New Mexico bill allows testing to prevent fentanyl deaths
3 years, 1 month ago

New Mexico bill allows testing to prevent fentanyl deaths

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico’s Legislature passed a bill Monday to legalize test strips that can detect the presence of the potent opiate fentanyl and potentially help avoid deadly overdoses. It also gives state health health officials new authority to intervene and prevent the spread of diseases like HIV and hepatitis through intravenous drug use. The bill was scheduled for a decisive Senate vote as soon as Monday that would send the measure to Overdoses in New Mexico increasingly are linked to the ingestion of drugs laced with fentanyl. New Mexico state Rep. Tara Lujan of Santa Fe hopes her bill will also spur new opportunities for health officials to interact with people harboring drug addictions and offer support services that may save lives.

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New Senate bill seeks to tackle the flow of fentanyl into the US from China and Mexico
3 weeks, 3 days ago

New Senate bill seeks to tackle the flow of fentanyl into the US from China and Mexico

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In a rare bipartisan move, two senators have introduced legislation in the latest attempt to fight the flow of fentanyl and its precursors into the United States from China, Mexico and through other borders — one reason that President Donald Trump has given for his new tariffs. Risch called China “the single greatest source of fentanyl and synthetic …

Mexico makes record fentanyl bust days after Trump tariff threat
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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico makes record fentanyl bust days after Trump tariff threat

CNN  

CNN — Mexican authorities have announced what they say is the largest fentanyl bust in the country’s history, with over a ton of the synthetic opioid seized in two raids in the cartel-ridden northern state of Sinaloa. “It is the largest seizure of fentanyl pills that has ever been made,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday morning during her daily …

Mexico makes record fentanyl bust days after Trump tariff threat
Trending News
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico makes record fentanyl bust days after Trump tariff threat

CNN  

CNN — Mexican authorities have announced what they say is the largest fentanyl bust in the country’s history, with over a ton of the synthetic opioid seized in two raids in the cartel-ridden northern state of Sinaloa. “It is the largest seizure of fentanyl pills that has ever been made,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday morning during her daily …

Mexican troops report record fentanyl haul in twin raids in Sinaloa
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexican troops report record fentanyl haul in twin raids in Sinaloa

LA Times  

Mexican military and police patrol in Culiacan in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in January 2023. Mexican soldiers and marines have seized more than a ton of fentanyl pills in two raids in the north, with officials calling it the biggest catch of the synthetic opioid in the country’s history. The raids came after a sharp drop in fentanyl seizures …

Mexico, a leading producer of illicit fentanyl, can’t get enough for medical use, study finds
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Mexico, a leading producer of illicit fentanyl, can’t get enough for medical use, study finds

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A report released by the Mexican government Friday says the country is facing a dire shortage of fentanyl for medical use, even as Mexican cartels pump out tons of the illicit narcotic. Nonetheless, Mexican cartels appear to be having no problem importing tons of precursor chemicals and making their own fentanyl, which they smuggle into the United …

U.S. Senate proposal could force action on counterfeit pills in Mexican pharmacies
1 year, 4 months ago

U.S. Senate proposal could force action on counterfeit pills in Mexican pharmacies

LA Times  

Terry and Celia Harms at their home in Warwick, R.I., in April 2023. “I included language in the Senate’s version of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill,” Reed, a majority member of the Senate’s powerful Appropriations Committee, said via email. “It would ensure the Secretary of State provides Congress a report on the scope of the problem …

Some GOP candidates want to use force against Mexico to stop fentanyl. Experts say that won’t work
1 year, 5 months ago

Some GOP candidates want to use force against Mexico to stop fentanyl. Experts say that won’t work

Associated Press  

MIAMI — Ron DeSantis wants suspected drug smugglers at the U.S.-Mexico border to be shot dead. Vivek Ramaswamy has accused Mexico’s leader of treating drug cartels as his “sugar daddy” and says that if he is elected president, “there will be a new daddy in town.” Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner for the 2024 nomination and long the person who …

US announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers
1 year, 5 months ago

US announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration took aim Tuesday at the fentanyl trafficking threat, announcing a series of indictments and sanctions against Chinese companies and executives blamed for importing the chemicals used to make the deadly drug. “And we know that this global fentanyl supply chain, which ends with the deaths of Americans, often starts with chemical companies in China.” Besides …

US announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers
1 year, 5 months ago

US announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers

The Independent  

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What’s behind the spike in fentanyl overdoses in Mexico?
1 year, 7 months ago

What’s behind the spike in fentanyl overdoses in Mexico?

Al Jazeera  

Fentanyl use and overdose deaths have long plagued the United States, but now Mexico is seeing a spike in overdoses from this potent opioid, with communities along the border being hit particularly hard. While the Mexican government still denies opioid use is a problem, those who suffer from addiction are facing stigma and a lack of public health support. In …

Mexico says it doesn’t have a fentanyl problem. New data reveal a hidden epidemic
1 year, 8 months ago

Mexico says it doesn’t have a fentanyl problem. New data reveal a hidden epidemic

LA Times  

As fentanyl has ravaged the United States, killing tens of thousands of Americans each year, Mexican leaders have insisted their country has been virtually untouched by the opioid. Mexico officially recorded just 19 deaths from all opioids in 2020, the most recent year for which data are available, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador contending fentanyl is exclusively a U.S. …

L.A. public health officials warn about fentanyl-tainted pills in Mexican drug stores
1 year, 9 months ago

L.A. public health officials warn about fentanyl-tainted pills in Mexican drug stores

LA Times  

Medications on shelves in a pharmacy in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Los Angeles County public health officials on Tuesday issued an alert warning Angelenos that some pharmacies in Mexico have been selling counterfeit medications containing fentanyl and other narcotics. “Due to fentanyl, we are seeing people overdose and die the first time they try an illicit substance or counterfeit pill.” Citing …

Editorial: U.S.-Mexico officials must put aside animosity to stop fentanyl deaths
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: U.S.-Mexico officials must put aside animosity to stop fentanyl deaths

LA Times  

A round of indictments against a major Mexican fentanyl trafficking ring last week presents an opportunity to hobble the multinational drug enterprise killing people on both sides of the border — but only if leaders in the United States and Mexico can stop sniping at each other and overcome a rift between them. Gen. Merrick Garland, announcing the indictments against …

Nevada lawmakers the latest to debate harsher fentanyl laws
1 year, 11 months ago

Nevada lawmakers the latest to debate harsher fentanyl laws

Associated Press  

CARSON CITY, Nev. — A Nevada state Senate committee heard two bills on Monday that could make it the latest state to significantly reduce the amount of fentanyl possession eligible for trafficking charges in response to the largest overdoses crisis in U.S. history. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro’s bill gives illicit fentanyl its own substance category and prosecutes “knowingly …

US warns about fake, dangerous pills being sold in Mexico
2 years ago

US warns about fake, dangerous pills being sold in Mexico

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. State Department has issued a travel warning about dangerous counterfeit pills being sold at pharmacies in Mexico that often contain fentanyl. The State Department warned that such pills are often counterfeit and “may contain deadly doses of fentanyl.” “Counterfeit pills are readily advertised on social media and can be purchased at small, non-chain pharmacies in …

Mexican president floats fentanyl ban, faults US drug policy
2 years ago

Mexican president floats fentanyl ban, faults US drug policy

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president called anti-drug policies in the U.S. a failure Wednesday and proposed a ban on using fentanyl in medicine — even though little of the drug crosses from hospitals into the illegal market. But López Obrador said he would ask doctors and experts whether all use of fentanyl by doctors could be ended, as well, to …

Fentanyl testing materials will be legalized in Mississippi
2 years ago

Fentanyl testing materials will be legalized in Mississippi

Associated Press  

— Mississippi will decriminalize materials that allow people to test illegal drugs to detect if they are spiked with fentanyl, a highly powerful synthetic opioid painkiller. “This bill will help to save lives.” Fentanyl is not illegal and is used in hospitals nationwide, but it is also widely added to illegal drugs sold on the street and is blamed for …

Federal lawmakers call for travel advisory about fentanyl in pills at Mexican pharmacies
2 years ago

Federal lawmakers call for travel advisory about fentanyl in pills at Mexican pharmacies

LA Times  

Testing is done on an Adderall pill in Cabo San Lucas. Congressional lawmakers are calling on the State Department to issue a travel advisory warning Americans that some Mexican pharmacies are passing off counterfeit pills made of fentanyl and methamphetamine as legitimate pharmaceuticals. U.S. Sen. Edward J. Markey and Rep. David Trone sent a letter Friday to Secretary of State …

The deaths of three New Yorkers from fentanyl-laced cocaine shows the growing danger in the US drug supply
2 years ago

The deaths of three New Yorkers from fentanyl-laced cocaine shows the growing danger in the US drug supply

ABC  

On a single day in March 2021, three New Yorkers ordered cocaine from the same drug delivery service, then died after unknowingly ingesting fatal doses of fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid. For someone with low opioid tolerance, "even a tiny bit of fentanyl could be enough to cause an overdose or even a fatal overdose," Dr Wakeman said. "For a …

Mexican president to US: Fentanyl is your problem
2 years ago

Mexican president to US: Fentanyl is your problem

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Thursday that his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary. Ambassador Ken Salazar saying a meeting between Sherwood-Randall and Mexico’s attorney general was meant “to enhance security cooperation and fight against the scourge of fentanyl to better protect our two nations.” There is little debate among U.S. and …

'The US is now blanketed in fentanyl.' NINEFOLD rise in deadly opioid use across the western US
2 years, 1 month ago

'The US is now blanketed in fentanyl.' NINEFOLD rise in deadly opioid use across the western US

Daily Mail  

A company that processes drug tests has detected a ninefold rise in fentanyl use in the western US these past three years — showing the powerful opioid has now cast its deadly shadow across the whole country. This graphic shows the rise in positive urine tests for fentanyl of those receiving drug abuse treatment in different parts of the US. …

Mexico, U.S. officials call for action after investigation into counterfeit medicine
2 years, 1 month ago

Mexico, U.S. officials call for action after investigation into counterfeit medicine

LA Times  

Officials from Washington, D.C., to Mexico City have begun calling for action after an “alarming” Los Angeles Times investigation revealed that some pharmacies in Mexico are selling counterfeit medication laced with powerful narcotics including fentanyl and methamphetamine. “No one should suffer an overdose from a counterfeit drug, especially one sold at a pharmacy.” Jeremy Khan, a spokesman for the U.S. …

US says it seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill every American
2 years, 3 months ago

US says it seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill every American

Raw Story  

US law enforcement seized more than enough fentanyl to kill all Americans in 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday, underscoring the deep threat of the deadly man-made opioid. The DEA said it had captured 50.6 million fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl and 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder during the year, calling it the equivalent of "more than 379 …

As fentanyl drives overdose deaths, mistaken beliefs persist
2 years, 5 months ago

As fentanyl drives overdose deaths, mistaken beliefs persist

Associated Press  

Lillianna Alfaro was a recent high school graduate raising a toddler and considering joining the Army when she and a friend bought what they thought was the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in December 2020. “I felt bad because it was something I could not have warned her about, because I didn’t know.” The drug that killed her daughter was rare a …

Fentanyl, other synthetic opioids are driving deadliest overdose crisis in the U.S.
2 years, 5 months ago

Fentanyl, other synthetic opioids are driving deadliest overdose crisis in the U.S.

LA Times  

Portraits of fentanyl victims at an exhibit at the Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in Arlington, Va. Lillianna Alfaro was a recent high school graduate raising a toddler and considering joining the Army when she and a friend bought what they thought was the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in December 2020. “Two years ago, I knew nothing about this,” said Holly Groelle, …

Mississippi could renew effort for fentanyl testing access
2 years, 5 months ago

Mississippi could renew effort for fentanyl testing access

Associated Press  

— Some Mississippi legislators say they will renew efforts to clarify that people may possess chemical strips to detect traces of the deadly drug fentanyl. Delivering test strips to people is part of a strategy known as “harm reduction” that gives appropriate products to drug users to prevent accidental overdoses. Dr. Daniel Edney, Mississippi’s state health officer, said he wants …

Mexico seizes 'historic' half-ton of fentanyl at warehouse
2 years, 8 months ago

Mexico seizes 'historic' half-ton of fentanyl at warehouse

Daily Mail  

Over half-ton of fentanyl was seized at a warehouse in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, the government announced Thursday. The Mexican army and National Guard carried out an operation into the dealings of the Sinaloa Cartel in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and wound up seizing 543 kilos of fentanyl at a warehouse, the government announced Thursday The Mexican government revealed Thursday …

Mexico seizes ‘historic’ half-ton of fentanyl at warehouse
2 years, 8 months ago

Mexico seizes ‘historic’ half-ton of fentanyl at warehouse

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s army and National Guard announced Thursday what they called a “historic” seizure of over a half-ton of fentanyl at a warehouse in the northern city of Culiacan. “This is the largest seizure in history of this lethal drug,” said Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia, estimating the fentanyl had an illicit value of around $230 million. …

States look for solutions as US fentanyl deaths keep rising
2 years, 11 months ago

States look for solutions as US fentanyl deaths keep rising

Associated Press  

As the addiction and overdose crisis that has gripped the U.S. for two decades turns even deadlier, state governments are scrambling for ways to stem the destruction wrought by fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Meanwhile, Republican state attorneys general are calling for more federal action, while some GOP governors are deploying National Guard units with a mission that includes stopping …

California lawmakers target fentanyl as opioid overdoses surge
3 years ago

California lawmakers target fentanyl as opioid overdoses surge

LA Times  

California lawmakers are responding to a surge in fentanyl overdoses and deaths in their cities with a list of bills that include imposing stronger penalties for distributing the synthetic opioid and easing access to safer consumption and treatment. “I think it’s important for us as a Legislature to turn the page on that and act urgently now to protect our …

New Mexico bill allows testing to prevent fentanyl deaths
3 years ago

New Mexico bill allows testing to prevent fentanyl deaths

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico is allowing broad access to test strips that can detect the presence of the potent opiate fentanyl and potentially help avoid deadly overdoses, under legislation signed Monday by Democratic Gov. It also gives state health health officials new authority to intervene and rein in the spread of diseases like HIV and hepatitis that can …

AP sources: Tool behind crackdown on opioids could expire
3 years, 11 months ago

AP sources: Tool behind crackdown on opioids could expire

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has been slow-walking its work on the extension of a legislative order that would keep in place a sweeping tool that’s helped federal agents crack down on drugs chemically similar to fentanyl, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. In recent weeks, the people said, the White House and Justice Department leaders …

Mexico sees fentanyl seizures up 465%, denies making drug
4 years, 6 months ago

Mexico sees fentanyl seizures up 465%, denies making drug

The Independent  

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New Mexico adds opioid use to conditions for medical pot
5 years, 9 months ago

New Mexico adds opioid use to conditions for medical pot

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction. New Mexico health officials on Thursday expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state’s medical cannabis program to include opioid use disorder, joining several other states. At …

To avoid overdoses, some test their heroin before taking it
6 years, 6 months ago

To avoid overdoses, some test their heroin before taking it

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The newest tool in the fight against opioid overdoses is an inexpensive test strip that can help heroin users detect a potentially deadly contaminant in their drugs. “In the whole time I’ve been doing this, I’ve had only three people throw out positive samples,” said Tino Fuentes, an overdose-prevention outreach worker who has become a kind of …

A dangerous opioid is killing people in California. It’s starting to show up in cocaine and meth
6 years, 10 months ago

A dangerous opioid is killing people in California. It’s starting to show up in cocaine and meth

LA Times  

Maynor Garcia stands with the dog of his late brother Gabriel Dirzo, who L.A. County medical officials suspect died after snorting cocaine laced with fentanyl. Officials suspect the men died because the cocaine was actually fentanyl, or was cocaine laced with fentanyl, said Dr. Gary Tsai, medical director of the county health department’s substance abuse prevention and control division. “Cocaine, …

An Experiment Helps Heroin Users Test Their Street Drugs For Fentanyl
7 years, 10 months ago

An Experiment Helps Heroin Users Test Their Street Drugs For Fentanyl

NPR  

An Experiment Helps Heroin Users Test Their Street Drugs For Fentanyl Enlarge this image toggle caption Mary Harris/WNYC Mary Harris/WNYC In the day room at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction, which runs a needle exchange program in the Bronx, a group of guys are playing dominoes and listening to salsa music while they wait for lunch. "If you're doing …

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