TOKYO – Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya on Tuesday assured the public that Japan is taking stringent measures to ...

TOKYO -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime will consider creating working groups with Southeast Asian countries, ...

New House cartel task force wants intel agencies to target fentanyl trade The U.S. intelligence community said drug cartels were responsible for more than 52,000 fatal drug overdoses in the space ...

Federal prosecutors say 16 people were arrested and over 800 lbs. of fentanyl was seized in an operation against a Sinaloa Cartel drug ring.

Should a fentanyl dealer whose customer dies in an intentional overdose face the same prison time as a dealer whose customer dies accidentally? Maybe, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday. In a ...

Some fentanyl dealers would be charged with felony murder under new bill Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death would be tried as a felony murder case under the House and Senate legislation ...

In some parts of the U.S., drug deaths have plunged to levels not seen since the fentanyl crisis exploded. Addiction experts say communities still face big challenges.

T OKYO: Japanese finance minister Katsunobu Kato said today that there have been no recorded cases of synthetic drug fentanyl being seized by the customs department, neither as illegal exports nor ...

A Maricopa County K-9 officer and his handler were hailed as heroes after a suspected exposure to fentanyl.

Some 30,000 fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned addiction experts, reversing decades of rising death.

The illegal synthetic opioid industry is built on surprisingly simple chemistry. Here’s the science behind fentanyl, and how underworld “cooks” put it to work.

A stealthy and efficient killer, fentanyl is increasingly finding its way into illicit drugs and into the United States. The high potency makes it ideal for smugglers–it takes up less space ...