fentanyl

Leadership for the Paducah Police Department say an 18-month investigation has led to the arresting and indicting 23 people from western Kentucky and southern Illinois for charges related to alleged fentanyl trafficking.

The state report shows that fentanyl accounted for more than 70% of all drug overdoses.

"He's breathing. He's talking. He's not snoring. He's saying, 'Please, please get off of me, I can't breathe.' That is not a fentanyl overdose. That's someone begging to breathe," an expert testified.

Officials in the Ohio Valley say recent increases in overdose deaths are largely due to fentanyl, and experts believe most of the powerful synthetic…

A Washington Post investigation finds the Ohio Valley is suffering the most from the surge in overdose deaths due to synthetic opioids, even as deaths…

The U.S. Senate has approved a bipartisan package to address the nation’s opioid crisis with more resources for addiction treatment and recovery and an…

Health officials in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia say the number of overdose deaths related to the opioid crisis continued to rise in 2017 as state…

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.

Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear plans to announce an initiative to combat opioid overdoses and deaths.A statement from his office says he'll make…

Health officials say Tennessee saw a record number of overdose deaths in 2016.A state Department of Health news release Monday says 1,631 Tennesseans died…