Scientists are testing a new kind of defense against the deadliest drug in the U.S. overdose crisis: a vaccine designed to block fentanyl before it ever reaches the brain. Instead of reversing an ...
Researchers are closing in on a new kind of protection against the deadliest drug in the United States: a vaccine that trains the immune system to trap fentanyl before it reaches the brain. If early ...
A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it if she had any clean needles or naloxone, a medication that can reverse the ...
On Dec. 15, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an unprecedented executive order “designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.” Under federal law, fentanyl is a licit — not an illicit — drug.