In 2002, Chechen terrorists took 800 people hostage in Moscow Theater, and Russian special forces devised a peculiar way to subdue them. The tactical team gassed the theater with two types of fentanyl ...

After years spent addicted to heroin on the streets of North Carolina, Samantha Ross had turned her life around. She marked four years in recovery, got married and traveled last year to Miami Beach to ...

In recent years, the opioid epidemic has been worsened by the advent of street fentanyl, an illicit version of a powerful prescription painkiller. But experts now warn that the threat posed by ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that in the 12-month period ending last August, about 74,000 people died from fentanyl-related overdoses. While politicians and ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services warned Monday about the reemergence of a potent fentanyl alteration they said is about 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more ...

On a special episode (first released on September 4, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Ultrapotent nitazenes, which are emerging in street drugs, are the latest front in the opioid battle. Dr. Gregory ...