• Live updates: 4th GOP debate in the 2024 presidential race

    Live updates: 4th GOP debate in the 2024 presidential race

    Dec 07, 2023 01:14 AM EDT

    ... more on China than Mexico as a source of the drug. DeSantis defended his vow to shoot smugglers at the border, even though 90% of fentanyl seized at the border during the latest budget year was at official crossings — not between them — and nearly 3 of 4 fentanyl seizures at ...

  • Illinois scraps plan for building migrant winter camp due to toxic soil risk

    Illinois scraps plan for building migrant winter camp due to toxic soil risk

    Dec 06, 2023 12:39 AM EDT

    ... the site was previously home to a railyard with tanks and oil houses, a zinc smelter and truck trailer parking. WATCH: Biden, López Obrador talk fentanyl, migration during San Francisco meeting The city released a study late Friday from consultant Terracon that detailed the discovery and removal of sections of ...

  • How dozens of U.S. adolescents are dying of drug overdoses each month, shown in 3 charts

    How dozens of U.S. adolescents are dying of drug overdoses each month, shown in 3 charts

    Dec 02, 2023 05:45 PM EDT

    ... that not using drugs or alcohol while young helps promote healthy development. What parents can do Having naloxone available can also be important. It prevents fentanyl and other opioids from causing an overdose by blocking access to opioid receptors in the brain. This potentially lifesaving drug is easy to use ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on legality of Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears arguments on legality of Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan

    Dec 01, 2023 10:58 PM EDT

    ... prescribed and used were generic drugs. Opioid-related overdose deaths have continued to climb, hitting 80,000 in recent years. Most of those are from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. The Purdue Pharma settlement would be among the largest reached by drug companies, wholesalers and pharmacies to resolve epidemic-related ...

  • Supreme Court to decide on legality of OxyContin maker's settlement plan with victims of opioid crisis

    Supreme Court to decide on legality of OxyContin maker's settlement plan with victims of opioid crisis

    Nov 23, 2023 05:56 PM EDT

    ... 000 in recent years. That's partly because people with substance abuse disorder found pills harder to get and turned to heroin and, more recently, fentanyl, an even more potent synthetic opioid. Drug companies, wholesalers and pharmacies have agreed to pay a total of more than $50 billion to settle ...

  • Blinken discusses improving relations with China, support of Israel amid ceasefire calls

    Blinken discusses improving relations with China, support of Israel amid ceasefire calls

    Nov 16, 2023 11:50 PM EDT

    And, by the way, this is something that I think China understands is important, that it be seen as playing a leading and productive role in dealing with the fentanyl crisis, because it's not only affecting us. It's affecting increasingly countries around the world. We're the canary ...

  • Election workers face violent threats and harassment amid dangerous political rhetoric

    Election workers face violent threats and harassment amid dangerous political rhetoric

    Nov 16, 2023 11:35 PM EDT

    ... someone who spends his job trying to make elections smarter and smoother and more accurate, what do you make of all of these offices receiving fentanyl-laced letters? David Becker, Center for Election Innovation and Research: Well, sadly, these kind of threats and harassment have been going on now for ...

  • Biden pushes for stable U.S. relationship with China during summit with Xi

    Biden pushes for stable U.S. relationship with China during summit with Xi

    Nov 15, 2023 11:45 PM EDT

    Fentanyl is made from chemicals in China exported to Latin American cartels that convert them to drugs. A senior U.S. official says Beijing is making -- quote -- "deeply consequential decisions," although Beijing has made previous promises on fentanyl. In exchange, the U.S. is reportedly lifting sanctions on an arm ...

  • GOP Rep. Gallagher discusses government funding debate and competition with China

    GOP Rep. Gallagher discusses government funding debate and competition with China

    Nov 15, 2023 11:40 PM EDT

    ... while working with China to solve major challenges like climate change, like the problems posed by artificial intelligence, trying to stem the flow of illicit fentanyl into the U.S.? Rep. Mike Gallagher: The most important form of communication to the Chinese Communist Party, far more important than anything Biden ...

  • Analysis: Can a summit ease U.S.-China tensions? Here's what to expect

    Analysis: Can a summit ease U.S.-China tensions? Here's what to expect

    Nov 12, 2023 04:45 PM EDT

    ... in Taiwan’s upcoming national elections — Beijing’s goal being a victory for the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party, which has a softer position toward China. Fentanyl. The U.S. side will probably want China to commit to stemming the flow of chemicals used to make fentanyl, a dangerous drug that ...