fentanyl

The owner of a New York City day care center and a tenant living in the building have been arrested after a 1-year-old boy was killed and three others were sickened by apparent exposure to Fentanyl.

A man and a woman have been arrested on murder charges after a baby died and three other children were hospitalized following suspected exposure to opioids at a Bronx daycare center on Friday, police said.

Officials say a pit bull puppy that California police believe got into its owners’ fentanyl stash was administered the overdose-reversing drug naloxone and is recovering.

A growing number of parents across the U.S. are being criminally charged with murder or manslaughter after their children die from exposure to fentanyl.

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A former star swimmer who was found dead in the U.S. Virgin Islands in February died of accidental fentanyl poisoning, police said.

Robert DeNiro’s grandson Leandro died from a toxic combination of drugs including fentanyl, ketamine and cocaine, the New York City Medical Examiner has ruled.

A six-point plan from the White House’s drug control office aims to scale up testing, treatment and efforts to intercept illegal shipments of xylazine, which is being mixed into fentanyl and other illicit opioids.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed criminal charges against four Chinese companies and eight individuals for allegedly trafficking the chemicals used to make the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl in the United States and Mexico.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced indictments against eight Chinese nationals and four Chinese companies for trafficking precursor chemicals into the U.S. for the purpose of manufacturing fentanyl.

The U.S. has sanctioned more than a dozen people and businesses in China and Mexico that allegedly helped provide machines used to make counterfeit prescription drugs.

Fentanyl is described by San Diego’s District Attorney as a drug with no runway. It’s a cliff that DA Summer Stephan says has taken the lives of 70,000 people across the country — more than 800 of them were here in San Diego County in just one year.

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Orange County activist Janice Celeste, president and CEO of Fentanylsolution.org, which is seeking to go around the legislature with a ballot measure to strengthen penalties for fentanyl traffickers.

It is now the leading cause of death for Americans 18-45 years of age, fentanyl poisoning. It is 50 times stronger than heroin, it is highly addictive and more deadly. NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with two sides of the issue. First up, the Chair of the Assembly Public Safety Committee Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D) Los Angeles. He explains why his...

A new poll asks California voters what changes they would like to see regarding fentanyl-related legislation in a process that could add a ballot initiative in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. Lolita Lopez reports May 5, 2023.

A new poll asks California voters what changes they would like to see regarding fentanyl-related legislation in a process that could add a ballot initiative in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.  

The U.S. and international law enforcement agencies arrested nearly 300 people in a drug bust that authorities called the largest of its kind. Conan Nolan reports May 2, 2023.

California Superintendent Tony Thurmond is pushing to have overdose-reversing naloxone on campuses to combat a rise in deadly overdoses of students. Tony Shin reports April 27, 2023.

A state proposal that could lead to fentanyl dealers being charged with homicide is receiving pushback. Lolita Lopez reports April 24, 2023.

President Joe Biden’s drug czar on Wednesday declared that fentanyl mixed with xylazine, an animal tranquilizer known as “tranq” that has been linked to a rising number of overdose deaths across the U.S., represents an “emerging threat” facing the nation.