Fentanyl

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Federal prosecutors filed drug-trafficking charges Tuesday against four defendants arrested following a sting operation in which agents acquired more than 10,000 fentanyl pills smuggled through San Diego-area ports of entry.According to a criminal complaint, undercover agents negotiated in December to buy...

Taylor Paul(Photo: Submitted)A woman is accused of providing drugs that led to the death of a Hanover woman in May, according to police.Hanover Police said Taylor Jade Paul provided the drugs that led to the death of Jamie Mickley, 43, on May 4. Police said Mickley's cause...

Data source: Virginia Department of Health. (Click for larger image.) Everyone seems to agree that Virginia, like the rest of the nation, is in the grips of an epidemic of opioid overdoses. Virginia Department of Health (VDH) data show that the number of overdose deaths attributable...

Drug testing groups have warned that a dangerous new strain of synthetic ketamine - a much stronger strain than usual, with longer lasting effects - has arrived in the UK. This follows several people becoming ill after taking what they thought was class B drug...

TRENTON — Eight people die of a drug overdose in New Jersey every single day. For the first time in our state’s history, drug overdose deaths within a calendar year topped 3,000. Figures from the New Jersey Attorney General’s office put the number at 3,163...