Fentanyl

Levy Co., Fla. (WCJB)-- A simple traffic stop quickly turned into an investigation for Levy County deputies after a deputy saw a vehicle failed to make a complete stop at a stop sign. According to deputies, on the night of January 18th, Rebecca Carter, 24, failed...

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Preliminary numbers from the Department of Health and Social Services show Alaska gained ground in the fight against opioids between 2017 and 2018. The welcomed numbers show what state officials are calling significant decreases in deaths from fentanyl and opioid-related overdoses -- but...

PureRadiancePhoto / Shutterstock.com As Purdue Pharmaceutical’s OxyContin has become the poster child for opioid addiction, so too has another drug become synonymous with efforts to save people who have overdosed on those drugs – Narcan, developed by California-based Opiant Pharmaceuticals. Narcan is widely provided to first responders...

The crisis of opioid addiction has captured the attention of the public, lawmakers and the medical community. But while progress is being made against over-prescribing opioid painkillers, street drugs laced with fentanyl are becoming more common and more deadly.Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid much more...

Three men in the United Kingdom (UK) who ran a business selling potentially lethal drugs on the dark web were sentenced Jan. 18 to a total of more than four decades in prison, according to the National Crime Agency. Photo: National Crime AgencyJake Levene, Lee...

Three dark web drug dealers have been sentenced to a total of over 43 years for supplying hundreds of customers worldwide with notorious opioid fentanyl. Jake Levene, 22, Lee Childs, 45, and Mandy Christopher Lowther, 21, were sentenced last week at Leeds Crown Court after pleading...