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Michael Marquesen first noticed about a year ago that fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid, had hit the streets of Los Angeles. People suddenly started…
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While drug-related deaths continue to rise throughout Indiana, one county saw a decrease in drug fatalities in 2017.Overdose deaths in southern Indiana's…
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Andrea Towson was known in West Baltimore as the go-to person for help getting high. Last year, she nearly died from a fentanyl overdose. "Thank God for another day," she says.
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Opioids are flowing into Ohio in a way that would be familiar to anyone who's shopped online.
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Police dogs in K9 units trained to find potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl risk overdosing. Massachusetts State Police plan to teach officers to administer Narcan to their canines.
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Fentanyl is showing up in heroin and counterfeit pain pills, and users may not even know they're taking the extremely potent drug.
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The plan, developed by a task force of experts, calls for decreasing the number of overdose deaths by a third in three years. In the past few years,…
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In a brick plaza next to the Chelsea, Massachusetts city hall, Anthony, a bald but still-youthful man in grey sweats, tells me he spent the previous night…
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The synthetic opioid fentanyl is used for surgery and to treat severe pain. Abuse has always been a problem. Now that it's being used to cut heroin, the risk of overdose or death has soared.