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Man accused of assault during drug-related incident

Last updated Friday, June 14, 2013 - 6:17pm

WOODS CROSS — A 30-year-old man is accused of beating up another man and stealing his car after a drug deal went bad, according to a probable cause statement.

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Brigham City doctor’s conviction upheld by federal appeals court

Standard-Examiner staff & wire services Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 10:55pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Utah pain doctor on drug charges but sent the case back to a federal judge to clarify his sentence.

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Jean Valjean’ bill passes Senate

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 10:31pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Legislation dubbed the “Jean Valjean” bill because it allows people convicted of drug abuses to potentially expunge their records has cleared another key hurdle.

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Bristol-Myers takes $1.8 billion charge on hepatitis C drug

Ryan Flinn Bloomberg News

Last updated Friday, August 24, 2012 - 10:32am

SAN FRANCISCO - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has abandoned an experimental hepatitis C pill it bought for $2.5 billion earlier this year after one patient died and others were hospitalized while taking the drug in a study.

Bristol-Myers will take a charge of $1.8 billion in the third quarter related to research and development of the therapy, the New York-based company said in a regulatory filing Friday. The drugmaker suspended testing the medicine, known as BMS-986094, on Aug. 1 after a patient developed heart failure.

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Judge orders woman charged in drug cases held in Davis County jail

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 10:42pm

FARMINGTON — A Clearfield woman who has been charged in four felony drug cases in less than two months appeared in court Friday.

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Eric Millerberg appears before the Second District Court in Ogden Monday, April 9, 2012.(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

Dea Millerberg: Eric injected Alexis with meth

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 10:00am

OGDEN — Dea Millerberg took the stand this morning to describe Eric Millerberg twice injecting Alexis Rasmussen with methamphetamine on Sept. 11, 2011, and watching the young girl die.

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A pharmacy technician counts hydrocodone tablets in Edmond, Okla., earlier this year. Hydrocodone is the key ingredient in the painkiller Vicodin. The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday. (Associated Press file photo)

Utah ranks 4th nationwide in overdose deaths

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 8:36am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah ranks fourth in the nation in deaths from prescription drug overdoses, according to a report issued Tuesday by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"It's not terribly surprising," Utah Department of Public Health spokesman Tom Hudachko said of Utah's high ranking.

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Zicam inventor arrested, accused of illegally marketing flu drug

Los Angeles Times, Stuart Pfeifer

Last updated Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 5:26pm

LOS ANGELES -- A Redondo Beach, Calif., man who invented the cold treatment gel Zicam was arrested on federal charges of illegally marketing another drug during a 2005 worldwide bird flu scare.

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Spice-ban bill may be amended

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 11, 2011 - 11:35pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The bill banning synthetic forms of cannabis smoked like marijuana, as well as bath salts used like cocaine, was sent back to the Senate for possible amendments.

Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Huntsville, sponsor of House Bill 23, said Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clinton, had met with the Controlled Substance Advisory Committee on Thursday and learned there may be two more synthetic forms of cannabis that are not listed in the bill.

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New drug-resistant superbugs found in 3 states

Marilynn Marchione, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 13, 2010 - 1:56pm

BOSTON (AP) -- An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: A new gene that can turn many types of bacteria into superbugs resistant to nearly all antibiotics has sickened people in three states and is popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday.

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