Young people leading fight against opioid crisis in communities of color
Young people who are losing friends and family members are leading the push for more resources and training to help save lives.
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Young people who are losing friends and family members are leading the push for more resources and training to help save lives.
Employees plan to check the site's stock at least weekly, reloading supplies as needed. Eventually, the company hopes to expand the project throughout Minneapolis, asking for donations to make that hope a possibility.
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office is offering naloxone training to the community.
In Hennepin County alone, fentanyl takes the life of one person every day, according to Sheriff Dawanna Witt.
Jennifer Mayerle investigates Minnesota’s fentanyl crisis. Part 2.
One man takes WCCO's Jennifer Mayerle inside his addiction and overdoses and shares what helped him get, and stay, sober.
In our look at the fentanyl crisis, we turn to recovery and the hope for a brighter future. Derek Johnson takes WCCO's Jennifer Mayerle inside his addiction and overdoses and shares what helped him get, and stay, sober.
Mohamed Salad, 30, and Liban Husein, 35, were arrested and charged with first-degree possession charges for allegedly selling pills containing fentanyl..
Fentanyl test strips can detect the presence of the lethal drug in other kinds of drugs, a harm reduction strategy that can save people from the deadly opioid.
Fentanyl test strips can detect the presence of the lethal drug in other kinds of drugs, a harm reduction strategy that can save people from the deadly opioid and spare their loved ones unthinkable tragedy at a time when the powerful drug is killing Minnesotans and Americans across the country at an alarming rate.
WCCO brought five families together to learn about the loss and the reality of the fentanyl epidemic.
WCCO brought five families together to learn about the loss and the reality of the fentanyl epidemic.
The fentanyl crisis doesn't discriminate. It touches the youngest Minnesotans and its hold spans across demographics.
The fentanyl crisis doesn't discriminate. It touches the youngest Minnesotans and its hold spans across demographics.
Last year alone the Drug Enforcement Agency seized the equivalent of more than 387 million lethal doses of fentanyl. That's enough to kill every person living in America.
Last year alone, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency seized the equivalent of more than 387 million lethal doses of fentanyl. That's enough to kill every person living in America.
Police say a gun and drugs have landed one person behind bars after a crash Saturday night in the Twin Cities.
Plymouth police arrested a driver involved in a single vehicle crash after a ghost gun and fentanyl pills were found in the vehicle.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has intercepted 8,000 pounds of fentanyl chemical precursors in the past three months, officials say.
Dion Miller, 27, and Aaron Maurice Admir Harris, 29, pleaded guilty to assaulting a undercover federal agent on Friday.
Shaffer-Fraizer is said to have regularly distributed fentanyl pills in quantities ranging from 100 to 1,000 or more at a time on a regular basis.
Three individuals have been arrested after a two-year-old was exposed to a plate of a controlled substance and became unresponsive.
The Minnesota Poison Control Systems says it has been contacted about 66 children under the age of 3 who went to hospitals due to opioid exposure since 2022.
Leandro De Niro Rodriguez died after ingesting an oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl, officials said.
A 27-year-old St. Paul woman has pleaded not guilty to felony charges after her 7-year-old daughter died of a fentanyl overdose earlier this year.
