Heroin

A Lafayette man is facing a Second Degree Murder charge after allegedly supplying fentanyl that led to a local woman’s overdose death. Police say $168,000 worth of drugs were seized during the arrest.

If a new bill proposed by Democratic Representative Ted James of Baton Rouge is passed, this tax-payer funded program would serve every city in the state.

The data collected by this study, co-funded by Intelligent Fingerprinting, will be used to further develop a fingerprint drug scanner that can test for drug use in sweat taken from a fingerprint sample.

Life in the Big Easy simply isn't.  It's always been that way, but now more than ever, it's a hard place to live--and die. For the first time in history, drug overdose deaths passed murders in New Orleans. There were 211 overdose deaths in 2016, a 129 percent increase from the year before...

Legal immunity is coming for those who witness drug overdoses and call for help. Earlier last week, the Louisiana Legislature passed the “Good Samaritan” law, which they hope will help save the lives of drug users.

Louisiana lawmakers believe heroin is a scourge on the state. Therefore, in an attempt to combat this brown plague on society, which has caused a surge of overdose deaths across the state, legislators recently passed a bill aimed at whipping the problem at the source.

Louisiana lawmakers recently introduced a piece of legislation aimed at doubling the minimum prison terms for heroin offenders. It has been over a decade since the state decided to decrease the penalties for heroin addicts and dealers, but apparently, to some, the law is too soft.

Mötley Crüe have been the bad boys of rock n' roll for well over 30 years now. Consuming massive amounts of drugs, alcohol and women. However on this day 25 years ago, the party came screeching to an almost permanent hault... In 1987, the same year the band released their hair-metal hit Girls, Girls Girls, Nikki Sixx shot up so much heroin that he was actually declared dead...