A powerful drug used primarily by veterinarians to sedate animals is increasingly showing up in Toronto's unregulated drug ...

A community drug testing program started six years ago in Massachusetts has helped reduce overdose deaths but the program continues to evolve as opioid drug contents are changing. Traci Green started ...

New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...

A group of men are passed out after using drugs in Los Angeles on April 10, 2024. Animal tranquilizer medetomidine is being frequently added to fentanyl to ...

Hamilton Public Health has issued a drug alert after a spike in contaminated fentanyl overdoses. The alert states there has been an increase in EMS calls for suspected drug poisonings between January ...

Some experts recommend smoking rather than injecting fentanyl to avoid needle-related diseases. But, smoking fentanyl is dangerous and can lead to second and third-hand exposures.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — After another video made national headlines of a law enforcement officer experiencing some sort of emergency after fentanyl exposure, South Carolina's medical experts want ...

Drug experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say in the last two years, more than 440 teens died ...