When fentanyl arrived in Washington, D.C., around 2014, none of our patients in the methadone clinic knew they were consuming it. They thought they were buying their usual heroin. But the Mexican ...

Fentanyl-related deaths saw a five-year low in Orange County last year, authorities said Thursday. There were 407 deaths related to the synthetic opioid recorded throughout the county in 2024, down ...

In this Oct. 22, 2018 file photo, a fentanyl user holds a needle near Kensington and Cambria in Philadelphia. Suicides and drug overdoses helped lead a surge in U.S. deaths last year, and drove a ...

A University of Washington (UW) researcher said a treatment costing less than 50 cents could help people addicted to fentanyl make the difficult transition to a medication that can save their lives.

Mike Whaley knows what it’s like to live with crushing grief. The Lake Villa man has not been the same since his only child, Jacob “Whales” Whaley, died Feb. 14, 2024. “Losing a child was so unnatural ...