(Anchorage, AK) – On Friday, March 6, 2020, a State grand jury indicted Anchorage nurse practitioner, Kris Kile, and co-defendant Kathryn Herman, with manslaughter in charges stemming from the March 2015 fatal overdose of a 22-year old Anchorage woman, Courtney Jones. Kile is alleged to have prescribed opioids to Herman — a woman she should […]
A Hydaburg woman and another from Anchorage were arrested on Sunday on drug charges following a short investigation, troopers reported on the trooper dispatch. When 27-year-old Melissa Charles and 41-year-old Laneea Naufahu were contacted in Ketchikan, it was revealed that the two women were working together to bring heroin, meth, and pills into the […]
A response to a suspicious vehicle in the Knackstedt Street area in Soldotna by AST netted two on weapons and drug charges late Friday night, troopers reported on Sunday. When troopers arrived at the scene at 11:29 pm on Friday night, they made contact four occupants in a gray 1999 Chevy Blazer. Two of the […]
TORONTO/PHILADELPHIA – In a first-of-its-kind randomized clinical trial, researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and collaborators have shown the benefits of a personalized approach to smoking treatment, based on how quickly smokers break down nicotine in their bodies. Nearly 70 percent of smokers who try to quit smoking relapse within one […]