Officials Draw Ire from Neighborhood for Safety Center Location
During a heated public meeting on Thursday night, the Knox County authorities who have endorsed a plan to create an arrest-diversion...
'Shot at Life' Program Helps Knox Inmates with Opioid Addiction
Knox Co. inmate Greg Fox, Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Lee Tramel and District Attorney General Charme Allen talk about the 'Shot at...
Agencies: More than 200 Knox Naloxone Calls in January
In the war against opioid addiction, there’s one weapon all agencies agree can help: Data. All the emergency agencies track how many...
First Knox Inmate Receives Anti-Opioid Injection
Greg Fox hopes a new medication will succeed where willpower has failed him as he became the first Knox County inmate to receive a trial...
Knox County Opioid Addicts with Criminal Charges to Get Injections to Curb Drug Cravings
Opioid addicts facing criminal charges in Knox County could receive the first doses of a drug to help them stay clean as part of a new...
Safety Center Workshop Planned
The mentally ill and people with addiction issues need a place to go that's not jail, which many officials in Knox County agree upon. How...
Attack Both Supply, Demand in Opioid Fight
East Tennesseans continue to die from drug overdoses at an alarming rate. As of last Wednesday, there have been 17 prospective overdose...
In Wake of Rising Overdose Deaths, Knox Authorities Launch Task Force
As the rate of overdose deaths continues to skyrocket across the state, the Knoxville Police Department announced Wednesday the formation...
Maryville Pill-Mill Nurse Sentenced to 54 Months in Prison
If Jamie Chiles Cordes sold on the street the opiates she put in the hands of addicts, she would have been staring down as many as nine...
Sheriff: Jailer, Two Others Charged in Sevier Drug Conspiracy
A Sevier County corrections officer was booked into the jail where he once worked Thursday after being arrested on charges of smuggling...