President Donald Trump and his minions cooked up a fake national security crisis to justify diverting billions of dollars to build a bigger, wider border wall to keep out of the hordes of immigrants he imagines marching across the deserts, hills and prairies between established...
China has banned all forms of the opioid fentanyl, following a promise President Xi Jinping made to President Donald Trump last year, The New York Times reports. Much of the world’s fentanyl is believed to be made in China, and the drug increasingly became a point...
The new laws are likely to be interpreted as win for US President Donald Trump, who has taken a strong stance against fentanyl and was full of praise for China in December 2018 when President Xi Jinping first agreed to the move."This could be a...
Synthetic opioids outlast current antidotes. A nanoparticle-based alternative could fix that.A newly developed single-dose opioid antidote lasts several days, a study in mice shows. If the results can be duplicated in humans, the treatment may one day help prevent overdoses from deadly drugs like fentanyl.Normally,...
The Woodstock Police Service made a rare warning after they responded to a number of fentanyl overdoses in Woodstock in the past 48 hours.Police said Saturday evening they’d received “a significant number fentanyl overdoses in the City of Woodstock.”The release said they seized substances with...
GLENDALE, AZ — A Glendale man and his pregnant girlfriend have been indicted in a federal drug trafficking case, accused of mailing counterfeit opioid pain pills across the country. Jacob Medina, 26, and his pregnant girlfriend, Diane Erika Marin, were arrested March 4 at their...
Fentanyl has been linked to a growing number of drug overdose deaths in New Orleans, mirroring a trend seen nationally in recent years.While the number of drug-related overdose deaths in New Orleans involving opiates in general has remained relatively steady (168 deaths last year,...
The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office is the latest local law enforcement agency to train its officers to carry and administer the life-saving drug naloxone. With exposure to the deadly opiate substance fentanyl on the rise, and the number of overdoses continuing to climb, the agency...