Texas AG Ken Paxton announces program aimed to combat opioid epidemic

The pilot program “Friday Night Lights Against Opioids" is geared toward stopping the drug epidemic among teens, especially among student-athletes.

Congressman Crenshaw talks border crisis, calls drug cartels 'existential' threat
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During an interview with Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) a decorated Navy SEAL officer who has represented Texas' 2nd district since 2019, explained how the issue at the border is in fact a crisis.

15-year-old girl dies after taking fentanyl-laced pill on high school campus in Hollywood

A 15-year-old student at Bernstein High School is dead and another teen was hospitalized after overdosing on pills they purchased at Lexington Park in Hollywood. Investigators say the pills were laced with fentanyl.

Judge rules CVS, Walgreens and Walmart owe 2 Ohio counties $650M in opioids suit

The Ohio counties convinced the jury that the three pharmacies played an outsized role in creating a public nuisance in the way they dispensed pain medication.

Fentanyl risk from $1 bill? Drug safety expert dispels myths about second-hand exposure

In a viral Facebook post, a Kentucky woman says she had to be hospitalized after picking up a dollar bill from the ground that she thinks was laced with the drug fentanyl.

3 Houston-area men sentenced for selling drugs through fake prescriptions

3 Houston-area men, as well as four unnamed co-conspirators, reportedly worked together to distribute more than 1.5 million dosage units of controlled substances in a span of 18 months.

Lauren Boebert introduces bill to classify fentanyl as weapon of mass destruction

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert, a freshman representing Colorado’s 3rd district, is pushing to classify the synthetic opioid fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

CBP: Woman tried to cross border with condom filled with fentanyl pills in her vaginal cavity

A woman was arrested after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found 0.006 pounds of fentanyl that was wrapped inside a condom the woman placed inside her vaginal cavity.  

Florida sheriff arrests own daughter for meth trafficking: 'No one is immune or exempt'

A Florida sheriff arrested his own daughter, charging her with meth trafficking. "Methamphetamine does not discriminate & neither do we. It does not matter who you are – no one is immune or exempt."

Deadly Houston-area drug ring taken down; linked to fentanyl overdose deaths

A Houston-area drug-trafficking ring, which has been linked to several fentanyl overdose deaths, has been broken up by a team of law enforcement agencies.

DEA warns of 'nationwide spike' of fentanyl-related mass overdoses across US

Fentanyl “mass-overdose events” have been reported in at least seven U.S. cities in recent months. “Fentanyl is killing Americans at an unprecedented rate,” the DEA warned.