Fentanyl

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Monday night that removes fentanyl test strips from Florida’s list of prohibited drug paraphernalia, fulfilling a long-requested priority of public health officials and joining some 30 other states that have decriminalized the tests...

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) emphasized the role of crypto in fentanyl drug transactions during a Wednesday congressional hearing.  What Happened: Speaking during a Senate Banking Committee meeting, Warren urged for the enactment of her proposed bill, the Digital Asset Anti-Money...

Over 25 members of the Sinaloa cartel, including the sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, were charged on Friday in a fentanyl-trafficking investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. Of the three Guzmán sons, Ovidio, Jesús and Iván,...

Joanne Marian Segovia, a 20-year employee and executive director of the San Jose Police Officers Association has been charged with importing and distributing fentanyl, muscle relaxers and other drugs through a complex international mail scheme.  Segovia used...

When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the 70,000+ annual fentanyl overdose deaths of Americans the result of the US’s inherent “social decay” having nothing to do with Mexican cartels trafficking it across the border by...

As the opioid epidemic continues to take a devastating toll across the country, in Northeast Ohio fentanyl is now the most commonly used drug involved in overdoses. As the powerful synthetic opioid is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, it has also become a risk to first responders. A...

In his second State of the Union, President Biden touched on what has been called the most serious issue the DEA has seen in decades and doubtless the country’s most pressing issue: the opioid crisis and more specifically the flood of fentanyl into the U.S.  More than...

DEA special agent Jon DeLena recently told Congress that the drug crisis underway today is unlike anything he’s ever seen in his 27 years with the agency. He called two Mexican cartels the greatest drug threat the U.S. has ever faced. “The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels...

Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out a criminal justice proposal last week that should delight Florida’s conservatives as well as his inevitable national supporters who are already lining up behind the governor’s anti-woke, anti-gay, anti-Disney, anti-cannabis legalization and his recent...

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the billionaire Sinaloa Cartel kingpin who is serving a life sentence in a Colorado supermax prison is not happy with his digs. So, he’s begging Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to bring him...

Opioid drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: INSY) may soon go bust, the company suggested in the first-quarter earnings report it released Friday after the close. Following Insys' fourth-quarter print in March, analysts were largely bullish on the company, premising their optimism on...

Shares of Insys Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: INSY) plummeted as low as $4.10 Tuesday morning as the company faces a notable legal battle concerning its founder John Kapoor. Kapoor resigned from Insys' board of directors over the weekend after he was arrested last week. The executive is said to...

President Donald Trump catalyzed a selloff in opioid-exposed stocks Thursday as he declared the national epidemic a public health emergency and renewed the government’s crackdown on fentanyl. “I will be pushing the concept of non addictive painkillers very, very hard,” Trump said...

On the same day President Donald Trump was expected to declare the national opioid epidemic a public health emergency, a Boston Federal Court charged John Kapoor, former CEO and chairman of the opioid producing Insys Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: INSY), along with six other executives with a...

It isn't easy being a small pharmaceutical company banking on FDA approval of a painkiller product in a nation gripped by an opioid epidemic. Consider AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: ACRX), which has developed a fast, under-the-tongue delivery system for the opioid called sufentanil. It...