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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Local law enforcement agencies are hoping Congress passes legislation that would allow funding for some cutting edge technology that identifies lethal…
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The Onondaga County Legislature is in the process of hiring legal counsel to sue opioid manufacturers and distributors over the costs of the heroin and…
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The number of heroin-related overdoses continues to rise in upstate, including in central New York. Now one agency that helps addicts is putting more…