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Iran has developed fentanyl-based chemical weapons
Iran seems to have weaponized the pharmaceutical fentanyl. It may have given these chemical weapons…
Michael Peck
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TD Bank falls 8% after it faces $3 billion fine and growth caps over charges of enabling fentanyl-linked money laundering scheme
A Chinese drug cartel that was selling fentanyl bribed TD Bank branch employees in New York and New…
Matthew Fox
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An OpenAI investor says TikTok is China's 'programmable fentanyl,' a CCP-controlled tool used to manipulate US citizens
"TikTok uses an algorithm powered by advanced artificial intelligence. And it is in the hands of th…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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From test strips to hotlines, how to protect against fentanyl and treat a drug addiction
Some Wall Street professionals are turning to drugs to help them perform better at work. But there …
Bianca Chan
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China is helping the US deal with its massive fentanyl problem — sort of
The DEA says China is a primary source for fentanyl precursors, but experts told BI a crackdown by …
Matthew Loh
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Up to 10 hospital patients in Oregon died from tap water injections instead of fentanyl: report
Police are investigating a series of deaths at an Oregon hospital reportedly caused by infections f…
Rebecca Rommen
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The global synthetic drugs crisis has hit West Africa, where people are digging up human bones to make a drug called 'kush'
An African city has had to put police guards on the cemeteries amid fears drug addicts are robbing …
Rebecca Rommen
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Officials say a toddler ingested and died of a fentanyl overdose in an Airbnb. Her parents are now suing the company.
A 19-month-old girl's family said she died after overdosing on fentanyl that she ingested during he…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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A major investigation in Arizona yielded $13 million worth of drugs, including 30 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl
Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more po…
Aditi Bharade
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A 10-month-old baby almost died after accidentally eating fentanyl on a playground
The baby was crawling in the grass at a park in San Francisco, putting leaves in his mouth when sud…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Fentanyl test strips save lives — but in these 10 states they are illegal
Fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and has increasingly been added to the illegal drug…
Leah Rosenbaum
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El Chapo's son, an alleged major trafficker of fentanyl and other drugs, was arrested by Mexican authorities in an armed overnight raid: report
Ovidio Guzman was previously detained in 2019, but was quickly released after a shootout between ca…
Lloyd Lee
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The DEA says drug cartels are putting fentanyl in candy to sell to kids. Cartel operatives say it's 'actually the opposite.'
"Why would we want to make kids addicts? What good would that do to us?" an operative with Mexico's…
Luis Chaparro
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DC dealers held 'flash sale' to get rid of lethal batch of fentanyl-laced drugs, feds say
Police believe Sheldon Marbley and Shameka Hayes sold crack that resulted in at least nine fatal ov…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Bronx daycare where suspected fentanyl death occurred had a 'trap floor' filled with narcotics, police say
Following a child's suspected fentanyl death at a Bronx daycare, police found a trap floor in the f…
Sebastian Cahill
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Fentanyl spread through air vents at an Ohio detention center, sending 7 people, including corrections officers, to a hospital, authorities say
The victims were identified as three corrections officers and four juveniles. Authorities are condu…
Taylor Ardrey
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6 West Point cadets were taken to the hospital in Florida after overdosing on fentanyl-laced cocaine
Four people went into cardiac arrest after ingesting fentanyl-laced cocaine and two others got sick…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Crypto is funding businesses in China that fuel the fentanyl trade, Senator Elizabeth Warren says
Crypto could be used for payment in $540 billion worth of fentanyl supply from China, according to …
Jennifer Sor
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A teen was charged with murder after a 12-year-old girl died from a fentanyl overdose. A legal expert said that kind of charge is rare because it's hard to prove.
California prosecutors alleged that a 16-year-old sold a fentanyl-laced pill to the girl and she di…
Natalie Musumeci
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More people may have overdosed from fentanyl than know it because emergency rooms rarely screen for the drug: study
Most patients hospitalized for an overdose are screened with a 1980s toxicology test that doesn't i…