New York authorities confiscated a record-breaking amount of fentanyl drugs in 2022
January 7, 2023 CNN — Authorities in New York seized record-breaking amounts of fentanyl powder and fake prescription pills laced with...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Jan 3
- 1 min
Narcan could be required at California schools after youth fentanyl overdoses
Dec 8 , 2022 SACRAMENTO — Following spates of fentanyl overdoses among students, California public schools could be required to provide...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Jan 3
- 1 min
The White House unveils a new system to track and better prevent opioid overdoses
Dec 8 , 2022 For decades, the U.S. struggled to create a national system for tracking opioid overdoses. Critics including Rep. David...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
Más de 100,000 estadounidenses murieron por sobredosis de drogas durante el 2021: 16%
Diciembre 22, 2022 PDe acuerdo con los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades, durante el 2021 más de 107,000 personas...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
Media outlets push fears of officers overdosing from fentanyl exposures. Doctors say it doesn’t add
Dec 22 , 2022 The body-cam footage is harrowing. A Florida police officer, who had discovered what she believed to be fentanyl during a...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
Wage war on fentanyl or decriminalize? We must find a way to combat it.
Dec 27 , 2022 The letter to President Biden signed by 18 attorneys general called for an admittedly “unorthodox” solution to the...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
FDA speeds up review of over-the-counter overdose-reversal drug
Dec 27 , 2022 The FDA granted a pharmaceutical nonprofit priority review to make an inexpensive, over-the-counter nasal spray that...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
Group urges feds to investigate Snapchat over fentanyl sales
Dec 22 , 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. deals with its deadliest overdose crisis to date, a national crime-prevention group is...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
DEA seized enough fentanyl to kill every person in the U.S. in 2022
Dec 20 , 2022 The Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday it has seized more than 379 million potentially fatal doses of illegal...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
Cause of death: Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America
Dec 12, 2022 During the past seven years, as soaring quantities of fentanyl flooded into the United States, strategic blunders and...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Fentanyl Cuts a Bitter Swath Through Milwaukee
Dec 12, 2022 The potent opioid increasingly is afflicting people of color in American cities. “I’ve seen a lot of terrible drugs,” said...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
What is your Bay Area school district doing about fentanyl?
Dec 18, 2022 The fentanyl crisis is spilling onto school campuses across California. Death rates are soaring among teens from the...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
5 signs your child may be overdosing on fentanyl
Dec 19, 2022 The rise of fentanyl is no longer a secret, so recognizing the symptoms of an overdose shouldn’t be either. The drug, 50...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Drug overdose deaths slowing in the US after reaching record levels during the Covid-19 pandemic
December 14, 2022 Drug overdose deaths in the United States have slowed in recent months after reaching record levels earlier this year....
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Tiene 19 años y afirman que abastecía a los distribuidores de fentanilo en Phoenix y vendía la droga
Diciembre 15, 2022 PHOENIX, Arizona. - Las autoridades arrestaron a Fredy Benjamin Medrano Erenas como la persona sospechosa de...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
En cocos, tamales, tortillas y hasta en la Virgen: confiscaciones de fentanilo en Arizona en 2022
Diciembre 16, 2022 Los hallazgos de fentanilo en nuestro estado, así como en el vecino Sonora, tuvieron un importante incremento en el...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Crisis de fentanilo en Texas: Píldoras llegan de China a vecindarios de Dallas-Fort Worth...
Diciembre 16, 2022 Noah Rodríguez, de 15 años, falleció en septiembre tras ingerir una píldora de fentanilo en la casa de un amigo. Su...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Fentanyl found in classroom at Revere High School
December 8, 2022 REVERE - A bag of fentanyl was found at Revere High School, according to an email obtained by the WBZ I-Team. Parents...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 14, 2022
- 1 min
California programs are waiting weeks for free Narcan to prevent overdose deaths
November 14, 2022 After losing her son Luke to an overdose, Sheila Scott has been trying to get “revenge on death,” she said. Scott...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 14, 2022
- 1 min
Con educación combaten crisis de opioides
Noviembre 18, 2022 Uniformados de enfermero, diez estudiantes toman una clase sobre la peligrosa droga del momento: Los opioides.
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
Mexican police find 660 pounds of fentanyl in coconuts
December 2 2022 MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico say police found 660 pounds (300 kilograms) of fentanyl pills packed into coconuts.
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
Salinas man arrested with over 50 firearms and fentanyl pills
Dec 2 2022 SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV)- The Monterey County Sheriff's Office said they arrested a man Friday with a cache of firearms.
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
7 students at LA middle school discharged from hospital after suspected overdoses
December 2 2022 Los Angeles CNN — Seven students who were hospitalized Thursday for a suspected drug overdose at a Los Angeles-area...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
¿Qué es el fentanilo arcoíris? Píldoras de colores generan nuevas advertencias sobre la droga más le
Septiembre 25, 2022 (CNN) — Una nueva ola de preocupación se ha extendido por todo Estados Unidos por las píldoras, polvos y bloques...
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