Fentanyl overdoses can happen in minutes, and the usual tools respond after the damage is already underway. A proposed vaccine tries a different approach: keep fentanyl tied up in the bloodstream so ...

Our oceans are home to myriad creatures whose lives are in jeopardy due to climate change and pollution. However, now experts are beginning to find new kinds of chemicals in the bodies of marine ...

Just a tiny amount of fentanyl, the equivalent of a few grains of sand, is enough to stop a person’s breathing. The synthetic opioid is tasteless, odorless, and invisible when mixed with other ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic. Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt, ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, Dec. 15, designating Fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. The order would allow the U.S. to expand even further its militarization of ...

The amount of fentanyl being seized by federal law enforcement at the nation’s border has decreased sharply over the past year as President Donald Trump has commanded the government to shut down the ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. There is no doubt that, in the wrong circumstances, fentanyl can be an agent of mass destruction. In the last decade, the ultra-potent ...

Re “America’s Deadly Fentanyl Delusion,” by David Herzberg (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 16): As a parent who lost my son to fentanyl poisoning, I read this essay with deep concern and disappointment.

Fentanyl overdose deaths plummeted across three New Orleans-area parishes in recent years, law enforcement officials said Monday as they touted progress by a federally-led task force targeting ...