Fentanyl Drug

The United States had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to Zambada's arrest, accusing him of trafficking cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and fentanyl

Adult film star Jesse Jane died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl and cocaine toxicity in January 2024, herautopsy report has confirmed. Her body was found in a decomposed state, it stated.

Paige Gibbons, a 19-year-old freshman at Hobart and William Smith Colleges believed she was taking a Percocet.

If re-elected, former US president Donald Trump has vowed to send "assassination squads" of US special forces into Mexico to take out the heads of drug cartels, according to a report.

Inhaling the synthetic opioid fentanyl -- approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use as pain relief and anaesthetic -- can cause irreversible brain damage, according to a new study today.

The findings come amid concerns about fentanyl use rising within Mexico. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US each year.

Two people recovering from heroin addiction told the BBC that they nearly died after taking the new drugs.

The United States will call for global action on synthetic drugs including fentanyl, which has killed thousands of Americans, at a UN conference Friday, the State Department said.

Nitazenes were first discovered in the UK in 2021, from a sample of white powder found in the back of a taxi in Wakefield.

China's narcotics control agency has warned against the manufacture and sale of substances that can be used to make illegal drugs, a day after President Xi Jinping said China would stem the export of items used to make the opioid fentanyl.

United States President Joe Biden said Wednesday China will take steps to tackle the flow of fentanyl - a synthetic opioid responsible for the death of over 70,000 people last year - into the country.

Two Indian nationals have been charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and launder drug proceeds, federal prosecutors have said.

The United States announced sanctions Tuesday on a China-based network for producing and distributing chemicals used to make drugs including those fueling a deadly national fentanyl crisis.

A New York woman is facing murder and drug charges after a one-year-old boy died from fentanyl poisoning at the daycare she operated and three other children became seriously ill, officials said Tuesday.

Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons of incarcerated Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, pleaded not guilty to U.S. fentanyl trafficking charges on Monday in federal court in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The United States had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to Zambada's arrest, accusing him of trafficking cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and fentanyl

Adult film star Jesse Jane died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl and cocaine toxicity in January 2024, herautopsy report has confirmed. Her body was found in a decomposed state, it stated.

Paige Gibbons, a 19-year-old freshman at Hobart and William Smith Colleges believed she was taking a Percocet.

If re-elected, former US president Donald Trump has vowed to send "assassination squads" of US special forces into Mexico to take out the heads of drug cartels, according to a report.

Inhaling the synthetic opioid fentanyl -- approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use as pain relief and anaesthetic -- can cause irreversible brain damage, according to a new study today.

The findings come amid concerns about fentanyl use rising within Mexico. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US each year.

Two people recovering from heroin addiction told the BBC that they nearly died after taking the new drugs.

The United States will call for global action on synthetic drugs including fentanyl, which has killed thousands of Americans, at a UN conference Friday, the State Department said.

Nitazenes were first discovered in the UK in 2021, from a sample of white powder found in the back of a taxi in Wakefield.

China's narcotics control agency has warned against the manufacture and sale of substances that can be used to make illegal drugs, a day after President Xi Jinping said China would stem the export of items used to make the opioid fentanyl.

United States President Joe Biden said Wednesday China will take steps to tackle the flow of fentanyl - a synthetic opioid responsible for the death of over 70,000 people last year - into the country.

Two Indian nationals have been charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and launder drug proceeds, federal prosecutors have said.

The United States announced sanctions Tuesday on a China-based network for producing and distributing chemicals used to make drugs including those fueling a deadly national fentanyl crisis.

A New York woman is facing murder and drug charges after a one-year-old boy died from fentanyl poisoning at the daycare she operated and three other children became seriously ill, officials said Tuesday.

Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons of incarcerated Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, pleaded not guilty to U.S. fentanyl trafficking charges on Monday in federal court in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune.