Tag: fentanyl

The Georgia Department of Public Health (Georgia DPH) has issued a statement warning citizens about a potentially deadly substance distributed by way of street...

A new study reveals that over 50 percent of all drug overdose fatalities might be because of fentanyl — a synthetic opioid that can be...

There were 28,647 drug poisoning deaths attributed to opioids in 2014. The rates of opioid abuse in the United States continue to be on...

On Wednesday, Pennsylvania’s Governor, Tom Wolf, invited House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis) to visit a drug treatment center in his state where many patients...

Opioid-related deaths in Minnesota increased fivefold between 1999 and 2014. And in 2015, there were 216 deaths related to opioid pain relievers, according to...

Six former executives and managers of pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics, Inc. were arrested on allegations including conspiracy to commit racketeering, bribing doctors, and fraud...

Deaths linked to the synthetic opioid fentanyl rose 180 percent between 2012 and 2015, and fentanyl-related deaths this year are up 114 percent over...

More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the past year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “This...

More than a dozen overdoses were reported within a 24-hour window in July in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, of which two people died and at last...

A former pharmaceuticals sales manager who is accused by federal authorities of paying kickbacks to get doctors to write prescriptions for an opioid drug...