Multiple reported gang members were arrested this week by federal authorities on various charges, including allegedly smuggling methamphetamine and heroin inside plastic straws into Pitchess Detention Center. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The 12 arrested Tuesday and Wednesday are among 17 defendants named in a series of indictments returned by a ...

Los Angeles County public health officials issued a warning Tuesday about black tar heroin that may be contaminated with a bacteria that can cause botulism — a potentially fatal disease. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is warning that black tar heroin in Los ...

Fentanyl, a deadly opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin, is a growing threat across California, including in Santa Clarita, where a string of fatal overdoses linked to the drug were reported in 2017. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The California Department of Health released a report in April saying ...

The bipartisan Heroin Task Force unveiled their legislative agenda for the upcoming year, aimed at reducing heroin use and deaths associated with opioids. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The task force, chaired by Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-Connecticut and Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-New Hampshire, started three years ago when the heroin ...

Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, has recently been part of a Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station training. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Narcan is a narcotic blocker in the form of a nasal spray used to reverse the effects of opioids in the event of an overdose, according to the drug’s ...

Many Santa Clarita residents were shocked when the bedroom community was hit with more than 10 drug overdoses in 48 hours back in April. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. But for members of the Santa Clarita Sheriff Station’s Juvenile Intervention Team, or J-Team, it’s something they work at every day. Sgt. ...

While detectives with the Narcotics Unit continue their investigation into an alleged drug house near an elementary school, two families are dealing with death, after what’s suspected to be two more overdoses affecting the Santa Clarita Valley. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Nadia Inez Esmaeel, 29, of Santa Clarita, and Eddie ...

As I sit having my coffee this morning, I have been thinking about the most recent overdoses and deaths from an overdose in Santa Clarita recently. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. It makes me so sad and brings back memories of Trae’s death and the deaths of children that so many ...

In a 48-hour period, there were 10 overdoses in the Santa Clarita Valley — one fatal. Officials reported nine others were saved by the ‘anti-opiate’ drug. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Naloxone, available without a prescription in California, is designed to rapidly reverse an opioid overdose, a life-saver for first responders, quite ...

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