Fentanyl

The National Defense Authorization Act for 2024 includes several measures to counter Chinese influence but dropped many others. Items in the bill include investigations into whether defense funds were used by the Wuhan Institute of…

President Biden said Tuesday that he took important steps during his meeting last week with Chinese President Xi Jinping to curb the flow of fentanyl into the United States, but that he will have to verify that the Chinese follow…

A Utah woman who wrote a children's book about grief after her husband's death and was later arrested on accusations of killing him made changes to her husband's life insurance years before he was fatally poisoned, according to…

Marijuana laced with fentanyl is rising across the US, a Washington doctor has warned, after cases of the drug cocktail were found in New York, Alabama, Illinois and Louisiana.Fentanyl, a highly potent synthetic opioid that's 100 times…

TogetherSF Action, a San Francisco-based advocacy group, has flooded the city’s streets with billboards criticizing the government’s response to the fentanyl crisis that are meant to shock readers, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.…

One tool to make sure those using illicit drugs are not unknowingly consuming fentanyl is by providing fentanyl test strips, or FTS. The test strips allow someone to test a pill for their supply of drugs for the presence of fentanyl.…

Virginia officials have launched a war on fentanyl, vowing to cut the number of deaths from fentanyl in the state by 20 percent.Gov Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who entered office in 2022, called fentanyl a 'weapon of terrorism'. The drug…

In 2020, two Los Gatos High School students fatally overdosed on fentanyl, a synthetic opioid drug 50 times as potent as heroin. Los Gatos High School junior Kyle Santoro is on a mission to make sure teens and parents talk not just about…

Students are overdosing in greater numbers, and school systems are racing to respond by stocking up on overdose-reversing antidotes and coming up with ways to better support students’ mental health.…

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order Tuesday that directs state agencies to take 10 steps intended to bolster the fight against the fentanyl crisis, including setting up a plan to use wastewater surveillance to keep tabs…