Tag: fentanyl

  As the opioid crisis continues to ravage the United States from coast to coast, the number of overdoses caused by synthetic opioids has outpaced...

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy convened a town hall meeting in Danbury, Connecticut last month to discuss measures that would go toward expanding addiction treatment options. Murphy...

  Despite a downward trend during the summer months, West Virginia experienced a record number of fatal overdoses in 2017, according to data from the...

As the opioid crisis rises in Portland, Maine, community organizations have partnered to assist drug rehab patients. They formed the Greater Portland Addiction Collaborative...

A Delaware woman has been found guilty of manslaughter after injecting her father with the fentanyl that caused his death by opioid overdose. On October...

According to data from the New Hampshire Medical Examiner’s Office, the state saw the same number of overdose deaths in 2017 as it did...

A Manhattan physician, 81 year old Dr. Martin Tesher, has been charged with unlawful prescription of narcotics to patient Nicholas Bendetto. Bendetto suffered a fatal...

On Tuesday, November 28, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the head of the White House’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis,...

The FDA has declared a shortage of fentanyl citrate. However, even as the fentanyl shortage declared by the FDA affects those who legitimately acquire...

  On Friday, November 3, a Chinese official denied the country bore complete responsibility for fentanyl in the United States. The statement was made during a...