It depends. A pharmacist explains. Fentanyl and Dilaudid (hydromorphone) are two potent opioid pain relievers. Opioids are a ...

Iran has developed chemical weapons based on synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, warns a US expert, powerful agents that could incapacitate soldiers or civilians when added to grenades or artillery.

In the past two years, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have seized enough fentanyl to kill 2 million Americans, a top border official said. The acting head of CBP visited San Diego on ...

Los Angeles police made a major drug bust this week, seizing enough fentanyl to potentially kill every resident of the city. The bust resulted during a narcotics investigation near downtown Los ...

It’s become a ubiquitous sign of the fentanyl crisis unfolding on San Francisco’s streets: scores of seemingly comatose drug ...

Fentanyl poisoning deaths have plummeted by nearly 20 percent, according to new data published by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). DSHS data shows that 1,925 Texans died from ...

Daquan Booker, 34, is accused of selling 17-year-old Grace Wrightington pills laced with fentanyl in 2023. He has been charged with criminal sale and possession of a controlled substance ...

His dad told him, “Ok.” And so began a night of revelry that ended with Ethan Bherwani’s fatal fentanyl poisoning. In the early hours of May 18, a nurse called Kamal Bherwani from his son ...

CBS News Los Angeles Live More than 50 pounds of powdered fentanyl and nine pounds of black tar heroin was seized in South Los Angeles — drugs worth an estimated street value of over $4 million ...

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, meaning that it has none of the natural opium made from harvested poppies. Examples of natural opioids are morphine and codeine. Instead, fentanyl is a combination ...

The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office has arrested five people accused of dealing fentanyl in Slidell. Detectives launched two separate investigations last week. Detectives said on October 30 ...

The mother and grandfather of a 17-month-old Lancaster toddler who died of a fentanyl overdose have been charged with his murder. The grandfather, Jessie Darthard, told sheriff’s deputies that ...