A Westmoreland County woman earlier this week pleaded guilty but mentally ill to trying to kill a child with fentanyl.

Rather than further criminalizing substance use disorder, we must legitimize trauma-informed care as a key pathway to ending ...

Savanna, aimed at expanding access to fentanyl testing strips across Illinois — and later turned into law — has now gone into effect. Getting its start as SB 3350, a bill sponsored by McCombie and ...

A new study from researchers at UC San Francisco has found that a treatment approach designed to help people addicted to fentanyl, using low doses of buprenorphine, is not working as expected. The ...

Reversing the trend will require police on the reservation, which has none, and closer detox and rehabilitation centers that ...

Canada’s financial watchdog, FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada), has issued a stark ...

Placer County Sheriff’s Office officials report that on Thursday, January 23 rd 29-year- old Christopher Williams was ...

KGNS spoke with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Roots Recovery Center on their role in decreasing the amount of opioid-related overdose deaths.

Laredo, along with communities across the country, had experienced a rise in overdose deaths related to opioids with 2024 breaking the mold.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, when fentanyl overdoses surged, doctors were desperate to find ways of helping their patients.

Sean Hanchett died in custody in December 2022, and did not receive adequate medical attention, the suit alleged.

The drug is increasingly manufactured in and trafficked from the U.S.’s northern neighbor, though the numbers remain small ...