Fentanyl

Between 2011 and 2016, drug overdose deaths in the United States involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl dramatically increased, according to a report released Thursday.

The powerful painkiller has led to a considerable spike in overdoses in some border cities, but users are finding little support in trying to combat the scourge.

A new study suggests drug-company practices helped create the current epidemic.

Drugs enter through official ports and Border Patrol checkpoints, not through the open land where walls might be built.

There are real reasons to debate whether it's worth opening these facilities in communities, but Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein instead relies on unscientific fear-mongering.

Officials in Nebraska used fentanyl to execute a death row inmate on Tuesday, marking the first time the powerful opioid has been used to carry out the death penalty in the United States.

Farmers in Colombia have been ramping up their coca planting and now seem ready to produce cocaine in unprecedented amounts, according to the DEA.

Over 63,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016.

Research is beginning to show that cheap strips can accurately detect deadly fentanyl, and encourages people to get high more cautiously.

It looks like the marketplace for illicit drugs is getting more competitive.

Pacific Standard looks at naloxone access and Good Samaritan laws nationwide.

Vancouver has begun offering users instant test strips to verify whether their illegal drugs contain fentanyl.

How the American opiate epidemic was started by one pharmaceutical company.