fentanyl

As part of an NBC News series, One Nation Overdosed, eight different victims and their families share their stories.

The DEA and its law enforcement partners have seized 9.5 million counterfeit pills so far this year, with fake tablets containing fentanyl making up the majority of that figure

One person is “clinging to life” and five others are recovering after they overdosed on drugs early Tuesday morning in Fairfax County, police say. Six people ranging in age from 23 to 35 years overdosed at an apartment in the 5500 block of Seminary Road about 3 a.m., police said. The mother of one of the victims called 911 after…

A highly produced video about the dangers of fentanyl released last week by the San Diego Sheriff’s Department is being criticized as doing more harm than good.

The parents of a 2-month-old boy who died after ingesting a narcotic last summer in Mount Airy, Maryland, were arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter, authorities say. Grayson Frazier died on July 3, 2020 after medics and deputies responded to a home in the area of Walden Way in Mount Airy for a medical emergency involving the infant. An autopsy…

Federal drug enforcers are warning about an alarming trend in drug overdose deaths tied to counterfeit pills containing fentanyl.

Federal drug enforcers are warning about an alarming trend in drug overdose deaths tied to counterfeit pills containing fentanyl. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Last year, 17-year-old Zach Didier of Rocklin, California, died when he took what he thought was a prescription pain pill he purchased from someone he met on Snapchat. The pill ended up being a counterfeit with a lethal amount of the powerful opioid fentanyl.

An Arizona family purchased a Glo Worm toy from a thrift store for their daughter and found 5,000 pills “believed to be fentanyl” inside.

This week, an Arizona family received far more than they bargained for when they bought a Glo Worm toy for their daughter — only to find that it was stuffed with a sandwich bag full of illicit drugs.

The CDC reports that overdose fatalities in the U.S. have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic.

Up to seven people were hospitalized, including five law enforcement officers and a tow truck driver, after a chemical exposure while attempting to aid the driver of a car who stopped on the Golden Gate Bridge Sunday, California authorities said.

Mexican soldiers seized a huge drug stash at a house in the border city of Tijuana, including about two tons of methamphetamine, eight tons of marijuana and 131,500 pills containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

A Maryland man has been sentenced to more than a dozen years in prison for dealing a fatal fentanyl dose to a 16-year-old

A Minnesota medical board has disciplined a doctor who treated Prince for prescribing pain medication for the pop megastar in another person’s name.

Police said they found multiple medicine bottles around the family’s Bensalem apartment including one in the baby’s swing.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced after being sued by a family alleging an improper dose of fentanyl actively hastened the death of one of those patients. The...

A 23-year-old man suspected of providing Fentanyl to a person who died of an overdose in Ventura County was arrested today at Cher’s home in Malibu.

Rapper Mac Miller was found dead in his California apartment Friday, according to multiple published reports. The rapper had been open about his substance abuse issues in his music and was arrested on suspicion of DUI in May after he crashed his car. He split with his girlfriend Ariana Grande that same month, and she cited his substance abuse problems…