Two Republican legislators have proposed strengthening Washington's child endangerment laws to include fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Reps. Jenny Graham, R-Spokane, and Travis Couture, R-Allyn, ...
More than 400,000 pills containing the deadly opioid fentanyl were seized and destroyed by Mexico's Attorney General's office, along with six tons of chemical precursors for the drugs, the agency said ...
Recently, overdose deaths from synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, shot up around 2014 and sharply did so again from 2019 to 2022. After Oregon’s four-year experiment in decriminalizing hard drugs, ...
Detainees say drugs are flowing freely into the Special Treatment Unit for civilly committed sex offenders, but they aren't getting the level of addiction treatment they need.