fentanyl

Last year, 17-year-old Zach Didier of Rocklin, California, died when he took what he thought was a prescription pain pill he purchased from someone he met on Snapchat. The pill ended up being a counterfeit with a lethal amount of the powerful opioid fentanyl.

This week, an Arizona family received far more than they bargained for when they bought a Glo Worm toy for their daughter — only to find that it was stuffed with a sandwich bag full of illicit drugs.

An Arizona family purchased a Glo Worm toy from a thrift store for their daughter and found 5,000 pills “believed to be fentanyl” inside.

Philadelphia health officials warned that the deadly drug fentanyl is partly responsible for a large increase in overdose deaths in 2020 that continues into 2021.

The CDC reports that overdose fatalities in the U.S. have spiked during the coronavirus pandemic.

An alleged drug lord is in custody following what police say was the biggest fentanyl bust in Delaware’s history. NBC10’s Tim Furlong explains.

Police arrested 28 members of a powerful criminal organization and seized enough fentanyl to kill 750,000 people in a record-breaking Delaware drug bust, investigators announced Monday.

Up to seven people were hospitalized, including five law enforcement officers and a tow truck driver, after a chemical exposure while attempting to aid the driver of a car who stopped on the Golden Gate Bridge Sunday, California authorities said.

A Montgomery County woman was arrested after her baby ingested methamphetamine and fentanyl, according to investigators. The 11-month-old child was treated and later released from the hospital

Mexican soldiers seized a huge drug stash at a house in the border city of Tijuana, including about two tons of methamphetamine, eight tons of marijuana and 131,500 pills containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

There’s a new device to combat drug-related deaths in Camden County. NBC10’s Stephanía Jiménez spoke to someone who lost a loved one to fentanyl.

A Minnesota medical board has disciplined a doctor who treated Prince for prescribing pain medication for the pop megastar in another person’s name.

Police said they found multiple medicine bottles around the family’s Bensalem apartment including one in the baby’s swing.

An 11-month-old Chester County boy nearly died when he overdosed on fentanyl after accidentally ingesting the drug as his two parents slept, having taken the drug themselves.

New Jersey lawmakers are taking a stance on the flow of dangerous drugs into our country. In Camden County, they announced a plan to crack down on fentanyl through federal sanctions against China. NBC10 Reporter Cyndey Long has the latest on how this legislation could impact people in our area.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized around $150 million worth of opioids from two men in New Jersey, the agency said.

An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced after being sued by a family alleging an improper dose of fentanyl actively hastened the death of one of those patients. The...

Fentanyl was present in 84 percent of Philadelphia’s 1,217 fatal overdoses last year, and in 67 percent of the state’s 5,456 overdose deaths in 2017, according to a wide-ranging report by the DEA.

A 23-year-old man suspected of providing Fentanyl to a person who died of an overdose in Ventura County was arrested today at Cher’s home in Malibu.

Rapper Mac Miller was found dead in his California apartment Friday, according to multiple published reports. The rapper had been open about his substance abuse issues in his music and was arrested on suspicion of DUI in May after he crashed his car. He split with his girlfriend Ariana Grande that same month, and she cited his substance abuse problems…