Fentanyl

Identifying China as both a competitor and an adversary, Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J D Vance said on Sunday that his party wants to establish a robust international framework where the US can "check" Beijing.

The United States had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to Zambada's arrest, accusing him of trafficking cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and fentanyl

Adult film star Jesse Jane died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl and cocaine toxicity in January 2024, herautopsy report has confirmed. Her body was found in a decomposed state, it stated.

Paige Gibbons, a 19-year-old freshman at Hobart and William Smith Colleges believed she was taking a Percocet.

If re-elected, former US president Donald Trump has vowed to send "assassination squads" of US special forces into Mexico to take out the heads of drug cartels, according to a report.

Inhaling the synthetic opioid fentanyl -- approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use as pain relief and anaesthetic -- can cause irreversible brain damage, according to a new study today.

The findings come amid concerns about fentanyl use rising within Mexico. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US each year.

Two people recovering from heroin addiction told the BBC that they nearly died after taking the new drugs.

The United States will call for global action on synthetic drugs including fentanyl, which has killed thousands of Americans, at a UN conference Friday, the State Department said.

A woman in the United States has been left with severe brain damage after a terminally ill anesthesiologist gave her a "huge dose" of fentanyl during a dental surgery in Texas, a lawsuit has alleged.

As many as 10 patients in the United States may have died after a nurse at an Oregon hospital allegedly swapped out fentanyl in IVs for tap water.

Nitazenes were first discovered in the UK in 2021, from a sample of white powder found in the back of a taxi in Wakefield.

China's narcotics control agency has warned against the manufacture and sale of substances that can be used to make illegal drugs, a day after President Xi Jinping said China would stem the export of items used to make the opioid fentanyl.

United States President Joe Biden said Wednesday China will take steps to tackle the flow of fentanyl - a synthetic opioid responsible for the death of over 70,000 people last year - into the country.

The actor died at his Pacific Palisades home in Los Angeles. He was found unresponsive in his hot tub and was believed to have drowned.

Identifying China as both a competitor and an adversary, Republican vice presidential nominee Senator J D Vance said on Sunday that his party wants to establish a robust international framework where the US can "check" Beijing.

The United States had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to Zambada's arrest, accusing him of trafficking cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and fentanyl

Adult film star Jesse Jane died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl and cocaine toxicity in January 2024, herautopsy report has confirmed. Her body was found in a decomposed state, it stated.

Paige Gibbons, a 19-year-old freshman at Hobart and William Smith Colleges believed she was taking a Percocet.

If re-elected, former US president Donald Trump has vowed to send "assassination squads" of US special forces into Mexico to take out the heads of drug cartels, according to a report.

Inhaling the synthetic opioid fentanyl -- approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use as pain relief and anaesthetic -- can cause irreversible brain damage, according to a new study today.

The findings come amid concerns about fentanyl use rising within Mexico. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US each year.

Two people recovering from heroin addiction told the BBC that they nearly died after taking the new drugs.

The United States will call for global action on synthetic drugs including fentanyl, which has killed thousands of Americans, at a UN conference Friday, the State Department said.

A woman in the United States has been left with severe brain damage after a terminally ill anesthesiologist gave her a "huge dose" of fentanyl during a dental surgery in Texas, a lawsuit has alleged.

As many as 10 patients in the United States may have died after a nurse at an Oregon hospital allegedly swapped out fentanyl in IVs for tap water.

Nitazenes were first discovered in the UK in 2021, from a sample of white powder found in the back of a taxi in Wakefield.

China's narcotics control agency has warned against the manufacture and sale of substances that can be used to make illegal drugs, a day after President Xi Jinping said China would stem the export of items used to make the opioid fentanyl.

United States President Joe Biden said Wednesday China will take steps to tackle the flow of fentanyl - a synthetic opioid responsible for the death of over 70,000 people last year - into the country.

The actor died at his Pacific Palisades home in Los Angeles. He was found unresponsive in his hot tub and was believed to have drowned.