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Fentanyl

July 2024

  • Donald Trump signs a plaque as he tours a section of the border wall in Alamo, Texas, on 12 January 2021.

    Donald Trump accused of falsely vilifying migrants for surge in US fentanyl deaths

    Former head of US border security says claim ‘terribly misleading’ and statistics show nine of 10 convicted traffickers are US citizens
  • A turbo-prop aircraft floodlit behind a high fence, while two figures in the foreground, hidden in darkness, observe.

    ‘Nada cambia’: Mexican drugs lord ‘El Mayo’ has been captured, but does targeting kingpins work?

    Ismael Zambada García, architect of the powerful Sinaloa narco-syndicate was arrested last week. A writer who has closely followed Mexico’s crime organisations traces his deadly career

  • Is a new opioid crisis about to devastate the UK? – video

    When the Afghan Taliban ceased production of heroin, global supplies were depleted, with new, powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl and nitazenes flooding in to fill the vacuum.

May 2024

  • A person holds a packaged NARCAN naloxone nasal spray

    More than 100,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses in 2023

    Sobering figure obscures the fact that the number of overdose deaths in the US declined for the first time since 2018

April 2024

  • Close-up of naloxone held by person in hands

    Baby dies and two others hospitalized in fentanyl overdoses in Washington state

    Police sound alarm after 13-month-old dies in Everett near Seattle and two other babies taken to hospital in past week

March 2024

  • What appears to be a very skinny white man bent over at the waist, on a city street, clutching his hands together. We cannot see his face.

    California wants to force people into mental health care. Advocates say it will backfire

    Proposed reform of state’s system would fund locked institutions, and probably take funds from preventive care

February 2024

  • Mayor Karen Bass will join service providers and experts to sign her Executive Directive launching Inside Safe, Los Angeles first citywide proactive housing-led strategy to bring people inside from tents and encampments for good, and to prevent encampm<br>Los Angeles, CA - December 21: Rue Ryan, 32, sits on the sidewalk putting together a floral memorial with dead roses for her old friend near the 101 overpass and Cahuenga Blvd on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Los Angeles, CA. A street cleanup is taking place at a homeless encampment starting across the street. She says she has been waiting unsuccessfully for her outreach worker to bring her an ID. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

    Revealed: 300% surge in deaths of unhoused people in LA amid fentanyl and housing crises

  • Middle-aged Native man wearing baseball cap and red plaid collared shirt holds open small zip-up bag stocked with small, plastic-wrapped supplies. Behind him, another man sits on the lip of the open back of the van, with his arms crossed over one leg, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.

    ‘We hold you sacred’: how a mobile drug unit is fighting the opioid crisis in the Cherokee Nation

January 2024

  • officials next to signs reading fentanyl and meth and a big table

    Chinese and US officials meet in effort to stop flow of deadly fentanyl

  • Man talks into microphone

    Country star Jelly Roll makes emotional plea to Congress for anti-fentanyl law

December 2023

  • A man holds a piece of foil containing fentanyl in San Francisco.

    San Francisco faces deadliest year for drug overdoses due to rise of fentanyl

    Experts warn new and troubling trend is emerging: more victims are found to have consumed both fentanyl and methamphetamine

November 2023

  • Older white female hands open a yellow envelope.

    Voting centers stock naloxone amid recent fentanyl-laced letter attacks

    Election workers continue to quit as letters sent this month to voting centers or government buildings in six states
  • Xi Jinping and Joe Biden in Bali in November 2022.

    Biden and Xi to announce deal cracking down on fentanyl export

    Under deal, China will go after chemical companies to halt flow of fentanyl while US will lift restrictions on forensic police institute
  • Emergency and law enforcement agencies respond to a possible hazmat situation at the King County Elections office in Renton, Wash., Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Four county elections offices in Washington state were evacuated Wednesday after they received envelopes containing suspicious powders — including two that field-tested positive for fentanyl — while workers were processing ballots from Tuesday’s election.

    Letters containing fentanyl sent to several US states’ election offices

    Offices in Georgia, Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington were all sent letters containing suspicious substances

October 2023

  • Mayor Adams Unveils Extensive Strategy To Combat Car Thefts in New York City, USA - 06 Sep 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ron Adar/Shutterstock (14086027z) A dedicated plate reader equipped New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle from the 114 Precinct seen during Mayor Adams announcement of a comprehensive new plan to crack down on auto thefts throughout the five boroughs in the Queens borough of New York City Mayor Adams Unveils Extensive Strategy To Combat Car Thefts in New York City, USA - 06 Sep 2023 Despite an overall decrease in major crime so far this year, grand larceny auto (GLA) is up approximately 19 percent through August, driven primarily by an increase in the theft of certain Kia and Hyundai models, driven in large part by viral social media, that is not only impacting New York City but the entire nation.

    Ex-NYPD officer allegedly made deals for fentanyl and heroin while on duty

    Former officer and man she shared apartment with arrested on charges of conspiracy and narcotics distribution in the Bronx
  • An estimated 12 million children are in some type of daycare in the US.

    Mother and daughter arrested after infant deaths in California daycare pool

    Nina Fathizadeh, 41, and Shahin Gheblehshenas, 64, face charges after deaths of two infants who fell into pool in San Jose
  • A glass vial with a white label saying "fentanyl" alongside a syringe with an orange tip and many white pills, on a white marble counter.

    US announces sanctions against 14 foreign companies for importing fentanyl

    Officials said indictments against Chinese and Canadian firms target a ‘major China-based syndicate’ trafficking the opiate

September 2023

  • A trap door leans open over narcotics, including fentanyl, and drug paraphernalia stored in the floor of a daycare center.

    Third person charged for infant’s death from fentanyl in New York City daycare

    Prosecutors say Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, 38, played a key role in selling the drugs that were stored at the childcare facility
  • rosary on a grate over a door

    More fentanyl found under trapdoor in New York daycare where infant died

    Police make discovery in investigation after child dies and three others hospitalized after appearing to have been exposed to drug
  • A close-up picture of a young white man with a shaved head and a red beard and mustache.

    Actor Angus Cloud died of accidental overdose, coroner says

    Report says Euphoria actor’s death was due to ‘combined effects of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and benzodiazepines’
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