Fentanyl

Medetomidine Controlled Substance

Street drugs are being cut with a potent sedative, but criminalizing it may worsen Philly's addiction crisis

Philly health department is beefing up response to powerful vet tranquilizer

Misinformation about fentanyl exposure threatens to undermine overdose response

Fentanyl Powder Misinformation

One year into Mayor Parker's Kensington intervention, city officials tout lower crime, better community services

Kensington Crime Parker

Stimulant users are caught in fatal 'fourth wave' of opioid epidemic

Stimulants Cocaine Fentanyl

The drop in overdose deaths may be the result of more veterinary tranquilizers – and less fentanyl – in street drugs

Drug Overdose Deaths

Five Philly men charged with fentanyl trafficking in the city and Chester County

Fentanyl Trafficking Charges

More than half of U.S. jails don't provide medication to treat opioid addiction

MOUD

Philly's 'dope' is ever changing, and that poses challenges for health care workers on the front lines

drugs front line medicine

Cops seize 19,000 packets of fentanyl, dozens of firearms during drug ring bust in Kensington

Kensington drug ring

Philly police to enter enforcement phase of city's plan targeting drugs, violence in Kensington

Bethel Kensington Police

Fentanyl drug packaging operation busted in Kensington

Kensington drug bust

Fatal overdoses fell slightly in the U.S. last year, but fentanyl still poses a big threat

Drug users and unhoused people consider their next paths ahead of city's crackdown in Kensington

Kensington Addiction Homelessness

Fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl and meth are putting drug users at greater risk of overdose, DEA says

Fake Prescription Pills

'Fourth wave' of opioid epidemic crashes ashore, propelled by fentanyl and meth

More fatal overdoses now caused by smoking drugs than injecting them, CDC says

Drug Overdoses Smoking

As fentanyl increasingly taints cocaine and other stimulants, drug testing strips are needed to save lives, officials say

drug test strips

'Undignified practice' of tranq tourism puts Kensington’s opioid crisis in the social media spotlight

TikTok Tranq Tourism

Fentanyl withdrawal is driving more opioid users to leave hospitals early, Penn researchers say

Fentanyl Patients Hospitals

Fatal overdoses reached another all-time high in Philadelphia last year

Philly Overdose Deaths

Over-the-counter Narcan to be sold at major retailers starting next week

Over-the-counter Narcan

White House plan targets xylazine, the animal sedative now commonly found in Philly's drug supply

Pennsylvania to make animal sedative xylazine a schedule III drug

White House gives xylazine unprecedented 'emerging threat' designation

Over-the-counter Narcan to be available by late summer, manufacturer says

Narcan nasal spray

Federal bill aims to make xylazine, the animal sedative used in 'tranq dope,' a Schedule III controlled drug

Suspected fentanyl overdose prompts hazmat unit to be called to Northeast Philly home

Northeast Philly Man Dead

Despite pharma claims, illicit drug shipments to U.S. aren't full of opioids. It's generic Viagra

CBP narcotics detection

FDA moves to restrict importation of xylazine, the animal tranquilizer exacerbating Philly's fentanyl crisis

Xylazine FDA traq

Fentanyl, heroin found in CBD edibles sold at Montgomery County stores, D.A. says

Montgomery County CBD Fentanyl

U.S. Justice Department sues Conshohocken-based pharmaceutical distributor for role in opioid crisis

Florida man arrested in South Jersey with 10,000 rainbow fentanyl pills, police say

New Jersey Rainbow Fentanyl

With 'tranq dope' afflicting more drug users, Philly steps up overdose response training and wound care

Xylazine Tranq Philadelphia Overdoses

Twin brothers charged in Atlantic City drug bust that netted 39,000 doses of heroin, fentanyl

Atlantic City Drug Bust

Fentanyl test strips made legal in Pennsylvania in hopes of reducing overdose deaths

Trenton woman busted with 15,000 'rainbow fentanyl' pills concealed in LEGO box, DEA says

Rainbow Fentanyl NJ Woman

Drug cartels are using 'rainbow fentanyl' to target young Americans, DEA warns

DEA rainbow fentanyl

Penn's virtual 'warmline' aims to improve access to opioid use disorder treatment among marginalized communities

Pa. House passes bill decriminalizing fentanyl test strips in effort to reduce overdose deaths

Bill to legalize fentanyl test strips passes Pennsylvania House committee

Fentanyl seizures surge in Pennsylvania as the synthetic opioid displaces heroin, A.G. report says

Teen overdose deaths are increasing but drug use is at an all-time low

Counterfeit prescription pills

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