A man from Hopkins, Minnesota, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for distributing fentanyl online, which resulted in 11 people fatally overdosing and also caused serious bodily injury to multiple others. In a Sept. 12 press release, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Aaron Broussard, 31, was convicted in March of 17 counts,…
Minnesota Man Sentenced to Life for Selling Fentanyl That Caused 11 Deaths
15-Year-Old Girl Dies From Drug Overdose at School in Hollywood
September 14, 2022
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—One girl is dead and at least two others are in the hospital Sept. 14, apparently victims of drug overdoses, according to reports from the media and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). A 15-year-old girl was found dead in the girl’s bathroom at Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood on Sept. 13 night,…
Law Enforcement Officials Warn That ‘Rainbow Fentanyl’ Could Be Targeting Kids Because It Looks Like Candy
Federal law enforcement has issued a warning to the public after police seized thousands of “rainbow fentanyl” pills, a brightly colored version of the highly toxic synthetic opioid, which authorities worry could be targeting children. To date, rainbow fentanyl has reportedly shown up in Arizona and Oregon. At the end of August, U.S. Customs and Border…
Record Amount of Fentanyl, Meth Seized in Arizona, Texas
The U.S. fentanyl crisis is being helped along by a Chinese city. President Joe Biden signed an executive order to boost biotechnology. It’s an effort to compete with China, but Beijing is taking action, too. California is banning foreign governments and companies from buying U.S. farmland. Books about sheep and wolves put a group of…
How ‘The Most Dangerous Opioid’ Works on Your Brain
September 13, 2022
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The United States has been in the midst of an opioid crisis for over two decades with the pandemic only aggravating an already looming problem. With words such as fentanyl, morphine, heroin, and opioids constantly being thrown around in the media, we can become fearful of these drugs that were once made and used to…
Fentanyl-Laced Pills Killing Teens as Pill-Popping Culture Fuels Crisis
It only takes a quick scroll of the Facebook page “Lost Voices of Fentanyl” to see the wake of devastation illicit fentanyl is leaving behind. The page, which has 19,000 members and grows daily, is full of the faces of loved ones lost and grieving family members trying to contend with the pain. If that’s…
Border Patrol Agents Seizing Record Amounts of Fentanyl, Meth in Arizona, Texas
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are seizing record amounts of fentanyl and meth in Arizona and Texas brought in by Mexican cartel operatives and foreign nationals trying to enter the United States illegally. In just five separate inspections ahead of Labor Day weekend, for example, officers seized 625,000 pills in Nogales, Arizona, which borders…
Texas Sheriff: Fentanyl Should Be Classified as ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
September 11, 2022
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Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson in Texas said that fentanyl coming across the U.S.–Mexico border should be deemed a “weapon of mass destruction” (WMD). “Fentanyl is poison that’s being introduced to our country. The illicit manufacturing of this stuff has just gotten crazy with the potency of it,” he told Fox News over the weekend. “The…
Border Patrol Agents Caught Illegal Immigrant Sex Offenders, Gang Members, Murderer in 3 Days
U.S. Border Patrol agents caught 10 illegal immigrant sex offenders, four gang members, a murderer, as well as a slew of deadly drugs, according to the latest report from Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz. Ortiz made the announcement on Twitter on Sept. 6, saying that border agents had encountered 2,690 illegal immigrants including 10 large…
Heroine Overdose Deaths Halved as Fentanyl Deaths Tripled Over 5 Years
Fentanyl has displaced heroin as the leading cause of overdose deaths in the United States. Not only have overdoses involving fentanyl skyrocketed over the past years, but those involving heroin have actually dropped by about a half, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There were nearly 110,000 drug overdose…
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