fentanyl

The DEA and its law enforcement partners have seized 9.5 million counterfeit pills so far this year, with fake tablets containing fentanyl making up the majority of that figure

A highly produced video about the dangers of fentanyl released last week by the San Diego Sheriff’s Department is being criticized as doing more harm than good.

Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill Wednesday in Houston that increases the minimum prison sentence in Texas for anyone convicted of manufacturing or distributing fentanyl.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced a new criminal offense for the manufacture or distribution of fentanyl. Abbott made the announcement in Fort Worth Thursday while discussing the trafficking of drugs, including fentanyl, across the Texas border by Mexican drug cartels.

The Venus Police Department announced Thursday afternoon that two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the drug overdose deaths of two other North Texas teens last month, linked to counterfeit pills laced with Fentanyl.

The Venus Police Department announced Thursday afternoon that two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the drug overdose deaths of two other North Texas teens last month, linked to counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl.

Last year, 17-year-old Zach Didier of Rocklin, California, died when he took what he thought was a prescription pain pill he purchased from someone he met on Snapchat. The pill ended up being a counterfeit with a lethal amount of the powerful opioid fentanyl.

An Arizona family purchased a Glo Worm toy from a thrift store for their daughter and found 5,000 pills “believed to be fentanyl” inside.

This week, an Arizona family received far more than they bargained for when they bought a Glo Worm toy for their daughter — only to find that it was stuffed with a sandwich bag full of illicit drugs.

The CDC reports that overdose fatalities in the U.S. have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic.

Up to seven people were hospitalized, including five law enforcement officers and a tow truck driver, after a chemical exposure while attempting to aid the driver of a car who stopped on the Golden Gate Bridge Sunday, California authorities said.

A former employee of the Los Angeles Angels has been charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in connection with the death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs in Southlake in 2019, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

Mexican soldiers seized a huge drug stash at a house in the border city of Tijuana, including about two tons of methamphetamine, eight tons of marijuana and 131,500 pills containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

A Minnesota medical board has disciplined a doctor who treated Prince for prescribing pain medication for the pop megastar in another person’s name.

Police said they found multiple medicine bottles around the family’s Bensalem apartment including one in the baby’s swing.

The Texas Department of Public Safety began deploying NARCAN kits to all Texas troopers Thursday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced after being sued by a family alleging an improper dose of fentanyl actively hastened the death of one of those patients. The...

A 23-year-old man suspected of providing Fentanyl to a person who died of an overdose in Ventura County was arrested today at Cher’s home in Malibu.

Rapper Mac Miller was found dead in his California apartment Friday, according to multiple published reports. The rapper had been open about his substance abuse issues in his music and was arrested on suspicion of DUI in May after he crashed his car. He split with his girlfriend Ariana Grande that same month, and she cited his substance abuse problems…