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Scientists Create a Vaccine Against Fentanyl

FOR RODENTS – Dec. 15, 2022 - Now, researchers at the University of Houston say in a statement they have a potential solution that could be a “game-changer” in the fight against opioid overdoses: a new vaccine ... Read More...

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Fentanyl’s Scourge Visible in Los Angeles (warning: graphic images)

IT’S NOT A DISASTER MOVIE! – Nov. 28, 2022 - The federal government says the highly addictive and lethal synthetic drug has quickly become the deadliest drug in the nation. While help is available, it is... Read More...

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Drugs Killed 8 Friends, One by One

AUDIO – WHERE DOES IT END? – Dec. 2, 2022 - In a nation that suffered more than 107,000 drug overdose deaths in 2021 alone, there are many Greenvilles — places where the powerful opioid fentanyl and othe... Read More...

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As Overdoses Soar in America, Clinicians are Prescribing More Addiction Medicine

VIDEO – BIG PHARMA BIG HAPPY – Nov. 30, 2022 - The central Iowa clinic, owned by the nonprofit agency Primary Health Care, has offered buprenorphine since 2016. “We were kind of a unicorn in this part of the st... Read More...

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How Meth Worsened Fentanyl Crisis. ‘We Are in a Different World.’

DEATH BY MISTAKES – Nov. 14, 2022 - The drug combination put him at the center of a deepening complication in the nation’s overdose crisis. The pairing of meth, which can also cause psychosis and erratic, risky... Read More...

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Fentanyl Vaccine Potential ‘Game Changer’ for Opioid Epidemic

PLEASE BE TRUE – Nov. 14, 2022 - The breakthrough discovery could have major implications for the nation’s opioid epidemic by becoming a relapse prevention agent for people trying to quit using opioids. While r... Read More...

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Dramatic Footage Shows Two Teens Saved by Narcan

VIDEO – ROBBING DEATH – Nov. 4, 2022 - Authorities administered three doses of Naloxone, also known as Narcan, which is an opioid overdose treatment, to both teens while administering CPR. Within minu... Read More...

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Forbes says Fentanyl Is Biggest Public Problem Facing The U.S.

AUDIO – RHYMES WITH HELL – Nov. 6, 2022 - In the past 10 years, where governments at the local, state, and federal levels have acted in concert, there appears to be a disproportionate focus on legal prescriptio... Read More...

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Touching Fentanyl Will Not Cause You to Overdose

VIDEO – JUST DON’T LICK IT – Oct. 21, 2022 - Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that’s up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. While pharmaceutical fentanyl is prescribed by doctor... Read More...

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Is ‘rainbow fentanyl’ a threat to kids this Halloween? Experts say No

ALWAYS BEWARE – Oct. 11, 2022 - “I don’t see any evidence that the DEA has produced that supports that conjecture,” said Nabarun Dasgupta, a researcher studying illegal drugs at the University of North Carolina... Read More...

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One Man’s Journey Through Opioid Addiction

IT’S THE HERO’S JOURNEY! – Oct. 14, 2022 - “I overdosed on drugs. I took heroin laced with fentanyl,” the 38-year-old Idaho Falls man says. “I was dead.” Exactly how long he was dead is unclear. To th... Read More...

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High School Ball Player Dies After Suspected Fentanyl Overdose

VIDEO – WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN – Oct. 7, 2022 - “It is with great sadness that I inform you that one of our 17-year-old students passed away last night,” David Hussey, the school’s executive director, said i... Read More...

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Family, Friends Advocate to End Drug-Induced Homicides

VIDEO – MORE WILL BE REVEALED – Oct. 6, 2022 - Rumley was a recovering drug addict who went to treatment three times and didn’t have any luck. He went to Rosecrance for his fourth treatment and finally complete... Read More...

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Police Warn Fentanyl Disguised as Candy at Halloween

VIDEO – REALLY SCARY – Sept. 27, 2022 - Fentanyl is still flooding the streets of Kentucky. The deadly drug is now taking on new forms to appeal to young people. The latest trend has parents worried and l... Read More...

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Las Vegas Police See 6 Deadly Overdoses in 1-1/2 Days

VIDEO – LEAVING LAS VEGAS ... FOREVER – Sept 26, 2022 - Police said the people unknowingly took fentanyl. The department previously told FOX5 they are seeing many cases like that. “The party drugs, or Xanax ... Read More...

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Experts Say It’s Nonsense When DEA says “rainbow” fentanyl pills are being marketed to children

WHICH IS IT? – Sept. 6, 2022 - Dasgupta says the DEA’s framing “was so divorced from any reality of what drug markets are actually like, it was almost laughable that our country’s top drug enforcement folks are... Read More...

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Country Singer Luke Bell Dies from Fentanyl Intoxication

TOO MUCH DEATH – Sept. 20, 2022 - According to Saving Country Music, Bell was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and his “mental state took a turn for the worse” over recent months. “Luke fought this as h... Read More...

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Police Repeating Drug War’s Dark History in Fentanyl Era

NO EFFECT ON OVERDOSE VICTIMS? – Sept. 20, 2022 - Facing an unprecedented public health crisis, law enforcement is under enormous pressure to demonstrate to the public that its efforts are making a difference. ... Read More...

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LA schools to Provide Narcan After 7th Student Overdoses

VIDEO – WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? – Sept. 23, 2022 - Officials are sounding the alarm after at least seven students have overdosed according to police. NBC News’ Miguel Almaguer reports on how the Los Ange... Read More...

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Treatment Center’s Push to Save Lives With Methadone

BUT HARD TO GET? – Sept. 20, 2022 - “I was so close to death, on my death bed from endocarditis, from fentanyl, that had I not made the move I did, I would be dead today,” Detzel said. “So it was life or... Read More...

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Several L.A. High School Students Overdose, 1 Dies from Pills Laced with Fentanyl

EDUCATE BETTER! – Sept. 14, 2022 - Earlier in the day, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to separate calls reporting possible overdoses of two teens in the area of Lexington Park, a few blocks fr... Read More...

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2 Boys Arrested For Fatal Overdose at Hollywood High School

VIDEO – LETHAL AMOUNTS – HOLLYWOOD, CA - Sept. 15, 2022 - The younger boy, who lives with his grandmother, allegedly sold a pill to two 15-year-old girls on the Bernstein campus, causing both of them to overdose... Read More...

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New Street Drug is ‘As Deadly as Fentanyl’

ONLY IF YOU INGEST IT – Sept. 16, 2022 - Deaths linked to drugs are on the rise. In their report issued Sept. 16, Jessica Korona-Bailey and colleagues said that “four times as many nitazene-involved over... Read More...

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Heroin Overdoses Down in D.C. The Sad Reason? Fentanyl.

THE CAPITAL OF DEATH – Sept. 8, 2022 - Now heroin, synonymous with illicit drug use in Mid-Atlantic cities since the 1960s, is close to vanishing from the streets of the nation’s capital. D.C.’s lates... Read More...

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Tyreek Lewis, 35, Died For Seeking Pain Relief — And Unknowingly Bought a Fentanyl Pill

THE INVISIBLE SNIPPER KILLS AGAIN – Sept. 3, 2022 - Desperate for relief, Lewis bought two. But the pills Lewis had purchased were illicit fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. They had been pressed ... Read More...

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Traffickers Target Teens With ‘rainbow fentanyl’ Deaths

VIDEO – CHILDHOOD IS DANGEROUS – Aug. 31, 2022 - “The men and women of the DEA are relentlessly working to stop the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl and defeat the Mexican drug cartels that are responsible for t... Read More...

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Doctor Traces Fentanyl’s Journey From Miracle Drug to Mass Killer

AUDIO – FOLLOW THE GREED – Aug. 25, 2022 - Pharmaceutical fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, approved for treating severe pain. However, many recent cases of fentanyl-related harm, overdose and death in the U.S. a... Read More...

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Fentanyl Deaths Leads Morgues to Run Out of Space

VIDEO – NO END IN SIGHT – Aug. 24, 2022 - Chicago-area resident Karen Zander lost her 22-year-old son John Allen to fentanyl poisoning. Zander said in 2016, Allen made the choice to snort cocaine that his best ... Read More...

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Law Enforcement Officials Warn About Spread of “Rainbow Fentanyl”

THE COLOR OF MONEY – Aug. 22, 2022 - Experts have differing theories as to why illicit drug manufacturers are producing brightly colored fentanyl. Some officials, including Michael W. Humphries, area dir... Read More...

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Overdose Prevention Should Be Part of Each College’s Core Curriculum

BEFORE ALGEBRA – August 11, 2022 - I’m not being alarmist: During that same spring break, four students in Florida overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl; when two friends began to perform CPR, they were expo... Read More...

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