Opioid Epidemic

"Instead of planning our child's first birthday we have to plan a funeral for our child," she said. "We have been told several different stories from the babysitter herself."

The DEA has issued alerts after recent suspected overdoses and deaths involving fentanyl in children in Hays County.

Police responded to the junior high after the school reported that a student was in possession of about 150 fentanyl pills disguised as Percocet.

The colorful narcotics were seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 18 different states this month alone.

Robert Gilliam says he and his wife are putting drug dealers on notice after their 22-year-old daughter died from an overdose.

The Ohio counties convinced the jury that the three pharmacies played an outsized role in creating a public nuisance in the way they dispensed pain medication.

In a viral Facebook post, a Kentucky woman says she had to be hospitalized after picking up a dollar bill from the ground that she thinks was laced with the drug fentanyl.

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert, a freshman representing Colorado’s 3rd district, is pushing to classify the synthetic opioid fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

A woman was arrested after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found 0.006 pounds of fentanyl that was wrapped inside a condom the woman placed inside her vaginal cavity.  

Police in Lorain, Ohio, shared a photo of a seized fentanyl pill pressed with what appears to look like the word “Tylenol.”