fentanyl

Upstate New York Poison Center medical director Dr. Vincent Calleo discusses the drug fentanyl and overdose deaths. Neuroscientist Stephen Glatt helps put the completion of the human genome into perspective. Rehabilitation psychologist Debbie Spinks explains the symptoms of a concussion.

In its first public safety alert in six years, the Drug Enforcement Administration says many counterfeit prescription drugs sold online contain a potentially lethal dose of the opioid.

Last year, Onondaga County had more fentanyl and fentanyl with heroin-related deaths than any other year, going back nearly a decade. The numbers are continuing to climb, as health officials say fentanyl is being put into a variety of other substances.

New research shows the use of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl spreading fast in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Seattle. Chinese companies are routing the street drug through cartels in Mexico.

The traffickers were caught with 11.9 kilograms of fentanyl — enough to kill nearly 6 million people, by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's standard.

Following a promise to the U.S., China announced that it would treat all fentanyl as illegal in an effort to more tightly regulate how many variants of…

New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced the takedown of two drug rings and the arrest of 65 people in the trafficking of heroin, fentanyl…

A series of heroin overdoses have occurred in Oneida County recently, including seven overdoses in a 24-hour period. Five people have died and more than…

Some drug users in central and northern New York are using tiny test strips to determine if the heroin or cocaine they are about to shoot up contains…

Local law enforcement agencies are hoping Congress passes legislation that would allow funding for some cutting edge technology that identifies lethal…