• State lawmakers consider harsher penalties for fentanyl possession

    State lawmakers consider harsher penalties for fentanyl possession

    Mar 20, 2023 03:46 PM EDT

    ... as some who may not even know they are taking fentanyl. They warn that the state’s crime labs test only for the presence of fentanyl, not the exact amount in a mixture of drugs. Thus, people with over 4 grams of drugs containing a few milligrams of fentanyl could ...

  • How harm reduction advocates are working to prevent fentanyl overdose deaths

    How harm reduction advocates are working to prevent fentanyl overdose deaths

    Feb 17, 2023 06:13 PM EDT

    ... and potential overdoses. For New Mexico, a key part of the harm reduction approach is distributing fentanyl test strips and the overdose reversal drug naloxone. Fentanyl is potent and can result in accidental overdoses. “If people use fentanyl test strips, then they're aware that fentanyl might be in their ...

  • Senate hearing on fentanyl outlines international supply chain that brings drug to U.S.

    Senate hearing on fentanyl outlines international supply chain that brings drug to U.S.

    Feb 15, 2023 11:40 PM EDT

    ... addiction long term. It helps them avoid relapses and it keeps them from going out on the streets and buying things that are laced with fentanyl. So the health care and the medical care around this crisis is getting better and better. It's still not perfect, but it does ...

  • How multiple presidential administrations failed to stop fentanyl's rise in the U.S.

    How multiple presidential administrations failed to stop fentanyl's rise in the U.S.

    Dec 12, 2022 11:50 PM EDT

    ... the Trump administration is that the government spent $11 billion on a border wall with Mexico. And the border wall is virtual useless for stopping fentanyl, because the fentanyl, again, is coming through the ports of entry. What we need -- as one congressional aide described to me, we needed a ...

  • Schools stockpile medication to combat rise in fentanyl overdoses

    Schools stockpile medication to combat rise in fentanyl overdoses

    Dec 06, 2022 11:30 PM EDT

    ... t start using more drugs during the pandemic. In fact, research shows they used them less frequently. The high rate of deaths are evidence of fentanyl's potency. As little as two milligrams can be fatal, and it is being sprinkled into other drugs, including heroin, cocaine and meth. In ...

  • Myths about fentanyl persist as opioid continues to cause overdose deaths

    Myths about fentanyl persist as opioid continues to cause overdose deaths

    Oct 28, 2022 03:31 PM EDT

    ... social media in 2019, while home in Temecula, California, during a college break. She was told the pill was oxycodone, Capelouto said, but it contained fentanyl. The dealer was charged with distributing fentanyl resulting in death, but he reached a plea deal on a lesser drug charge and will face ...

  • Why this expert says 'rainbow fentanyl' is no real threat to your Halloween this year

    Why this expert says 'rainbow fentanyl' is no real threat to your Halloween this year

    Oct 14, 2022 05:01 PM EDT

    ... drugs tend to cost more than candy – marijuana edibles, for example, run somewhere in the neighborhood of a dollar or two per dose or more. Fentanyl is considerably more expensive. It is not unreasonable to wonder just what a fentanyl dealer’s overarching goal might be if in passing the ...

  • Fentanyl is making its way into various drugs sold in the U.S. Here's how it gets there

    Fentanyl is making its way into various drugs sold in the U.S. Here's how it gets there

    Sep 15, 2021 10:35 PM EDT

    ... it like the illness that it is. When we bring people back to healthy lives, the demand for the product goes away. Monica Villamizar: From crack, to heroin, to methamphetamine, to the most deadly illicit opioid America has seen, fentanyl.For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Monica Villamizar in Arizona.

  • A secret look at a Mexican cartel's low-tech, multimillion-dollar fentanyl operation

    A secret look at a Mexican cartel's low-tech, multimillion-dollar fentanyl operation

    Sep 14, 2021 10:25 PM EDT

    ... we have to leave. The presence of our camera risks his operation. According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the vast majority of fentanyl goes into the U.S. through legal ports of entry, in vehicles. Nobody knows how much fentanyl in both gel and pill form is ...

  • Drug company used rap video to push for higher fentanyl doses and sales

    Drug company used rap video to push for higher fentanyl doses and sales

    Feb 15, 2019 06:19 PM EDT

    BOSTON — Employees at a drug company, accused of bribing doctors, rapped and danced around a life-size bottle of the highly addictive fentanyl spray in a video meant to motivate sales reps into getting patients on higher doses. The video was shown to jurors this week in the closely watched ...