Public health and law enforcement officials are seeing fentanyl combined with highly potent substances that increase overdose ...

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Experts are warning about nitazenes — synthetic opioids with different, deadly strains — that can be hidden in other drugs A synthetic opioid that’s 43 times stronger than fentanyl and 250 times ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The FBI announced on Friday that 33 people have been indicted following a raid targeting the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization in the Kensington section of ...

People huddle in a doorway next to the city's Medical Respite & Sobering Center near Eighth and Mission streets on April 10, 2025. Photo by Gustavo Hernandez. When Theris Coats failed to make it from ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Dominic Cipriano couldn’t stop shaking. A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was fentanyl. But whatever Cipriano had taken didn’t produce ...

As the social service providers handed out fruit snacks and water bottles on Thursday, down the block from a needle exchange on Berkeley’s University Avenue, they asked passers-by an unusual question: ...

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A new sedative used in veterinary medicine is showing up in street drugs, leading to severe health complications and frequent intensive care unit admissions, local emergency physicians warn.