Fentanyl

Sen. Sherrod Brown is introducing a bill tomorrow to provide funding for devices that detect fentanyl. The POWER Act would provide funds for portable...

The Franklin County Coroner's office released preliminary numbers on overdose deaths in 2017 in the county. Last year, 520 people died from drug…

The powerful opioid fentanyl is showing up in batches of cocaine, threatening a new wave of opioid overdoses. Some doctors, drug users and law enforcement wonder if the contamination is deliberate.

The Franklin County Coroner's Office has recorded a "dramatic increase" in overdose deaths, a total of 18 in one week. That's about 2.5 deaths per day -…

New research finds that fentanyl is far more common than heroin in overdose deaths in Indianapolis and that blacks are particularly affected. In 2017,...

Updated March 9, 2018 at 4:55 p.m. Nine of 12 individuals charged in U.S. District Court in Ohio in a narcotics and money laundering scheme are in...

Opioid overdose deaths among middle-aged black men have increased 245 percent in the past three years in Washington, D.C.

A mother says her son would still be alive if the state had a law that sent people back to jail if they fail a drug test while on parole. Currently,…

U.S. Sen. Rob Portman is ratcheting up pressure on the Postal Service to help track the flow of synthetic opioids primarily from China to the U.S.A report…

Congress is sending a bill to the president in their push to address the nation’s drug epidemic. The legislation will give border agents access to…