Sacramento County To Hand Out Free Narcan In Effort To Battle Growing Fentanyl Epidemic
It's an issue so problematic, authorities say the rate of fentanyl-related deaths is now higher than homicides.
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It's an issue so problematic, authorities say the rate of fentanyl-related deaths is now higher than homicides.
Around 1 pm on Tuesday, October 5, detectives arrested 25-year-old man, Victor Corella for the possession of 4,000 counterfeit fentanyl pills, said the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.
Fentanyl smuggled into the Calaveras County Jail put an inmate and correctional officer in the hospital, authorities said on Friday.
A North Highlands man was sentenced this week to five years in prison for fentanyl distribution, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
A woman is on a mission to change California law after her brother accidentally overdosed without knowing what he was taking.
A bill aimed at cracking down on deadly fentanyl overdoses hit a major roadblock Tuesday, leaving a lot of parents furious.
A Richmond man was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for the possession and distribution of fentanyl through Solano and Stanislaus counties, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
A tragic trend is growing across the region — teens are dying from accidental fentanyl overdoses.
Authorities suspect fentanyl caused four inmates at the Sacramento County Main Jail to overdose on Thursday, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said on Friday.
Several Sacramento residents have been arrested in connection with a drug trafficking organization with ties to Mexico.
Authorities are warning residents after tests done on pills seized from a man arrested back in June revealed they were laced with Fentanyl.
A Woodland man has been indicted in the fentanyl-overdose death of another city resident in February and the distribution of fentanyl on two separate occasions after the death, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced on Monday.
San Joaquin County authorities say they've linked some recent fentanyl overdose-related deaths to counterfeit oxycodone pills.
An Elk Grove woman says a hospital mistake killed her mother, yet no attorney is willing to take the case.
The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office issued a public safety announcement after a chilling discovery in a drug case.
The Placer County Sheriff's Department said several inmates have been transported to local hospitals for suspected Fentanyl exposure.
As drug users are rushed to emergency rooms in record numbers for fentanyl overdoses, the DEA has issued an alert after the drug caused three deaths in San Diego.
Over the weekend in Chico, one man died and a dozen others were rushed to the hospital after overdosing on fentanyl.
A mass drug overdose at a home in Chico has killed one person and sent more than a dozen people to hospitals, police said.
Every 8 minutes someone dies from an accidental drug overdose. Most of the time, it's from fentanyl.
It's no secret that being a police officer can be a dangerous job, but now, officers are facing a new enemy that can be virtually invisible and deadly to their closest allies.
A toxicology report from Prince's autopsy has provided a more detailed picture of the cause of the singer's death.
Twenty seconds is all it took to kill 19-year-old Dustin Manning.
A puppy that collapsed after ingesting some sort of opioid in Massachusetts has survived after being given an overdose reversal drug more often administered to humans.
Soldiers in northern Mexico say they have seized a surprisingly large stash of the powerful opioid fentanyl from a truck near the U.S. border.
