Fentanyl

In Acadiana, drug-involved overdose deaths increased by 219% from 2016 to 2021. Fentanyl overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to ...

“From someone struggling with addiction to someone experimenting for the first time, this drug is claiming the lives of the young and old. To date, OPH, with the assistance of Acadiana Human Service District, has distributed more than 2,000 doses of Narcan to local police and fire departments. “No community is safe from this crisis and the tragedy of overdose deaths is affecting our families and friends here in Acadiana,” said Region 4 Medical Director Dr. We are encouraging families to have conversations about the dangers of illicit drugs that could contain fatal fentanyl doses. The holiday season is a time to be together with family, but for people struggling with addiction and/or stress, the holidays can be the hardest time of the season. The PSAs feature local first responders talking about the opioid crisis, physicians discussing what they have seen in their line of work, public officials urging parents to speak with their children about buying fake pills on the internet and Acadiana residents sharing the experience of losing loved ones to fatal fentanyl overdoses.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials seized more than 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl this year, which they say was enough to potentially ...

Terese White had more than three pounds of the drug strapped to her belly, according to investigators.

She pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl and is slated for sentencing in March. 4 while off-duty, then, later that same day, prior to her scheduled flight to Boston, she attempted to get onto another plane with drugs on her person, according to the U.S. White, 41, of Dallas, admitted in a plea agreement to flying into San Diego from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Oct.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California seized more than 28000 pounds of fentanyl over the past year, a nearly six-fold increase in the amount of the drug ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over a 12-month period, about two-thirds of these linked to fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. [states grapple with an addiction and overdose crisis](/article/fentanyl-deaths-keep-rising-states-look-for-solutions-d3ccd6edfdc6516b3ea07943c7e46544) that has grown deadlier due to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, which can be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, heroin or prescription opioids. (AP) — California seized more than 28,000 pounds of fentanyl over the past year, a nearly six-fold increase in the amount of the drug recovered a year earlier, officials said Friday.

A flight attendant faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle drugs through San Diego airport, ...

TSA officers said she was “hesitant” and “shaking” as they took her to the security imaging machine. Officers took White to a private room and found multiple packages containing the fentanyl taped to her body. According to federal prosecutors, White admitted in her plea agreement that she attempted to “use her status as a flight attendant, a position of trust, to facilitate the offense.” She took a flight from Texas to San Diego on Oct. Later that day, she returned to the airport for a flight to Boston. “Drug traffickers use air, land and sea for personal gain, putting people’s lives in danger,” said Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Shelly Howe. White, 41, of Dallas admitted to one count of possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, according to the U.S.

Compared to 2021, fentanyl seized by law enforcement with help from the California National Guard increased by 594 percent, according to the statement. "The ...

And in Los Angeles alone, a major transshipment hub for fentanyl and other drugs, DEA confiscated 7 million fentanyl pills and more than 1,000 pounds of fentanyl powder in 2022, accounting for about 10 percent of the drug seized across the country, the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this week. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), authorities seized over 50.6 million fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills and more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder in 2022, representing about 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl. "The opioid crisis has touched every part of California, and our nation, this year.

DEA & other agencies confiscated more than 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl in 2022. It remains the deadliest drug threat facing the U.S..

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Captain Robert Warrick of the Morongo Basin Sheriff's Station, was the guest on the Z1077 Up Close Show on Friday (December 16). As part of his.

We’ll investigate it as much as we can here, but certainly when there’s a death behind it, it becomes a lot more serious and have some very skilled investigators who will do their best to go back, and a lot of times, if somebody dies here in the Morongo Basin, they might have had a similar incident somewhere else within the county, and maybe we can trace it back to the same supplier.” As part of his conversation with Gary Daigneault, Captain Warrick discussed the dangers of fentanyl, which has caused a sharp increase in overdose deaths over the last few years. “It is.

California seized more than 28000 pounds of fentanyl over the past year. That's a nearly six-fold increase in the amount of the drug recovered a year ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over a 12-month period, about two-thirds of these linked to fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. The report comes as states grapple with an addiction and overdose crisis that has grown deadlier due to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, which can be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, heroin or prescription opioids. California seized more than 28,000 pounds of fentanyl over the past year, a nearly six-fold increase in the amount of the drug recovered a year earlier, officials said Friday.

Federal drug agents in Los Angeles have seized 38 million deadly doses of fentanyl this year, authorities said.

The amount of fentanyl seized in the Los Angeles area was more than double the amount confiscated in 2021, according to the DEA. "As people prepare to celebrate the holidays and gather with friends and family, let us be mindful of the fentanyl threat that is destroying families across the nation and leaving empty seats at the dinner table this year," said DEA Los Angeles Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner. These seizures represent our tenacious efforts to make our communities safer and our ongoing commitment to save lives."

California officials announced government agencies seized enough fentanyl in California alone to kill every person in North America at least twice ...

A woman accused of using her flight attendant privileges to smuggle fentanyl at the San Diego International Airport pleaded guilty in federal court, ...

Amid the nation's fentanyl crisis, group calls on the Justice Department to clamp down on social media's role in the spread of the synthetic opioid.

[have some encouraging signs](https://apnews.com/article/science-health-covid-opioids-death-rates-ba8af16246240aae4b044238ce19e6b6), the number of fentanyl-laced pills seized in the U.S. And we do that with education awareness and joining forces with the social media companies.” There’s no data on exactly how much fentanyl is trafficked through social-media sites, he said, but Snapchat’s immense popularity among younger people could also help explain why dealers use the site and there are more deaths connected with the platform, he said. Still, “All these social media companies need to do more.” His family knew little about fentanyl, which federal authorities say can be lethal in amounts smaller than the tip of a pencil. Those parents included Amy Neville, whose son Alex was 14 when he bought a pill that he thought was Oxycontin through the platform in June 2020. It was filed by the Social Media Victims Law Center, which is now representing 28 families whose children have bought counterfeit pills through Snapchat. Jennifer Stout, vice president of global public policy at Snap, said the company uses technology to identify and remove dealers and support police investigations. The group, known for ads featuring McGruff the Crime Dog, is especially concerned about the sale of fake pills laced with fentanyl on The vast majority of those deaths, 84%, involved fentanyl, according to the report released last week. One day, he got his hair cut, went to lunch with his dad and hung out with friends. As the U.S.

Snapchat is accused by the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) of playing a part in assisting drug dealers with illicit fentanyl in a letter to the ...

Fentanyl is 50 times more powerful than heroin, and 100 times more potent than morphine according to the U.S. The CDC noticed an uptick in deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a release from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), Operation Lone Star has led to the seizure of 353 million doses of lethal fentanyl. Currently, the NCPC has a website dedicated to sharing the stories of fentanyl victims. Snapchat posted a press release on its website on October 7, 2022, conveying new measures to help combat the fentanyl pandemic. The NCPC urges the Biden Administration to investigate Snapchat and other social media for playing a part in the illegal facilitation of fentanyl. Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) is one of the main culprits behind illicit fentanyl entering the U.S. On September 23, 2022, the White House announced measures to combat the ongoing opioid crisis. According to the CDC, the number of deaths from overdoes on synthetic opioids like fentanyl increased by 56% from 2019 to 2020. - Fentanyl deaths rise in the U.S. It is the aiding and abetting of the worst kinds of criminal acts.” Deaths from opioids like fentanyl are currently a growing problem in the U.S.

Recently, Snap has falsely attributed claims to the Drug Enforcement Administration about how the company is helping stop fentanyl deaths. When asked about such ...

"The sale of drugs on Snapchat violates multiple laws related to narcotics, trade, copyrights, trademarks, and other felonies," said DelPonte. has drawn the ire of family members, law enforcement, community groups, and others for failing to cramp down on known drug dealers using their platform to sell fake pills laced with lethal doses of fentanyl. Two milligrams—about the size of a few grains of sugar—are enough to kill the average teenager. In about the same amount of time it takes to read this letter, someone will die from fentanyl poisoning because they purchased a fake pill on a social media platform like Snapchat." as the platform of choice for fentanyl drug dealers. Justice Department to investigate the business practices of Snap, Inc.

The report comes as states grapple with an addiction and overdose crisis that has grown deadlier due to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, which can be 50 to ...

The complaint alleges she told police the boxes were "not what you think" and that a co-worker had given her a "mercury pack" to wear for weight loss.

Dr. Colin Haile, University of Houston Research Associate Professor, amongst his team, has worked over the past 20 years on similar vaccines to the one they are ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill test drug samples using a device known as a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer.CreditCredit.

[make it more difficult to test drugs](https://www.statnews.com/2022/09/08/fentanyl-test-strips-could-help-save-lives-in-many-states-theyre-still-illegal/), said Aaron Ferguson, a leader of the Urban Survivors Union, a group that represents harm reduction organizations and drug users. Harm reduction groups in the area had been unaware of a potentially dangerous opioid, metonitazene, that surfaced in the sample, he said. Dasgupta recalled a sample submitted by a harm reduction group in western North Carolina, which had received it from a drug user just across the border in Tennessee. And the effects of drugs can differ from batch to batch, which can have trace amounts of substances that sometimes cause odd and surprising sensations. Samples from the same drug dealer can contain different amounts of fentanyl, with other substances mixed in that might vary from dose to dose. In more than a dozen states, even the basic tools of drug checking, such as fentanyl test strips, are outlawed as drug paraphernalia; conservatives Law enforcement agencies have long been hesitant to share the results quickly or publicly for the purposes of helping drug users know more about the local supply. Drug users can learn what is in a substance before they use it, alert other users to possible dangers in the supply or find out why a drug led to an overdose or some other reaction. But the work needs more funding, experts say, in part because of how difficult it is to scale. President Biden is the first president to endorse the strategy, lending it a federal imprimatur that health experts say could transform how the United States contends with drug use. Drug policy experts say that while the exact number is difficult to determine, there are dozens of health departments, academic laboratories or harm reduction groups using machines for drug checking around the country, including in cities such as New York and Chicago. “Quick OD, half bag, weirdly lethargic after,” the anonymous drug user from Wilmington, N.C., wrote on a slip of paper the size of an index card, which came with the tube.