A South Carolina sheriff’s deputy collapsed after touching a minuscule amount of a suspect’s fentanyl stash during a traffic stop — the incident caught on police body cam footage.
A suspected drug dealer is facing murder charges in connection with the fentanyl deaths of two babies in May and August of 2023 in San Jose, California, Santa Clara County prosecutors said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved a non-opioid pain medication that can prevent people from becoming addicted and at risk of overdosing.
President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a man who was sentenced to ten years in prison for his involvement in a New York woman’s fentanyl overdose death.
A nine-month-old baby in New Hampshire had to be revived with Narcan after exposure to what police believe to be fentanyl.
Drug-related deaths skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration, the New York Times admitted Friday, underscoring the lack of border security.
Social media platforms including Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Instagram, China’s TikTok, and Snapchat have become dangerous marketplaces for the sale of deadly fake pills laced with fentanyl, contributing to a growing epidemic of overdose deaths among young Americans.
Police say a first-grade teacher in Maryland has been arrested in connection to an overdose death involving fentanyl in Washington, DC.
A California mother has been charged with her 20-month-old daughter’s murder after the toddler died from a suspected fentanyl overdose in late July.
A Tennessee woman is accused of aggravated child neglect after a one-month-old baby in her care overdosed on fentanyl on Saturday, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.
Fentanyl has “largely fueled” a staggering increase in youth overdose deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
Parents in Minnesota are facing charges related to the fentanyl overdose death of their one-year-old baby girl in December of 2023.
Two bodies and a white powder, later determined to contain fentanyl, were discovered in a “human-dug cave” in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Doctors in Oregon are reportedly seeing a rise in pregnant women using fentanyl, which is ultimately causing newborns to begin their lives struggling with withdrawal symptoms.
Two alleged drug dealers in San Jose, California have been charged with murder for their role in the fentanyl death of a toddler in 2023.
Oregon’s Democrat governor signed a bill on Monday that restores criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of drugs as the problems of addiction and overdose plague residents across the state.
A couple is facing child cruelty charges after a 9-month-old baby overdosed on fentanyl in Georgia on Saturday.
The bill is aimed at combating fentanyl overdoses among children after the deaths of three Bay Area infants and toddlers.
A Texas family is mourning a high schooler who died of a suspected fentanyl overdose after making just “one mistake.”
A Tennessee family is warning the public against taking drugs after losing Tracy Marlar, 35, to a fentanyl overdose after she took laced oxycodone.
A New York 11-year-old has died with fentanyl in his system at a “known drug house” months after a dead body was discovered at the same home.
The Central Minnesota Violent Offender Task Force seized nearly 5,000 fentanyl pills after an investigation into multiple fatal overdoses.
Montana has experienced an over 20,000 percent increase in fentanyl seizures by anti-drug forces since 2019, the attorney general said.
New Hampshire Democrats tried to stop Republicans from cracking down on fentanyl dealers, saying the “tough on crime” way doesn’t work.
An 11-year-old U.K. boy is dead after taking part in a TikTok trend called “chroming.” His family is now calling for the app to be banned.
A New York toddler’s mysterious fentanyl overdose has tormented her mother for almost a year. Though the pain of losing her daughter will never just go away, strangers from around the world have stepped in to help lessen the weight.
More than 2,000 homeless individuals died in Los Angeles in 2023 — a nearly 300 percent increase in deaths from 2014, according to officials.
Officials in Las Vegas reportedly seized over 90,000 illicit fentanyl pills and other drugs from two men on Wednesday, the incident happening while a child was at the scene.
Three Florida mothers are taking a stand to inform the public about the dangers of fentanyl after losing their children to the deadly drug.
A man is mourning the loss of his 17-month-old son, blaming the baby’s mother and CPS for allegedly letting him overdose on fentanyl.
Two Michigan men are dead and one is in critical condition after two young children discovered their father and his friends unresponsive due to suspected fentanyl overdoses.
A woman in Fort Myers, Florida was arrested after her baby allegedly overdosed on fentanyl and later regained a pulse with CPR, police said.
Local leaders around Oregon are speaking out about the dire fentanyl crisis sweeping through the state, with Republicans demanding more help.
Emergency personnel in a small Oregon city had to respond to four separate fentanyl overdoses in a span of just six hours on Tuesday. By the next day, the entire county was placed in a state of emergency due to the prominence of the deadly drug.
Idaho lawmakers are cracking down on the fentanyl crisis with a new bill slapping anyone who brings a certain amount of the deadly drug into the state with mandatory prison sentences.
A Florida mother is in custody after her 9-month-old baby boy died of a fentanyl overdose in October of 2023.
The tragic story of the three Kansas City Chiefs fans who were found lying dead in the snow behind the house is probably drug related.
Jesse Jane, one of the “biggest porn stars” of the early 2000s, has died alongside her boyfriend in what could be a “drug-related” incident.
Officials have charged the parents of a four-year-old boy after he overdosed on fentanyl on his birthday in November at a home in Golf Manor, Ohio.
A coalition of Oregon political and business leaders are demanding that legislators recriminalize possession of hard drugs and public drug use after the decriminalization measure passed just three years ago failed miserably.
