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The Justice Department has charged 28 members of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation.
The U.S. has named a veterinary tranquilizer as an "emerging threat" when it's mixed with the powerful opioid fentanyl, clearing the way for more efforts to stop the spread of xylazine. The Office of National Drug Control Policy announced the designation Wednesday, the first time the office has ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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.
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