Category: fentanyl addiction

New Statewide Program to Help Florida Fight Mounting Fentanyl Overdoses

August 3, 2022
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—Florida is to get a new program targeted at suppressing the state’s rising death toll associated with fentanyl overdoses. Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the statewide initiative at an Aug. 3 news conference in Brevard County in which he said fentanyl “ruins lives” and has infiltrated “other substances” that have led to a number…

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12 People Hospitalized in New Zealand After Consuming Powdered Fentanyl

June 26, 2022
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Twelve people have been hospitalized, with some in serious condition, as New Zealand police investigate the discovery of powdered fentanyl that was sold as cocaine or methamphetamine. The people were hospitalized over the past 48 hours in Wairarapa, a region lying in the south-eastern corner of the North Island, with six of the twelve found…

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DEA Launches Fentanyl Awareness Day, Highlights China’s Role in Opioid Supply

May 11, 2022
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is marking May 10 as “National Fentanyl Awareness Day” in order to make more citizens aware of the life-threatening dangers posed by the synthetic opioid. “Fentanyl is killing Americans at unprecedented rates,” DEA administrator Anne Milgram said in a May 9 press release. “On this first-ever National Fentanyl Awareness…

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DEA Announces Fentanyl Awareness Day, Highlights China’s Role in Opioid Supply

May 11, 2022
Crime and IncidentsDrug Enforcement Agencyfentanyl addictionMexican cartelsNational SecurityUSUS News
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) marked May 10 as “National Fentanyl Awareness Day” in order to make more citizens aware of the life-threatening dangers posed by the synthetic opioid. “Fentanyl is killing Americans at unprecedented rates,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in a May 9 statement. “On this first-ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day, please…

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