A New York City man has been hit with a 45-year prison sentence for running a fentanyl mill out of a daycare center, leading to the overdose death of a toddler last year, officials said.
A Memphis, Tennessee, woman is now raising five of her grandchildren after losing her two daughters to fentanyl just months apart.
Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting Douglas, Arizona, a border community, to mostly discuss the nation’s fentanyl crisis — saying she will “stop the flow of illegal fentanyl” into the United States. Meanwhile, drug-related deaths hit a record high on Harris and President Joe Biden’s watch.
A baby boy from the Los Angeles area who died after being found unresponsive at a park in May had ingested fentanyl, the medical examiner said.
A Portland, Oregon, toddler has died of a suspected fentanyl overdose, authorities said.
A Wyoming community has experienced numerous “unnatural deaths” throughout the course of 2024, according Natrona County Coroner Jim Whipps.
A South Carolina mother was arrested in connection with the May fentanyl death of her ten-month-old baby Aminah Gathers, Live 5 News reported on Monday.
Overdose deaths increased in the Portland, Oregon, area during a 90-day state of emergency declared to combat the fentanyl problem.
Drug overdoses are surging in New York, with seven deaths being reported within five hours in just one western county.
Parents in Minnesota are facing charges related to the fentanyl overdose death of their one-year-old baby girl in December of 2023.
Two parents are facing homicide charges after their 15-month-old baby was found dead from ingesting various drugs, according to officials.
A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for selling fentanyl to an Iowa man who fatally overdosed, officials said.
The bill is aimed at combating fentanyl overdoses among children after the deaths of three Bay Area infants and toddlers.
A New York toddler’s mysterious fentanyl overdose has tormented her mother for almost a year. Though the pain of losing her daughter will never just go away, strangers from around the world have stepped in to help lessen the weight.
Two Michigan men are dead and one is in critical condition after two young children discovered their father and his friends unresponsive due to suspected fentanyl overdoses.
President Joe Biden’s administration is now advising schools across the United States to keep the overdose reversal drug naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, in stock amid a surging number of fentanyl deaths among American children.
The Scottish government has proposed decriminalising drugs for personal use to tackle one of Europe’s highest overdose death rates.
Rebecca Kiessling, a mother of five who lost her two sons to fentanyl poisoning, went off on a Cato Institute scholar during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing after he suggested that Americans are responsible for the nation’s fentanyl crisis.
Seattle-area health officials recently admitted they are struggling to find space to store dead bodies in the morgue due to an increase in fentanyl overdose deaths.
A 27-year-old man in Greeley, Colorado, will spend a long time in prison after dealing fentanyl, a drug that continues taking American lives.
Italian court sentenced migrant who filmed himself sexually abusing a woman he had given drugs to and who later died of an overdose.
Three Afghan migrants have been convicted by a court for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in a case that has shocked Austria.
The number of deaths caused by drugs in Finland has tripled since 2000 with drug deaths peaking in 2020.
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) seemingly chuckled as Republican J.D. Vance called him out for taking campaign cash from drug corporations linked to the nation’s deadly opioid crisis during the final debate ahead of the Ohio Senate election next month.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Eagle Pass, Texas, recently found Halloween decorations filled with a large amount of methamphetamine.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Mehmet Oz (R) for the state’s open United States Senate seat, is refusing to commit to supporting legislation that would make it easier for law enforcement to lock up dealers of illicit fentanyl.
Republican J.D. Vance says “pharmaceutical blood money” is fueling Rep. Tim Ryan’s (D-OH) Senate campaign in Ohio.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) is leading an effort to declare illicit fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) being used against hundreds of thousands of American citizens, a plan exclusively shared with Breitbart News reveals.
Even as more than 100,000 Americans are dying from drug overdoses and poisonings every year, many linked to fentanyl, House Democrats have blocked a plan that would crack down on the deadly substance flowing almost exclusively from the United States-Mexico border into American communities.
Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, declared that his opponent, Sen Mark Kelly (D-AZ), “should be forced to attend the funerals” of American teenagers who overdosed on fentanyl because “of his support for” the Biden administration’s open borders policies.
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) is now backing a proposal to classify fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) as he runs for the United States Senate. The plan comes after years of Ryan’s opposition to cracking down on fentanyl.
U.S. Senators who are also doctors released a PSA about the fentanyl crisis on Friday, calling it the “deadliest drug our nation has ever seen.”
Fentanyl deaths in American communities 115 miles north of the United States-Mexico border have skyrocketed by 800 percent in recent years, officials reveal.
Four times as much fentanyl is flowing across the United States-Mexico border under President Joe Biden compared to two years prior when former President Trump was in office.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, California — Matt Capelouto never imagined he would be where he is today, on the front lines of a drug epidemic far deadlier than the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War, the Chinese coronavirus, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) says that while the establishment media stay focused on the war in Ukraine, nearly 6,000 miles away, there is “carnage happening in America” as drug trafficking at the United States-Mexico border translates to more than 100,000 Americans dying every 12 months from drug overdoses.
MDH converted a parking garage into a morgue to deal with a backlog of autopsies of people who have been murdered or have overdosed.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that there were 81,230 drug overdose deaths in the year ending May 2020 — a new record, driven by fentanyl, with deaths accelerating during the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns.
Drug overdoses have killed 621 people in San Francisco this year, nearly four times as many as have been killed by COVID-19, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
A poll shows that the majority of Americans do not blame drug companies for the deaths of thousands of people from opioid overdoses.
