Mexican drug cartels are driving an opioid epidemic, flooding the United States with increasingly potent synthetic drugs.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid used to treat severe pain. But more than 150 people die every day from overdoses related to ...

Of 89 dolphins tested in the Gulf of Mexico, 30 contained some form of pharmaceutical—and 18 had fentanyl in their blubber.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding the alarm about a new drug that is a more potent form of fentanyl ...

A fentanyl overdose can happen extremely fast, so speed is critical. If you have Narcan, administer it. You can buy Narcan ...

Fentanyl has made headlines for driving overdose deaths, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning of the ...

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department said it was increasing the reward for the top leader of the Jalisco cartel to $15 ...

Last year, nearly 70% of all U.S. overdose deaths were attributed to illegally manufactured fentanyls (IMFs). One of those was carfentanil, which is said to be 100 times more potent, the CDC ...

Also, the emergence of carfentanil, a new form of opioid "100 times more potent than ... Multiple factors could be at play, ...

Only 2 milligrams of the drug – roughly one 50th the size of a pinch of salt – is enough to result in permanent brain damage ...

While fentanyl is a deadly drug booming in the nation's illegal drug market, the CDC is sounding the alarm on something more powerful than that.

Fentanyl has made headlines for driving ... Tuell said. In a powder form, it can be inhaled. "Inhaling the drug can be quickly risky because it can enter the bloodstream, resulting in an overdose ...