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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new sedative used in veterinary medicine is showing up in street drugs, leading to severe health complications and frequent ...

Law enforcement and forensic teams have identified a new synthetic opioid, Cychlorphine, which investigators warn is being ...

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 ...

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 ...

A dangerous street drug called “New Jack City” is hitting Baltimore and could be tied to last week’s mass overdose, according to police sources and community members familiar with the city’s open-air ...

A massive federal takedown of 33 alleged members of the Weymouth Street Drug Trafficking Organization in October was one of the biggest in years. With the dozens arrested and this violent drug market ...

Valdosta Police Department narcotics detectives arrested a 58-year-old man for possession of over 30 grams of various drugs ...

Police and neighborhood denizens mingled at the opening of the 'Triage Center' at Sixth and Jesse streets on Feb. 7, 2025. The 'Triage Center' closed in June and the space was briefly repurposed into ...

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.