Iran has developed chemical weapons based on synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, warns a US expert, powerful agents that could incapacitate soldiers or civilians when added to grenades or artillery.

Background: Fentanyl, a short-acting synthetic opioid, has a pharmacokinetic profile suited to fast relief of brief episodic pain. Objective: To characterize the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic ...

In the past two years, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have seized enough fentanyl to kill 2 million Americans, a top border official said. The acting head of CBP visited San Diego on ...

The deadliest drug of them all is the synthetic opioid fentanyl. "We respond to multiple overdoses every day," said Jeremy Woodward, Bellingham officer. Given the fact drugs are so easy for ...

Federal prosecutors have announced charges against a Lancaster man who allegedly used a drone to deliver narcotics to buyers, including a deadly dose of fentanyl that killed a woman in 2023.

The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office has arrested five people accused of dealing fentanyl in Slidell. Detectives launched two separate investigations last week. Detectives said on October 30 ...

CBS News Los Angeles Live More than 50 pounds of powdered fentanyl and nine pounds of black tar heroin was seized in South Los Angeles — drugs worth an estimated street value of over $4 million ...

Los Angeles police made a major drug bust this week, seizing enough fentanyl to potentially kill every resident of the city. The bust resulted during a narcotics investigation near downtown Los ...

This report is part of News4 and Telemundo 44’s Fighting Fentanyl series. Go here for full coverage. Edith Montalvan bought a birthday cake for her daughter Ashleigh, but the teen wasn’t there ...

The mother and grandfather of a 17-month-old Lancaster toddler who died of a fentanyl overdose have been charged with his murder. The grandfather, Jessie Darthard, told sheriff’s deputies that ...

His dad told him, “Ok.” And so began a night of revelry that ended with Ethan Bherwani’s fatal fentanyl poisoning. In the early hours of May 18, a nurse called Kamal Bherwani from his son ...

Fentanyl poisoning deaths have plummeted by nearly 20 percent, according to new data published by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). DSHS data shows that 1,925 Texans died from ...