Fentanyl’s toll spikes, for some
October 10, 2023 More people without college degrees are dying from drug overdoses than those who went to college, highlighting the need...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Sep 21
- 1 min
Day care operator charged in baby's fentanyl death allegedly deleted more than 20K text messages
September 19, 2023 A New York City day care operator allegedly deleted more than 20,000 messages between her and her husband sent from...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Sep 8
- 1 min
‘This isn’t some random dude with a duffel bag’: To catch fentanyl traffickers, feds dig into crypto
August 5, 2023 Washington CNN — The Biden administration has intensified its focus on tracing cryptocurrency payments that some of the...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Jul 5
- 1 min
Xylazine-laced fentanyl is causing wounds and scrambling efforts to stop overdoses
June 22, 2023 CNN — WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Jul 5
- 1 min
Narcan saved the life of this poodle after suffering apparent drug overdose
April 22, 2023 CNN — A poodle named Toodles in Pennsylvania was revived with Narcan after suffering an apparent drug overdose,...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Jul 5
- 1 min
Woman accused of killing her husband and then writing a children’s book about grief is sued by his
June 29, 2023 CNN — Kouri Richins, the Utah widow accused of killing her husband with a fentanyl overdose and then writing a children’s...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Jul 5
- 1 min
US customs officers find nearly 900,000 fentanyl pills hidden in shipment of sinks, authorities say
July 2, 2023 (CNN)US Customs and Border Protection officers in California say they stopped the attempted smuggling of fentanyl pills...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Feb 22
- 1 min
After recent student fentanyl overdoses in Texas community, court documents reveal drug supplier
Feb 11, 2023 (CNN)Parents across the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District (CFBISD), located in a Dallas, Texas, suburb,...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Feb 22
- 1 min
FDA advisers vote in favor of making opioid overdose antidote available over the counter
Feb 16, 2023 If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives the go-ahead, a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote Narcan...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Feb 9
- 1 min
Biden: 'Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year'
Feb 7, 2023 President Biden speaks on the Fentanyl crisis, stating that it is killing "more than 70,000 Americans a year." He introduces...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Feb 9
- 1 min
The Biden administration quietly eliminated a barrier to medication for opioid addiction
Feb 8, 2023 In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden highlighted a recent policy change aimed at increasing access...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Feb 9
- 1 min
These Florida brothers ran one of the largest opioid ‘pill mills’ in US history. The FBI says...
Feb 3, 2023 Throngs of people hang outside the American Pain clinic in Boca Raton, Florida, waiting their turn. Inside, a doctor greets...
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sbcopioidtaskforce
- Jan 12
- 1 min
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
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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