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A 1-year-old boy has died and three other children were hospitalized after apparently coming into contact with an opioid at a day care center, according to the NYPD. A 1-year- old boy died and three other children were hospitalized after apparently "coming into contact with an opioid " at a home-based child care site in the Bronx on Friday, New York City police said. The boy who died was identified by authorities as Nicholas Dominici. One of the three children hospitalized is in critical condition, authorities said at a press conference early Saturday. Police said they received a 911 call from a day care center reporting three unconscious children just before 3 p.m. on Friday. When police responded, they found two boys, 1 and 2 years old, and an 8-month-old girl, all unconscious, according to the NYPD. MORE: 6 people accused of torturing, killing woman lured from South Korea for religious group Investigators revealed the children appear to have been exposed to the unknown o...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has stripped one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious, high-volume orders at the hei... The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration stripped one of the nation's largest drug distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers Friday after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious orders at the height of the opioid crisis. The action against Morris & Dickson Co. that threatens to put it out of Business came two days after an Associated Press investigation found the DEA allowed the company to keep shipping drugs for nearly four years after a judge recommended the harshest penalty for its “cavalier disregard” of rules aimed at preventing opioid abuse. The DEA acknowledged the time it took to issue its final decision was “longer than typical for the agency” but blamed Morris & Dickson in ...