Opioid Epidemic

'Tranq dope,' a mixture of fentanyl and Xylazine, is causing overdoses in major cities like Philly.

The Biden administration moved Friday to require patients see a doctor in person before getting attention deficit disorder medication or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the drugs against the backdrop of a deepening opioid crisis.

The animal sedative xylazine is flooding the illegal opioid market causing overdose, death and worse.

Meanwhile, U.S. life expectancy also dropped in 2021 to about 76 years, 5 months — a decrease of 0.6 years from 2020, the CDC said.

The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers.

"Instead of planning our child's first birthday we have to plan a funeral for our child," she said. "We have been told several different stories from the babysitter herself."

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said its narcotics unit recently found enough fentanyl inside a home that could reportedly kill up to 1.5 million people.

Police responded to the junior high after the school reported that a student was in possession of about 150 fentanyl pills disguised as Percocet.

The colorful narcotics were seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 18 different states this month alone.

Robert Gilliam says he and his wife are putting drug dealers on notice after their 22-year-old daughter died from an overdose.

The Ohio counties convinced the jury that the three pharmacies played an outsized role in creating a public nuisance in the way they dispensed pain medication.