…FOX News. “[Current anti-drug policies] are not stopping fentanyl from killing Americans,” said Garland, per USA Today. “We are focusing on fentanyl with enormous urgency.” The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)…
Staff Uses Narcan To Revive Student
…The Dallas Express that the medication is often used in cases of fentanyl overdoses. While it is unclear whether the pill the student ingested contained fentanyl, the drug has been…
Car Offenses Drive Crime in Moreno's District
…most reported criminal offenses of any City Council district last month, with drug crimes spiking considerably amid the ongoing fentanyl crisis currently sweeping North Texas and the rest of the…
ISD Holds Fentanyl Workshops for Parents
CARROLLTON — After the devastating incidents at Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District (CFBISD), where multiple young people overdosed on fentanyl, the district held workshops Monday that sought to educate parents…
FDA Panel Recommends OTC Status for Narcan
…Obesity rates have also increased steadily in recent years, according to the NCHS. Further contributing to the rise in overdoses and the subsequent necessity of naloxone is the ongoing fentanyl…
New Superintendent Chosen After Overdoses
…follows months of fear and tragedy at the district, during which almost a dozen fentanyl overdoses by students were documented, resulting in at least three confirmed deaths, as previously reported…
Vigil for Teen Addresses Fentanyl Crisis
…to the public about fentanyl. “Fentanyl is the most dangerous drug of all time,” he said. “We need to develop a comprehensive plan.” He expressed a desire to organize a…
Fentanyl Documentary Screened in North Texas
…the rest of the country. The documentary Fentanyl Factor was produced by Safe Coalition, an anti-drug non-profit organization, to educate people in the United States about how fentanyl figures into…
Opinion: Intensive Outpatient Therapy
…heroin or fentanyl will likely not be a candidate for IOP because of the deadly risk of the drugs, but some who use cannabis (with no risk of overdose) may…
Four People Hospitalized After Police Chase
…in the city — about a 3% hike year-over-year — and a raging opioid crisis. Recently, fentanyl-laced drugs have been linked to overdoses among the city’s youth, triggering alarm among…
North Texas Unit Makes Huge Fentanyl Bust
…containing 42,000 fentanyl pills, according to a press release by the Collin County Sheriff’s Department. “This large seizure of fentanyl by NTXCIU deputies will make communities across East and North…
House Committee Talks Fentanyl at Border
…the current fentanyl crisis and its relationship to border policy, which prompted some acrimony from critics who claimed that holding the hearing at the border was unnecessary. “The attempt to…
Abbott Names Emergency Legislative Items
…for human smuggling. Relatedly, Abbott called for increased focus on addressing the fentanyl crisis. “Our porous border has tragic side effects,” Abbott said. “Fentanyl poisoning has now become the leading…
Animal Tranquilizer Worsens Opioid Crisis
…humans, according to the National Institute on Drug Use. Authorities are finding traces of xylazine mixed with other drugs like fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin. The drug is primarily impacting the…
New Arrest Made in Local Drug Deaths
…the federal crime of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, said U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton in a press release issued on Wednesday. Investigators believe that Villanueva supplied fentanyl to Eduardo Navarrete, 21,…
AGs Want Terrorist Designation for Cartels
…Abbott’s concerns in their letter, pointing to the fentanyl crisis being facilitated by Mexican cartels that manufacture and traffic fentanyl, its precursors and other drugs laced with it through the…
6K Fentanyl Pills Allegedly Found in Car
…found with two kilograms of fentanyl, as reported by The Dallas Express. He was allegedly in possession of both pure powdered fentanyl and counterfeit pharmaceutical pills that had fentanyl added…
Parents Pack Local ISD's Fentanyl Meeting
…frontline workers. They also told the community what they were teaching students about fentanyl, including the difference between pharmaceutical fentanyl, prescribed in small doses, and counterfeit fentanyl, which is often…
Border Officers Refute Claim that Fentanyl Isn’t Smuggled into U.S.
(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, claimed at a U.S. House committee hearing Tuesday that the majority of fentanyl – 90% – was being seized at southern…
Cartels Use Drones to Identify Law Enforcement Locations
…doses of fentanyl since March 2021, more than enough to kill every in America. “Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps left by the Biden Administration’s refusal to…