Fentanyl

Confusion following field test results blamed after $2m drugs bust was just bags of “complex carbohydrates.”

Carey Dean Moore has been on death row for almost 40 years.

"Make no mistake, misuse of fentanyl will kill you!” warned a DEA special agent.

"Fentanyl is not a choice. It’s a contamination crisis.”

South Carolina officials can’t find any pharmaceutical companies to make the lethal drugs needed to execute one of its prisoners because they are scared of backlash. 

Investigators are closing in on Big Pharma, claiming that shady tactics fueled the opioid crisis.

An opioid at the heart of America's drug epidemic will be used for death row executions in Nevada and Nebraska if the never-before-tried combination of drugs is approved.

The human race has grappled with addiction for a very long time.

These six new enforcement teams will be located in states across the U.S.

"Extremely dangerous and addictive" opioids meant for cancer patients were prescribed to patients who didn’t need them, according to the indictment.

While drug traffickers and dealers once used fentanyl to spike the potency of the heroin they sold, they are now packaging fentanyl for sale by itself.

'This seizure alone contains enough potency to kill half of the population of New York City, if laboratory analysis proves it is all fentanyl,' special agent says.

Law enforcement officials identified two illicit synthetic opioids that are so strong they can be absorbed through the skin.

Last year marked the sixth consecutive year that fatal overdoses increased in the city, and the rate rose among all demographic groups.

Mixing the powerful drug fentanyl into heroin has become such a common practice among drug dealers that a slang term is now used for when a customer overdoses: “the fentanyl dance.”

China is flooding the U.S. with fentanyl—25 to 50 times stronger than heroin—and traffickers are using it to counterfeit painkillers.

Investigators seized pills containing fentanyl at Prince's home after the singer's death, but they were marked hydrocodone.

Harsh mandatory sentences for drug offenses do little to promote public safety, but come at a great cost to individuals, families and communities.

The painkiller Fentanyl has been responsible for an epidemic of overdose deaths around the United States.

Deaths from the synthetic opiate look like early signs of a lethal new chapter in the U.S.'s surging addiction crisis.