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The bill would increases penalties, but doesn’t address addiction treatment
The bill targets fentanyl-related substances, but illegally manufactured fentanyl is far more prevalent and kills more people ...
Can the US ban them all? China just identified a quadrillion possible fentanyl compounds
As the US struggles to keep ahead of the deadly fentanyl trade, Chinese scientists create a simple way to identify new ...
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HALT Fentanyl Act Clears Senate, Poised to Become Law
The bill would set quantity-based mandatory minimum sentences for convictions involving fentanyl-related substances.
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The closest hospital vs. the one people actually deliver at
In today's Morning Rounds newsletter, proposed cuts to cancer research under the Trump administration, a fake CDC page with ...
Center for Forensic Science Research lays off 30% of staff amid federal funding uncertainty
A Montgomery County nonprofit has laid off 30% of its staff after $2.1 million in grants were frozen by the federal ...
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'All fentanyl, all the time': How the deadly drug became Canada's public enemy No. 1
Fentanyl was invented in 1960 by Belgium ... The colourful brand name was Sublimaze. Its molecular structure allowed it to cross the blood-brain barrier more easily than morphine-based drugs ...
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Street dealers switch to opioids more potent than fentanyl
a synthetic opioid that is up to three times more potent than fentanyl. "We will not allow drug dealers to hide behind novel changes to the chemical structure of drugs to avoid prosecution," then ...
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Street dealers switch to opioids more potent than fentanyl
Street dealers across the U.S. are adding potent synthetic opioids to drug supplies in what federal officials say could be another deadly chapter in the nation's ...