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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.…
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Authorities raided a marijuana plantation in the Sierra foothills above Oroville Wednesday, seizing and destroying plants weighing almost 3,900…
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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…
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Half of all drug-related deaths in Shasta County involved prescription medication between 2009 and 2013. That fact – paired with the statistic that 50…
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Nearly $4 million has been awarded to the California Department of Public Health to help prevent deaths and injuries caused by abusing prescribed opioids…
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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…
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The Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force has actively been investigating manufacturing labs of a potent type of concentrated marijuana called butane…
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Three Southern California men were detained in Oroville in connection with the discovery of an illicit home laboratory producing enriched marijuana…
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Despite its destructive powers, meth remains the most widely abused drug in the North State. While not nearly as prevalent, Butte County authorities…