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78-year-old Georgia Woman Overdoses on Fentanyl After Prescription Mix-up at Pharmacy

VIDEO – BUYER BEWARE VERY AWARE – July 21, 2026 - Betty Thomas, 78, said she unknowingly used fentanyl patches for nearly three weeks after a Publix pharmacist in Decatur, Georgia, allegedly gave her another customer... Read More...

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Nashville Police Report 6 Fatal Overdoses in One Day

VIDEO – ONLY SAD MUSIC – July 16, 2026 - More than 300 overdose reversal kits were handed out to affected neighborhoods Wednesday by Neighborhood Safety Unit Sergeant Anthony Cucci and partnering Metro agencies. “... Read More...

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She Lost Her Son to Fentanyl and Blames a Broken Rehab System

BLAME GAME – July 17, 2026 - When Diana Estep’s teenage son Drew became addicted to drugs, she spent hours researching rehabilitation methods and sent him to therapy-focused centers around the country. Looking back, ... Read More...

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Regular Users Tolerate Previously ‘Unsurvivable’ Amounts of Fentanyl

OH HAPPY DAY – July 2, 2026 - Habitual users of fentanyl have developed such a strong tolerance to the drug that standard doses of medications to manage withdrawal and initiate recovery are no longer working for many... Read More...

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Turning Grief into a Lifeline for Thousands

BEING OF SERVICE – May 29, 2026 - Points of Light is proud to share the following uplifting and inspiring story. However, we acknowledge that portions of this story may be difficult for some readers. We encourage you... Read More...

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What’s in that fentanyl? Plenty, including plastics.

AUDIO – DANGER STRAIGHT AHEAD – May 8, 2026 - There’s more medetomidine, a veterinary tranquilizer oft referred to as “rhino tranq.” It can lead to hallucinations and immobility and, like xylazine, it’s unfazed by Na... Read More...

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100 Times Stronger Than Fentanyl, Carfentanil Seizures Surge

WE NEED A NEW CA – April 17, 2026 - Carfentanil, a weapons-grade chemical that authorities say is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl, has seen a drastic resurgence across the ... Read More...

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Officials Warn of New Opioid 10 Times Stronger than Fentanyl

VIDEO – WHAT CAN WE DO? – April 23, 2026 - “Dilworth Center continues to see significant numbers of our patients having taken synthetic opioids. Fentanyl is a known problem that we have been dealing with for years. C... Read More...

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Canine Exposed During Major Fentanyl Bust in Bronx

VIDEO – POOCH AT WORK – April 10, 2026 - Eight people are facing charges after investigators say they were running large-scale fentanyl packaging mills inside residential buildings in the Bronx and Washington Heights... Read More...

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Mom Shares Story of Son’s Fatal Fentanyl Overdose

SO SAD – Feb. 12, 2026 - Lantz Tucker came home from work exhausted and ready for bed. Before turning in, the 22-year-old from Kansas took what he believed was an oxycodone pill. He never woke up.His mother fou... Read More...

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Killer High: Finding Freedom From Fentanyl

VIDEO – ALL CAUGHT ON FILM – Feb. 21, 2026 - The graduation dress was black. René Patla had picked it out with her daughter Olivia weeks earlier, the two of them imagining the walk across the stage, the diploma, the ... Read More...

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10 Years of Fentanyl: The Deadly Drug Still Has San Francisco In Its Grip

DYING TO GET HIGH – Feb. 5, 2026 - The coroner’s office struggled to keep up. During a 24-hour-span on Aug. 8, 2023, nine people in San Francisco died from drug overdoses, eight of them from fentanyl. Eight were c... Read More...

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Fentanyl Overdoses Hitting The Elderly

VIDEO – HANDLE WITH CARE – Feb. 13, 2026 - Fentanyl continues to be the primary cause of drug overdose deaths in the United States. Even a very small amount of it can cause a lethal overdose. Last year, synthet... Read More...

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How a Homeless Man Escaped the Grip of Fentanyl

ONE HOT MEAL AT A TIME – Dec. 3, 2025 - WHEN EVAN CARVER shuffled into the chapel of Salvation Army’s rehab center looking frail and steadying himself with a walker, he wasn’t sure he could quit fentanyl for good. Bu... Read More...

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Fentanyl Vaccine About to Get Its First Major Test

NEEDLES – Dec. 3, 2025 - JUST A TINY amount of fentanyl, the equivalent of a few grains of sand, is enough to stop a person’s breathing. The synthetic opioid is tasteless, odorless, and invisible when mixed with othe... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 09 2025Drug Abuse and Addictionfentanyl

Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way

NO KIDDING – Nov. 15, 2025 - The killing has already started. Since September, the military has carried out 20 strikes on boats supposedly smuggling drugs in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, killing at least 80... Read More...

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Are We Sure We’re Using Fentanyl Test Strips the Right Way?

NOT JUST FOR ADDICTS – Nov. 12, 2025 - The obvious places to stock FTS are school bathrooms and locker rooms. Bars, nightclubs, festivals, dormitories—all the places frequented by people who don’t identify as drug us... Read More...

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‘It’s scary to think I could have died’

LONG STRANGE TRIP – Oct. 17, 2025 - Coming back from fentanyl addiction. Kayla first tried fentanyl as a troubled 18-year-old, growing up in the US state of North Carolina. ”I felt like literally amazing. The voices ... Read More...

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‘There Was a Death’: A Mother Fights for Justice

NOT THE DEALERS FAULT – Aug. 31, 2025 - After she lost her son to an overdose, Serena Fallon went on a quest to hold someone accountable for his death. Don’t come downstairs, the police told her. You don’t want to se... Read More...

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Scott Cochran Was Snorting 50 Fentanyl Pills a Day

STILL HAS A NOSE? – Aug. 10, 2025 - “I was the worst of the worst addicts,” Cochran said. Doctors first prescribed him blood thinners before moving him up to Vicodin after they proved ineffective. But after the Vicod... Read More...

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Funds For Fighting Fentanyl Finally Freed

AUDIO – FOR HOW LONG? – Aug. 5, 2025 - NPR reported last month that the Trump administration was withholding $140 million from the OD2A program, which state and local public health departments rely on to lower overdo... Read More...

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The 48-Hour Fentanyl Clock

AUDIO – NOW OR EVERE – Aug. 7, 2025 - This is Radio Atlantic. I’m Hanna Rosin. Today, we have the second episode of No Easy Fix, our three-part series about why San Francisco, one of the world’s most innovative... Read More...

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Trump Withholds $140 Million For Overdose Prevention

Trump Stalls Fentanyl Aid – July 16, 2025 - The Trump administration has delayed and may cancel roughly $140 million in grants to fund fentanyl overdose response efforts, according to four staff members with close k... Read More...

Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylJuly 22 2025

Mass Overdose Event Hospitalizes Over 2 Dozen

INSANITY – July 15, 2015 - The event, caused by a bad batch of an unspecified drug, prompted a surge in 911 calls. Experts think a potent batch of fentanyl might have caused the overdoses and that the specific blend ... Read More...

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Doctor in Training Stole Fentanyl From Children

AUDIO – ANYONE CAN SUCCUMB – July 2, 2025 - Andrew Voegel-Podadera was charged with two counts of acquiring a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, deception and subterfuge. An anesthesiologist resident, ... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylJuly 15 2025

‘16 And Pregnant’ Star Arrested In Overdose Death

IT ALL WENT WRONG – July 7, 2025 - Whitney Purvis, who appeared in the first season of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant back in 2009, was arrested today on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in connection to a fatal overdose.... Read More...

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Largest Fentanyl Bust in DEA History

PROGRESS not PERFECTION – May 6, 2025 -Federal authorities have arrested 16 individuals and seized record-breaking quantities of fentanyl, cash, firearms, and vehicles across multiple states, dismantling one of the l... Read More...

Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylMay 13 2025

U.S. Fentanyl Deaths Plunging

LIFE MATTERS – April 10, 2025 - Federal spending cuts instigated by the White House threaten to reverse a steep decline in American overdose deaths and are jeopardizing other gains in the battle against synthet... Read More...

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‘Rhino Tranq’ Linked to Overdose Death

SYNTHETIC COUNTRY – April 10, 2025 - A powerful street drug that began showing up alongside “tranq” (xylazine) and fentanyl in Philadelphia and other cities last year, medetomidine or “rhino tranq,” may be making its... Read More...

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Four Women on Life After Fentanyl

VIDEO – IT’S COMPLICATED – March 30, 2025 - CNN “Fentanyl in America: A Way Out” on “The Whole Story presented by Anderson Cooper” “I was asked to give an update of myself for this documentary, and I wanted to throw ... Read More...

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