Republican senators introduce bills targeting nitazenes, synthetic opioids potentially deadlier than fentanyl. New legislation aims to detect, classify, and sanction the threat.

Increasing numbers of people nationwide are abusing both methamphetamine and fentanyl; the new synthetic speedball is a very dangerous and even fatal choice.

The U.S. would cut in half the 20% levies on Chinese goods imposed in retaliation for the export of chemicals that make deadly synthetic opioids.

Two Montgomery County employees became sick Tuesday afternoon after handling a flyer that authorities say later tested positive for fentanyl.

The world’s first dogs trained to sniff out synthetic opioids have been deployed at UK border crossings to stop smugglers flooding Britain with the drugs.

Most of the deadly fentanyl that has flooded into the United States over the past decade is produced in clandestine labs by criminal groups in Northern Mexico, according to the DEA and DHS. They operate in Mexican cities and states near the U.S. border, and the chemists who manufacture the drug smuggle the ingredients they need primarily from Asia.

Two Montgomery County employees experienced symptoms after accepting a damp, pink-tinted flyer from a stranger, Montgomery County authorities say.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has seen an uptick in carfentanil, a powerful fentanyl derivative, in the state since the beginning of 2025.

A Pulaski County man was sentenced to 13 years in prison Wednesday on one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl resulting in death in connection with the 2023 death of a Little Rock man.

Marking what they called a “high water mark” in the effort to combat the region’s fentanyl crisis, state and local officials announced Wednesday that they had seized 50 million doses of the deadly synthetic drug in raids across Pennsylvania this year.