Opioids

Keep the following in mind if you find yourself responding to a possible child overdose

After finding the man not breathing inside a home, the officer is seen administering Narcan and performing chest compressions

This most recent offense marks the fourth time in 2022 that Stephen Joel Horton was arrested — and ninth time since 2017

"There's a belief that if you touch fentanyl that you could receive a lethal dose or you could get exposed to fentanyl to the skin ... I've never heard of a case of that happening."

William Jones was hit with drug trafficking charges after his girlfriend's brother was found dead from an apparent overdose in his home

The suspect tried to go through TSA screening “with several bags of candy and miscellaneous snacks with the intent of boarding a plane,” deputies said

Vine Grove Police Chief Kenneth Mattingly got the idea for the vending machine after a call officers responded to earlier this year

"Using happy colors to make a deadly drug seem fun and harmless is a new low, even for the Mexican cartels."

"We need Narcan on the streets and in the jail so, obviously, it's a concern to us when that supply may be cut off."

Since the DA's office filed a murder charge for a fentanyl-related death in Feb. 2021, prosecutors have pursued cases against 19 defendants suspected in 20 deaths

Sheriff: "We are in a war we're not winning. Americans have to stand up and say these social media companies are complicit in these deaths"

Drug dealers and users are using cookie emojis to order large batches of drugs or a tree leaf emoji to inquire if someone is selling marijuana

District officials also announced plans to create a safety task force, led by the LAPD, to use data to map out where and how frequently overdose incidents are occurring

"These traffickers and dealers eyeing New York City for rainbow fentanyl drops are showing all of us their true colors: to target kids."

Naloxone will be provided by the county's Department of Public Health at no cost to the district