Venezuela Doesn’t Produce Fentanyl. Trump Is Targeting It Anyway.

Lawmakers and narcotics experts say that the Trump administration’s efforts to tie Venezuela to the U.S. fentanyl crisis are misleading.

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Judge to Approve Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy, Releasing Billions for Opioid Plaintiffs

Under the plan, the company will dissolve and its owners, members of the Sackler family, will pay as much as $7 billion of their personal fortune to states, localities, tribes and others harmed in the opioid crisis.

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Opioid Deaths Suddenly Dominate a Governor’s Race. Here’s What We Know.

Representative Mikie Sherrill, a New Jersey Democrat, said a firm once owned by her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, spread misinformation about opioids. His campaign has threatened to sue her for defamation.

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‘There Was a Death’: A Mother Fights for Justice in the Age of Fentanyl

After she lost her son to an overdose, Serena Fallon went on a quest to hold someone accountable for his death.

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Bronx Man Charged With Dealing Drugs That Caused Deadly Overdose

Estherlyn Frias sold narcotics out of his home, near where his children slept, U.S. prosecutors said. A Connecticut man bought fentanyl and cocaine from him and died 12 hours later.

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Texas OK’s $50 Million for Ibogaine Research

The state’s governor signed legislation to allow clinical trials of a psychedelic drug that shows promise for veterans in treating addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Ex-McKinsey Partner Sentenced in Obstruction Case

The consultant had deleted records involving McKinsey’s role in pushing OxyContin sales and driving the opioid crisis.

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Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports

The progress comes as the Trump administration is proposing to cut funding for many programs believed to have contributed to the improvement.

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Trump Budget Draft Ends Narcan Program and Other Addiction Measures

A $56 million grant to train emergency responders and supply them with the overdose reversal spray, plus other programs that address addiction, could be eliminated.

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San Francisco Rethinks Its Free Handouts of Drug Paraphernalia

Daniel Lurie, the city’s new mayor, is scaling back a program that gives away clean foil, pipes and plastic straws for fentanyl consumption. Nonprofits will have to direct people toward treatment.

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