Exposure to fentanyl-contaminated heroin and overdose risk among illicit opioid users in Rhode Island: A mixed methods study. Carroll JJ, Marshall BDL, Rich JD, Green TC. Int J Drug Policy. 2017 Jun 1. pii: S0955-3959(17)30127-5. doi: 10.1016/j....

London/UK. EVIDENCE OF HARM FROM FENTANYL-CONTAMINATED HEROIN This alert advises of the availability of, and harms from, heroin that has been mixed with fentanyl or carfentanyl, both unusually potent synthetic opioids. There is significant evide...

Anonymous online sales are surging, and people are dying. Despite dozens of arrests, new merchants — many based in Asia — quickly pop up. As the nation’s opioid crisis worsens, the authorities are confronting a resurgent, unruly...

The US opioid epidemic may be getting even worse. Preliminary data suggests overdoses are soaring, while law enforcement officials have been warned about the dangers of fentanyl after it caused a police officer to collapse. (New Scientist, 09.06.2...

Deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids (not including methadone), rose a staggering 72 percent in just one year, from 2014 to 2015. Government agencies and officials of all types are rightly concerned by what some are describing as the t...

A staff member began handing out the test strips out of desperation, to try to curb the overdose rates among the center's clientele. (The Fix, USA, 18.05.2017) https://www.thefix.com/bronx-harm-reduction-center-gives-out-fentanyl-test-strips-hero...