May 11, 2022 US drug overdoses topped 100k in 2021, reaching all-time high: CDC Over 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021, reaching an all-time high.
May 10, 2022 DEA launches ‘National Fentanyl Awareness Day’ to highlight overdoses, drug overtaking US The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is marking May 10 as “National Fentanyl Awareness Day” to bring more people’s attention to overdose deaths across the U.S.
May 10, 2022 Ohio AG issues warning about 'Frankenstein opioids,' more powerful than fentanyl In Ohio, forensic experts are sounding the alarm after tracking a year-over-year increase of a dangerous, new group of synthetic opioids called "nitazenes."
May 4, 2022 Virginia police seize 5,000 counterfeit fentanyl-laced pills, arrest four Police in northern Virginia seized 5,000 pills laced with fentanyl on Wednesday, just days after two teens suspected of taking counterfeit percocets died of fatal overdoses.
May 4, 2022 DOJ charges 12 medical professionals in illegal opioid distribution bust The Justice Department charged 14 defendants, including 12 medical professionals, in illegal opioid distribution crimes. Defendants include a dentist whose 24-year-old patient died of an overdose, a nurse who used fraudulent hospice patient prescriptions for personal use, and a doctor who preyed on low income and elderly patients to bill medically unnecessary procedures.
May 2, 2022 Florida man faces 1st-degree murder charge in woman's overdose death after allegedly quitting CPR A Florida man who allegedly watched a woman die from a fentanyl overdose, then loaded up his van with electronics from her apartment is facing first-degree murder and other charges, according to prosecutors.
May 2, 2022 Families who have lost kids to fentanyl share mixed feelings about today's test strips Illegally made fentanyl is the key driver of the recent increase in overdose deaths among America's youth — which is why some are pushing fentanyl test strips to detect the drug; yet concerns exist about the increasingly available test strips. ӣƵ Digital spoke to Ed Ternan, father of Charlie Ternan, who died in 2020 from a single fentanyl-laced pill.
April 28, 2022 Drug overdose deaths among adolescents on the rise The number of teens and adolescents dying from drug overdoses has increased dramatically over the past two years.
April 28, 2022 Deadly drug overdoses increase in adolescents The number of teens and adolescents dying from drug overdoses has increased drastically over the past two years.
April 19, 2022 Drug dealer who sold rapper Mac Miller fentanyl-laced pills sentenced to more than a decade in prison One of the three men convicted of selling fentanyl-laced drugs to rapper Mac Miller, who died of an overdose in 2018, was sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in prison this week.