Tag: fentanyl
New Fentanyl Laws Ignite Debate Over Combating Overdose Crisis
Three teenage girls were found slumped in a car in the parking lot of a rural Tennessee high school last month, hours before graduation ceremonies. Tw [...]
Why Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong About Crypto and the Fentanyl Epidemic
Notably, the drug industry does and does not include everything from the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of illicit substances, depend [...]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren points to crypto payments as facilitating fentanyl trade in China
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has suggested a link between cryptocurrency payments and companies based in China that provided precursors for [...]
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren Calls for Shutdown of Crypto Funding for Fentanyl from China
“Unfortunately, that is a mode that some of these precursor manufacturers and illicit drug organizations have used – the receipt of bitcoin payments i [...]
Fentanyl Crypto-Related Trade Worth Tens of Millions: Chainalysis, Elliptic
Elliptic, which published its report on the topic Tuesday, says cryptocurrency wallets attached to darknet merchants which sell fentanyl as well as pr [...]
El Chapo’s Sons Face Sweeping New Charges in Fentanyl Indictments
Federal officials announced a flurry of charges on Friday against the four sons of the notorious Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, saying the men w [...]
A New Strategy for Preventing Fentanyl Overdoses: Testing Drugs
Machines that examine samples of drugs can cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, but experts say they are an increasingly vital tool in [...]
Overdose Deaths Continue Rising, With Fentanyl and Meth Key Culprits
WASHINGTON — Deaths from drug overdoses continued rising to record-breaking levels in 2021, nearing 108,000, according to preliminary new data publish [...]
US suicides dropped however fentanyl overdose deaths spiked throughout Covid-19
After years of steadily transferring in tandem, two of America’s worst public well being tendencies diverged in the course of the coronavirus pa [...]