The United States is set to set a grim record of 106,699 drug overdose deaths in 2021, a 16% increase over 2020, the CDC said in its final report released this week. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, is driving the increase. The CDC said that drug overdose deaths are set … Read more
Fentanyl is causing floods in Arizona. US Customs and Border Protection officials seized more than one million doses of fentanyl this week in the border city of Nogales alone – just weeks after another 1.5 million tablets were recovered at the same location. According to Fox News. CBP agents found nearly 300,000 pills hidden in … Read more
A teenage boy has been arrested and charged with murder after he allegedly gave fentanyl to a 16-year-old girl who overdosed and died. Jacob Sayre, 17, was charged Thursday as an adult in Ozark, Missouri, with second-degree murder, endangering the welfare of a child and delivery of a controlled substance. Investigators said the girl, who … Read more
Florida cop who overdosed after being exposed to fentanyl during A traffic stop speaking about her near-death experience, saying she would have died if fellow officers had not been around. Officer Courtney Bannick of the Tavares Police Department lost consciousness after accidentally ingesting the powerful narcotic — which is 100 times more potent than heroin … Read more
A 15-year-old Los Angeles student who died of a suspected overdose went missing eight hours before her friend’s stepfather found her body inside her high school bathroom, attorneys for a new trial said Wednesday. Student Melanie Ramos was pronounced dead in a bathroom by paramedics one September evening after Helen Bernstein High School officials didn’t … Read more
A Florida police officer was administered three doses of Narcan after he was exposed to fentanyl and reportedly overdosed during a traffic stop on Tuesday. Shocking video shows the moment Tavares Officer Courtney Bannick was administered opioid overdose-reversing medication just after midnight as he lay motionless on the side of a road. Bannick found the … Read more
This drug bust was Cocoa-Nuts! Officials said police in Mexico found 660 pounds of fentanyl stuffed into coconuts and possibly transported to the US. Photos from the Office of the Attorney General of Mexico show a white box truck With a mound of coconuts next to it. Police in Mexico found 660 pounds of fentanyl … Read more
An Alabama man has been arrested in connection with the tragic fentanyl-overdose death of his fraternity brother at a Florida graduation party in May, authorities said. is John David Nabors, 26, of Mountain Brook facing felony charges Delivering the drug that caused death at the Santa Rosa Beach Bash after dosing best man Thomas Gleason … Read more
The infant son of a California techie found himself crawling around a playground in a San Francisco neighborhood, taking an overdose of fentanyl, according to his horrified father and nanny. His nanny Wendy Marrocki said the 10-month-old twin was playing with his brother at George Moscone Park in the Senna Marina district on Tuesday afternoon … Read more
Michigan firefighters saved the life of a young pup who was suffering from a fentanyl overdose by administering two doses of naloxone, officials said. First responders in Coldwater, Michigan, said in a Facebook post that Whip the Puppy “ingested a fentanyl patch” and overdosed. Quick-thinking firefighters saved the pup after he chewed on a fentanyl … Read more