With opioid pain medication increasingly harder to obtain in the United States, a growing number of Americans are heading...
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US: Lawmakers Worry X-Waiver Elimination Could Stir Buprenorphine Diversion
Lisa McElhaney / / / News AlertHouse members also look for ways to stop drug trafficking on Snapchat Could dropping the “X-waiver” have unintended consequences?...
Over 99% of what we see are fake. They contain fentanyl. Sitting among the warehouses of Dulles, Virginia, is...
US: New synthetic opioid complicates public health response to overdoses
Lisa McElhaney / / / News AlertA synthetic opioid up to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl is scrambling the public health response to the addiction...
US: Family says son who died from fentanyl overdose bought drugs through Snapchat
Lisa McElhaney / / / News AlertAuthorities are working to prevent the troubling rise in deaths as teens continue connecting with drug dealers on the...
IA: Nurse practitioner who overdosed at Iowa hospital sexually assaulted at least 9 patients
Lisa McElhaney / / / News AlertDevin Caraccio, 27, of Centerville, IA, died in October of a reported overdose A male nurse practitioner who died...
VA: Virginia man dealt fatal fentanyl dose to Prince William 14-year-old
Lisa McElhaney / / / News AlertA Woodbridge man pleaded guilty on Jan. 5 to dealing a fatal dose of fentanyl to a teen, who...
US: Fentanyl awareness group asks Biden admin to track poisoning, overdose deaths like COVID-19 deaths
Lisa McElhaney / / / News Alert‘I think they should declare this a weapon of mass destruction immediately’ Families Against Fentanyl, an organization raising awareness about...
Zach Plunk, 17, died of a fentanyl overdose outside his family’s house in Mesa in August 2020. His final...
A group of lawmakers have forwarded correspondence to TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and the Department of Justice (DOJ), noting they...
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