statistic that 50…

Nearly $4 million has been awarded to the California Department of Public Health to help prevent deaths and injuries caused by abusing prescribed opioids…

There was a heroin or opioid overdose in California every 45 minutes in 2013, and the rural North State saw the worst of it. That’s according to an…

The Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force has actively been investigating manufacturing labs of a potent type of concentrated marijuana called butane…

Three Southern California men were detained in Oroville in connection with the discovery of an illicit home laboratory producing enriched marijuana…

Despite its destructive powers, meth remains the most widely abused drug in the North State. While not nearly as prevalent, Butte County authorities…