A 23-year-old mother was arrested by local and federal law enforcement in Denver this week over a year after police in North Carolina said her daughter died as a result of fentanyl ingestion.

A multi-jurisdictional task force in Colorado made a major drug bust, seizing over 31lbs of cocaine and thousands in cash.

Stone likely had no intention of killing his friend when he gave him cocaine. Yet that is what happened, and for that, he’s going to spend up to five decades in prison. Judge Darnell Jackson imposed the lengthy sentence,

The man appointed by the Canadian government to help stop fentanyl from entering the United States said his goal is to totally eliminate the drug crossing the border. “Getting the number to zero is a goal and should be our goal,

According to authorities, the 16-year-old was picked up in the southwestern Ontario border city after being wanted for criminal harassment and failing to comply with his probation.

The drug supply is constantly evolving, and some experts suggest that a “fourth wave” of the opioid epidemic is underway, in which illicit fentanyl is more frequently mixed with other drugs.

A man who frequently supplied a victim with fentanyl has been charged with his overdose death, according to the Tampa Police Department.

Mayor Daniel Lurie plans on opening a new behavioral health center to help people struggling with addiction and mental illness stay off the streets while they receive care.

Before sewage gets treated at a Denver facility, some of it goes to a lab in Boston for testing. Officials say the samples make it possible to learn a lot.

A Minneapolis woman’s infant twins fell seriously ill after she fed them fentanyl-tainted formula, according to felony charges filed Wednesday. Anghel Esperanza Brown, 25, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with three counts of child endangerment in connection with her babies being rushed by emergency medical responders from the family’s home to HCMC’s neonatal intensive care unit

President Donald Trump has vowed to destroy Mexican cartels and end the U.S. fentanyl epidemic, but his sweeping freeze on foreign aid has temporarily stopped U.S.-funded anti-narcotics programs in Mexico that for years have been working to curb the flow of the synthetic opioid into the United States.