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NEW Nasal Spray Reverses Fentanyl Overdoses

LIFESAVER –May 22, 2023 - The Food and Drug Administration endorsed Opvee, a nasal spray update of the drug nalmefene, which was first approved as an injection in the mid-1990s but later removed from the market due ... Read More...

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DEA’s Fentanyl Investigations

VIDEO – NEVER ENDING –May 15, 2023 - “The days of needing to go in some dark alley to get drugs, now you can just … Young people especially are going online,” Forget said. “Knowing who your children hang out with in... Read More...

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Inside the Emerging Xylazine Addiction Crisis

TIME TO LEGALIZE HEROIN? – May 18, 2023 - Xylazine has taken a stronghold in Philadelphia, a city at the forefront of addiction crisis and care. A 2021 study conducted by the city’s public health department fou... Read More...

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‘Stimulants Are Back’

FAST AND FURIOUS X –May 14, 2023 - Nearly 2 percent of the U.S. population reported cocaine use in 2020, and the highly addictive substance was involved in nearly one in five overdose deaths, according to the Center... Read More...

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New Bill to Use Mobile Pharmacies in Treating Opioid Addiction

VIDEO – TAKING IT TO THE STREETS –May 5, 2023 - A new bill aims to address the deadly fentanyl crisis by making it easier to get treatment to those who need it.The bill allows local jurisdictions to use mobile p... Read More...

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How Fentanyl Became So Deadly

VIDEO – MONEY –May 5, 2023 - Fentanyl was not created to be used recreationally or bought and sold on the street.In the early 1960s the synthetic opioid was manufactured and approved by the FDA a few years... Read More...

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St. Louis DEA Seizes 1,300,000 Fentanyl Pills

VIDEO – PEOPLE MUST REALLY LOVE THIS DRUG –May 9, 2023 - ST. LOUIS — A year-long operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) put thousands of accused drug dealers behind bars.The DEA St. Louis Divisio... Read More...

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Fentanyl Strikes Again: Dead Kennedys Drummer D.H. Peligro Died From OD

PRINCE, TOM PETTY, MAC MILLER –MAY 2, 2023 - His bandmates first said they thought he died after accidentally falling and hitting his head, although, at the time, our law enforcement sources told us it was more myst... Read More...

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Hooked on Fentanyl: Man Shares Journey to Sobriety

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE – May 3, 2023 - From the couch of his addiction treatment center, 49-year-old Michael Padrta is hopeful to finally be on a new path after almost 40 years of drug use and two stints in pri... Read More...

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‘El Chapo’ Sons Smuggling Cheap Fentanyl Into US

IT’S A LIVING ... FROM DYING – May 2, 2023 - Synthetic opioids ‒ mostly fentanyl ‒ now kill more Americans every year than the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined, feeding an argument among some politic... Read More...

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Drug Deaths Fell in Kentucky in 2022

SOME BEATS –April 21, 2023 - “That number is still far too high,” the governor said at his weekly news conference. “One is too many. But with the opioid epidemic, we see far, far too many.”Increased use of... Read More...

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Doctor’s Opioid Arrest Prompts Warning For Fentanyl Risk

JUST ANOTHER DRUG DEALER –April 23, 2023 - According to court documents, Okafor distributed oxycodone to people outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose from his med... Read More...

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Sam Quinones on the Fentanyl Crisis

VIDEO – WATCH AND LEARN –April 16, 2023 - Jesse J. Holland: we are back and we are joined by sam quinones, author. He is here to discuss the fentanyl crisis in the united states and the world. Good morning.Sam Q... Read More...

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6 Forms of Fentanyl Found on Ohio Streets

FLAVORS? – April 14, 2023 - The Ohio Narcotics Intelligence Center released a public safety bulleting Friday alerting Ohioans tot he various forms of fentanyl being found across the state.The Ohio Narcotics... Read More...

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Local Students Take Up Fight Against Fentanyl

VIDEO – PROTECT YOURSELVES –April 16, 2023 - There are many illegal drugs sold on San Diego’s streets and online that contains fentanyl, which is causing minors to die.“The topic of the project is very rarely ta... Read More...

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White House Declares ‘tranq’ an ‘Emerging Drug Threat’

VIDEO – HORRIFIC – April 13, 2023 - The increasingly combined mixture of xylazine, known on the street as “tranq,” with fentanyl has become most popular on the illicit drug market and has exacerbated the nationwide ... Read More...

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Coolio Died From Fentanyl

AUDIO – A GANGSTER’S PARADISE IS HEAVEN? – April 6, 2023 -C oolio died due to fentanyl, his manager Jarel (Jarez) Posey confirmed to Variety.The rapper’s family said he also had traces of heroin and metham... Read More...

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Texas Has Declared War on Fentanyl and It’s Making the Same Deadly Mistakes.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF –April 4, 2023 - In his February State of the State address, Governor Greg Abbott made addressing the fentanyl crisis an emergency item in this year’s legislative session. Stating that Texas D... Read More...

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White Supremacists, Fentanyl and Meth

DRUG CULTURE IN RED STATES? – April 4, 2023 - The alleged leader of the drug trafficking organization is Jesse James Bailey. Bailey and his cohorts allegedly trafficked huge amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine... Read More...

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DEA Alert About Threat of Xylazine. Philly is F**ked

VIDEO – THE CITY OF BROTHERLY DEATH –March 21, 2023 - The US Drug Enforcement Administration issued an alert Monday about the widespread threat of fentanyl mixed with xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer also commonl... Read More...

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‘Tranq Dope’ Makes Users Zombies

VIDEO – FROM BAD TO WORSE – March 31, 2023 - “There’s a good chance if you are using a pill that you bought on the street and did not buy from a regular pharmacy that this might have xylazine in the pill,” Oz said. ... Read More...

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Texas Town Grapples With Shock and Anger at Student’s Deaths

VIDEO – AMERICAN NIGHTMARE –March 16, 2023 - Astudillo planned to get her son medical attention the next day, but by morning he was dead. “It hurts you to see your son after he’s gone and ask yourself, Why ... Read More...

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1 Million Fentanyl Pills Seized

SIMPLE SUPPLY & DEMAND –March 10, 2023 - The buyers, however, were a confidential informant who has worked with the government since 2014 and an undercover Hawthorne police officer working as part of the federal... Read More...

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On the Trail of Fentanyl King

BLIND AMBITION – March 8, 2023 - An order came in from a young marine in North Carolina. He wanted Oxy. Allawi went about fulfilling the order, choosing from among the bags of powders and chemicals strewn about... Read More...

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Rise in Fentanyl Deaths Justifies Use of Military Force?

AN EYE FOR A EYE – March 9, 2023 - Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes is counting on recently introduced federal legislation to help prevent narcotics from flowing into OC.In a March 6 letter he sent to the a... Read More...

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Drug Combinations Known to Cause More Overdose Deaths

IT’S NOT COMPLICATED –Feb. 20, 2023 - “It presents sort of a problem because in an overdose situation, the Narcan isn’t going to work. It’s not an opiate, so Narcan is not going to reverse it,” Kalfas said. ... Read More...

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New Street Drug Threatening to Make California’s Overdose Crisis Worse

WORSE THAN WORSE – Feb. 18, 2023 - In San Francisco, four people who died between December and January were found to have low levels of xylazine in their systems, prompting the city’s Department of Public Healt... Read More...

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10-Year-Old Influencer Everleigh Rose’s Dad Died of Accidental Fentanyl Overdose

MOURNING EVERY MORNING –Feb. 22, 2023 - Our hearts are incredibly heavy as we process the loss of Everleigh’s dad, Tommy. He loved Everleigh immensely,’ Savannah wrote back in September, alongside a touching photo o... Read More...

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Fentanyl Played Role in the 4,000 Drug Deaths in this State

VIDEO – HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS –Feb. 23, 2023 - An estimated 77% of the total overdose deaths in 2021 involved illegally manufactured fentanyl, which was often mixed with other substances.This is similar to ... Read More...

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Philadelphia’s Zombie Drug ‘tranq’ Already in NYC

VIDEO – WATCH IN WONDER – FEB, 22, 2023 - PIX11 News drove to Philadelphia to get a first-hand look at the effects of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that is turning fentanyl addicts into “zombies.”Click@YouTub... Read More...

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