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A new bill was signed into law in Arizona last month dramatically increasing the sentence for trafficking in fentanyl. Known as the Ashley Dunn Act, it was named for a young woman who died from fentanyl poisoning several years ago. The law goes into effect this...
The harsh laws regarding possession and use of marijuana have been under attack in Arizona and elsewhere for a number of years. This has been due in part to the relatively large number of individuals who are in jails and prisons in the United States compared with...
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid. There are a number of different analogs of the drug, but a typical dose of fentanyl is perhaps 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times as potent as morphine. While fentanyl has been used to bolster the effect of illegal drugs since...
A new bill signed into law last month by Governor Ducey legalized the use of testing strips to detect the presence of fentanyl in controlled substances. In the wake of skyrocketing drug deaths due to opiate overdoses, the new law will allow the purchase of the strips...
We have all heard of drug paraphernalia, and most people think they understand what the term means. But a look at the statute in Arizona which makes possession of drug paraphernalia a crime, shows that the definition is much broader – and much less clear – than you...
Under a new law in Arizona that went into effect on January 1, 2020, all opioid prescriptions must be transmitted from a physician to a pharmacy electronically. The e-prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) is now the law to one degree or another in about half the...
John Kapoor, founder of Insys Therapeutics based in Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced last week after being convicted of racketeering conspiracy. That conspiracy involved the bribery of doctors to prescribe the company’s painkiller, fentanyl. Fentanyl is a strong...
As we have said on a number of occasions, many arrests are the result of police sting operations. Stings probably are used most commonly in the case of drug crimes. An example occurred last month with the alleged sale of fentanyl and heroin. The sting in this case was...
Maricopa County investigators, armed with a search warrant, raided a home in Phoenix last month. We don’t know what the basis for the warrant was, but the cops apparently suspected that the home was being used for more than a residence. Here’s what the police say they...
The news has been overflowing of late regarding what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refers to as the opioid epidemic. We discussed the issue in our blog early last year. It includes drug addiction, drug overdoses and deaths, drug crimes, and...