While Trump tries to top the Biden administration, fentanyl overdose deaths have fallen every year since 2022, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The Des Moines men distributed a total of 62,000 fentanyl pills, including to one person who overdosed and died. See their sentencing.

There were more than 100,000 overdose deaths across the United States in 2021 -- the most ever recorded. Authorities estimate around two-thirds of those deaths were related to illicit fentanyl use.

A day after President Trump announced a new 35 percent tariff on Canadian goods beginning next month, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada had made “vital progress” towards stopping fentanyl.

Opioid addiction has become one of the United States’ biggest killers, endangering public health, the economy, and national security. But closing the floodgates on fentanyl poses a significant ...

Forget tariffs. Another tool of economic statecraft is far better suited to the problem of illegally manufactured fentanyl.

As they struggle to reduce drug overdose deaths, policymakers across the United States are embroiled in a heated debate over creating and increasing criminal penalties related to fentanyl, a ...

The United States is being flooded with fentanyl-laced fake pills, exacerbating an opioid crisis already spiraling amid the pandemic. Last month, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA ...

The fentanyl problem in the United States is fairly concentrated in the eastern half of the United States, east of the Mississippi River. You look at places like Ohio, West Virginia, very hard hit by fentanyl, as well as New England. But then then you kind of scratch the surface, and you see that there's substantial variation in what is being ...