DALLAS — Tecose Dchaz Martin saw a news story from Colorado, prosecutors said, and saw money: "We can get rich off blues," he told an associate. The "blues" he was referencing were fentanyl pills, and ...

A recent scientific study identified the reduced supply of fentanyl as one of the primary factors behind a significant drop in the number of overdose deaths since the latter half of 2023. There were ...

Among U.S. President Donald Trump’s first actions after returning to office in January 2025 was imposing new tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico, which he accused of sending fentanyl to the United ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The significant, recent decline in U.S. drug overdose deaths was driven in large part by a sudden shift in North America’s illicit drug supply ...

A nationwide drop in overdose deaths may be driven by a collapse of the international fentanyl supply chain in 2023, a Maryland criminologist in world drug markets reported in the journal Science. “We ...

Carfentanil has experienced a drastic resurgence across the U.S., causing hundreds of unsuspecting drug users to overdose. It is a weapons-grade chemical that the Drug Enforcement Administration ...