Local and state health agencies are focusing on education and prevention in Mid-Missouri schools after evidence of the opioid ...

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Though incidents involving them are still rare, an emerging class of drugs called nitazenes has raised concerns among health officials due to them being more potent than fentanyl, the need for several ...

Hamilton County Public Health is alerting the community to a rapid increase in the region's drug supply of a group of dangerous synthetic opioids. The opioids, known as nitazenes, are the latest ...

(WGN) — Fentanyl is largely fueling the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history, but nitazenes are 20 times more powerful. Nitazenes are a class of opioids now found in pills and powder sold on the ...

A state-funded drug checking program in Massachusetts has found opioids up to 25 times stronger than fentanyl. In a bulletin, public health officials say the number of drug samples testing positive ...

FISHERS, IND — A new drug called nitazene, stronger than fentanyl, has appeared in Central Indiana. It was recently connected to a fatal overdose. The Hamilton County Coroner says nitazene is ...

Nitazenes, a family of synthetic opioids orders of magnitude more deadly than fentanyl, have not yet been found in Cole County, Sheriff John Wheeler said Friday.

The operator of Canberra's drug-checking service says a potentially deadly illicit substance detected over the weekend is so novel that its effects are not known. Operators at CanTEST believe it is ...

Nitazenes are a class of opioids now found in pills and powder sold on the street. And while Narcan can help reverse an overdose, it may take much more. Nitazenes date back to the 1950s when academic ...